Container Apps vs AKS is usually settled by habit. Microsoft names two narrow reasons to need AKS, and neither is that the application is cloud-native.
Managed service vs project delivery model
Managed service vs project gets treated as a commercial choice. It is an operating model decision, and a project cannot deliver the central layer at all.
Azure messaging services: the choice is command or event
Choosing between Azure messaging services starts with one question: is this a command or an event? Answer that and the product choice mostly makes itself.
Azure subscription design: four triggers, none of them regional
Azure subscription design has four triggers for a new subscription, and none of them is a region. What a subscription is really a boundary for, and why.
Azure cost optimisation starts at provisioning, not at the invoice
Azure cost optimisation is usually treated as a reporting problem. It is a provisioning problem. The controls that stop spend drifting before it starts.
Azure landing zone accelerator or custom build: which path fits your team
An Azure landing zone accelerator deploys Microsoft’s reference architecture as code. When that is the right call, when a custom build is, and what decides it.
Azure Data Factory at scale
Azure Data Factory (ADF) is Microsoft’s cloud-native ETL/ELT service, but scaling from 10 to 1,000+ pipelines requires architectural patterns that most…
Enterprise Azure VMware solution
This framework represents a synthesis of 50+ enterprise Azure VMware Solution (AVS) deployments, distilling production lessons into prescriptive technical…
Databricks on Azure: enterprise lakehouse architecture
The modern data stack has converged on a single architectural truth: the lakehouse.