GitHub Actions architecture review gate for Azure pull requests
TL;DR: An architecture review gate is a GitHub Actions job that checks every pull request against thresholds you set for Well-Architected score, hig…
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Azure Container Apps vs Cloud Run: Which is Right for Your Deployment?
Introduction As cloud-native applications continue to gain traction, developers are increasingly looking for efficient ways to deploy their services…
Kubernetes 1.34 End of Life: What Actually Happens on EKS, GKE, and AKS
Kubernetes 1.34 reaches end of life upstream on October 27, 2026 . If you run it on EKS, GKE, or AKS, that date by itself changes very little. Each…
When Azure Verified Modules appeared, I had to decide what of my own work to throw away
When a credible standard appears next to work you already own, most of that work quietly splits into three piles you cannot tell apart by looking: t…
Voice Agents in Microsoft Foundry: Inside the Realtime Speech-to-Speech Architecture
Voice Agents in Microsoft Foundry: Inside the Realtime Speech-to-Speech Architecture (and Why Function Calling Is Harder Than It Looks) Why this mat…
I flew helicopters for a living. If I had to break into Azure again, I'd start with the Cloud Resume Challenge
Quick bit of background so you know who's talking. I didn't do computer science. I flew helicopters for a living for a few years, and at some point…
Foundry Local: What It Actually Means to Ship AI Inference Inside Your App, Not Behind an API
Foundry Local: What It Actually Means to Ship AI Inference Inside Your App, Not Behind an API Day 4 of the Foundry 100 Days / 100 Blogs series. Tabl…
5 Microsoft Tutorials: Copilot Model Swapping, DeepSeek on Azure, Rust, .NET 10 RC, AI Agents
This week's Microsoft-ecosystem signal splits into two buckets: AI plumbing you can wire up in an afternoon (model routing, serving open-weight mode…
MCP vs API Is the Wrong Question
Recently, I saw a LinkedIn post discussing " MCP vs API " and felt like we needed to choose one. But I don't think we do, as each option solves a di…
Disaster Recovery Strategies for AKS Web Applications Backed by On-Prem ML Services
Popular DR Strategies in Cloud: Backup and Restore (Lowest Cost, Slowest Speed) Pilot Light (Low Cost, Moderate Speed) Warm Standby (Higher Cost, Fa…
Migrating CI/CD from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions with Azure OIDC and ACR
Introduction As part of learning and preparing for a migration from Azure DevOps pipelines to GitHub Actions , I decided to build a small practice p…
One Azure Data Center Goes Down—Does Your App Go Down Too ?
Cloud platforms are often described as highly available and resilient. That can create a dangerous assumption: If my application is hosted in Azure,…
Azure Synapse Databricks: A Migration Playbook That Survives Production
Azure Synapse → Databricks: A Migration Playbook That Survives Production A field-style guide for Lead / Senior Data Engineers moving Dedicated SQL…
Safely Test a MySQL 5.7 -> 8.0 Upgrade on Azure
Upgrading a production database? Don't make production your test environment. A safer approach is to restore production to a separate Azure MySQL se…
Standing Up a GPU Cluster on AKS for vLLM
This article is Part of a series on running vLLM on AKS and walks through creating an AKS cluster with a GPU node pool, deploying vLLM onto it, and…
How I Built a Serverless AI Accounting App with AI assistant and Saved My Family from Spreadsheet Chaos
Link to the Source Code As a data engineer, I spend my days designing clean, optimized data structures. But at home, I face a much tougher crowd: my…
CI/CD for Azure Logic Apps Standard on a Private (ILB) ASE — Without a VNet Agent
How we wired an Azure DevOps pipeline to a Logic App Standard running on an internal App Service Environment, hit six real-world failures on the way…
How I Automated a 3-Tier Application CI/CD Pipeline with Docker, Azure & GitHub Actions
How I Automated a 3-Tier Application CI/CD Pipeline with Docker, Azure & GitHub Actions I recently completed a hands-on DevOps project where I t…
Mix and Match: One Agent, Three Clouds, One Protocol
This article provides a step by step comparison of the same research agent built three times, on Google ADK, AWS Strands and Microsoft Agent Framewo…
Three Clouds, One Brief: What Actually Differs Between ADK, Strands and Agent Framework
All three hyperscalers now ship an agent framework, and all three speak A2A. The protocol page will tell you that is the interoperability story fini…
Automate Email Verification in Playwright using Microsoft Graph API & TypeScript published: true
Automating end-to-end flows like user registration, password resets, or OTP verifications often hits a wall when dealing with emails. Automating UI…
Microsoft Fabric Now Encrypts Spark Temporary Data with Customer-Managed Keys;What It Actually Means
Microsoft Fabric has extended customer-managed key (CMK) encryption to cover temporary data generated during Spark job execution. This is not a mino…
Introduction to the Cloud-Native World with Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) - Series Part 4
Efficient CI/CD Pipelines for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS): Automation and Scalability In modern cloud-native environments, Continuous Integratio…
Introduction to the Cloud-Native World with Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) - Series Part 2
Digital transformation has led companies to organize their infrastructure and development processes in entirely new ways. To address the challenges…
User Connectivity: Making the System Scale with Event Hub Partitions, ACA, and KEDA
Part 3 of the User Connectivity Architecture series. Introduction The first post in this series described the pattern: a heartbeat on a timer, an Ev…
Distributed tracing for multi-agent systems with OpenTelemetry
Multi-agentic architectures can pose challenges from an observability perspective. Each agent within a workflow makes its calls to its own toolset a…
CryptoCabana: Azure Cloud CTF Walkthrough - THM Room
CryptoCabana: Azure Cloud CTF Walkthrough 🏖️ Introduction Room: TryHackMe - CryptoCabana Category: ☁️ Cloud Difficulty: Medium Objective: Exploit a…
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,…
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 AgentCo…
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 c…