From 1.2GB to 24MB: How I Sped Up Our Next.js CI/CD Pipeline by 4 in One Afternoon
The Situation Our team's CI/CD pipeline on Azure DevOps was taking 15 minutes to complete on every push to develop. You'd merge a PR, grab a coffee, c…
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Foundry as Master, Bedrock as Remote: The Smoke Test Finally Passed
I wanted one specific piece of coverage: Microsoft Foundry (master) ├── MCP ──> live exchange-rate baseline └── A2A ──> Amazon Bedrock AgentCore…
Six Cross-Cloud A2A Paths, One Benchmark: How AWS, Azure, and GCP Agents Actually Work Together
Over the last six articles in this series I built the same currency benchmark six times, each time changing which cloud gives the orders and which clo…
Six Cross-Cloud A2A Paths, One Benchmark: How AWS, Azure, and GCP Agents Actually Work Together
Over the last six articles in this series I built the same currency benchmark six times, each time changing which cloud gives the orders and which clo…
Can Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Talk to Microsoft Foundry over A2A?
I wanted to test one specific path: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) | +-- MCP --> live exchange-rate tool | +-- A2A v1.0 --> Microsoft Foundry ho…
Subscription-per-environment was never the real question
Every landing zone conversation eventually lands on the same fork: subscription-per-team or subscription-per-environment. Pick one, defend it in the d…
Can Google ADK Talk to Microsoft Foundry on Azure? A Cross-Cloud A2A Benchmark
This article provides a step-by-step guide to building and testing a cross-cloud currency agent. A coordinator hosted on Microsoft Foundry in Azure ca…
A Practical Guide to Azure PostgreSQL: Migration, Replicas, and Tuning ☁️🐘
In this post, I summarize my hands-on experience completing the Microsoft Applied Skills: Configure and migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL asses…
Balancing Peak-Load Scaling and User Experience with CQRS
At 4:30 PM every Friday, thousands of field workers on remote construction sites log off and submit their weekly hours, safety checklists, and equipme…
Building a Custom Modbus TCP Client in .NET: What a Production-Grade Poller Actually Needs
Most Modbus tutorials in .NET end at the same place: install a library, call ReadHoldingRegisters , print a number. That is enough to prove a device i…
AI agents, meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator
If you use the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator, you probably know the local development loop: start the emulator, connect to it, create some resources,…
SDLC in the AI Era with Spec-Driven Development
AI can generate an endpoint, a test fixture or a deployment manifest in seconds. That speed is useful, but it does not solve the expensive part of sof…
Azure Logic Apps vs Function Apps: Choosing the Right Tool for the Integration
Two Azure services can look nearly identical on paper. Both connect systems. Both can call an external API, transform data along the way, and handle e…
Building Evaluation, Cost Governance, and Observability for a Multi-Agent System in Microsoft Foundry
This closes out the series' capstone: the multi-agent customer support system built across Parts 6-9, now hardened with evaluation, cost governance, a…
FaroIQ: how I built a 9-agent pipeline for nonprofits with Azure AI Foundry
I'm Carlos, a Software Design student at the National University of Catamarca, Argentina. This post covers how I built FaroIQ during the Microsoft Age…
Things I learned building my first multi-agent AI system on Azure + NVIDIA
I recently built a multi-agent customer support system on Azure AI Foundry and NVIDIA NIM. First time doing anything like this. Made four predictions …
Azure Databricks vs Microsoft Fabric: An Honest Guide to When to Use What
If you're building a data platform on Azure in 2026, you're going to be asked this question: Azure Databricks or Microsoft Fabric? Both run on Delta L…
I stopped watching Azure tutorials and passed AZ-900. Here's what I changed.
I had bookmarked every AZ-900 resource on the internet. Savill. Microsoft Learn. FreeCodeCamp. Andrew Brown. I'd watched probably 50 hours of content …
How I replaced three Azure emulators with one binary, added Key Vault and ACR, and cut my CI setup to a single step
For a while, local Azure development in my projects looked like this: Azurite for Blob and Queue Storage, the Microsoft Service Bus Emulator for messa…
Cinema Seat Reservation System — Part 2: Transitioning To Production-Scale and Deploying on Azure Cloud
Introduction This is the second part of sharing my journey to create a microservices-based backend system, in the previous part, I introduced the syst…
How I Built the Cloud Resume Challenge (And What Actually Tripped Me Up)
From Static HTML to Cloud Infrastructure: My Cloud Resume Challenge Journey When I first read about the Cloud Resume Challenge , I knew that it would …
Azure Application Insights: Monitoring, KQL Queries and Observability in Production
At 2am on a Tuesday, an IP address change in Microsoft infrastructure silently broke our entire integration pipeline at Blue Yonder. Messages stopped …
How to secure Azure storage with Managed identities for a web app
Introduction Building a new app is exciting but shipping an app with poorly secured storage is a headline waiting to happen. When developers build app…
I Built a Spaced Repetition Flashcard App and Deployed It to Azure for $5/month
A couple of years ago, I built a custom flashcard app. I had a huge list of words and sentences in Japanese that I collected in an Excel file. I wante…
When Kubernetes Isn't the Problem: Debugging External Dependencies in AKS
Introduction One of the most common mistakes during incident response is assuming Kubernetes is the problem simply because the application runs on Kub…
We thought we had location-based MFA. We had something else entirely
We thought we had location-based MFA. We had something else entirely Our CTO asked a simple question: when someone travels and signs in from outside o…
The 5 Conditional Access Mistakes That Lock Users Out (And How to Fix Them)
One wrong Conditional Access policy and your entire organization is locked out. No exceptions. Not some users — everyone, including you. These are the…
Azure MANA NIC Rollout: Could It Impact Your Aviatrix Gateways?
If you run Aviatrix on Azure, there is a slow-moving infrastructure change happening underneath your gateways right now that is worth paying attention…
I Built the .NET Roadmap I Wish I Had at the Start of My Career
Hi DEV Community 👋 "We’ve all been there: you finish a tutorial, the code runs, but you still feel like you’re missing the 'why' behind the architectu…
Using Microsoft Fabric Shortcuts to Avoid Duplicate Data Copies
Enterprise data platforms are really good at one thing: creating copies of the same data everywhere. Different teams copy the same curated folders int…