Platform Operating Model: Defining Who Owns What in Azure
Ownership and access aren’t the same thing. Part 2 of the Azure Platform Operations series: a practical model for who owns what, and why it breaks.
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Azure Platform Operations: Why Platforms Drifts After Go-Live
anding zones fail quietly after go-live when nobody owns day 1. Part 1 of the Azure Platform Operations series: service tiers that stop the drift.
Tenant-Wide Consent: What You’re Really Approving
Approving an AI connector for Microsoft 365 doesn’t scope tenant-wide consent to your enterprise plan. Here’s the OAuth gap that lets personal accounts through.
Shadow AI: How to Spot AI Code in Your Estate
Shadow AI means Claude Code, Lovable and unsanctioned tools entering your estate unseen. Here’s what platform teams can actually detect.
Platform Design for AI Generated Code: A Governance Guide
Scanning catches what’s broken. Platform design decides what’s possible. A practical guide to guardrails, golden paths, and AI tooling.
What Your Pipeline Can Actually Catch: Building the AI Code Scanning Layer
AI tools generate code fast. Your pipeline needs to catch what they get wrong. Here’s how to build a scanning layer across IaC, containers, and application code.
AI Built It. Nobody Reviewed It. Here’s What We Found.
AI tools let anyone build production apps. Here’s what the platform team found when nobody reviewed the code — and what you need to do about it
Azure DevOps vs GitHub Actions: A Practitioner’s Guide
Azure DevOps vs GitHub Actions: a practitioner comparison covering pipelines, templates, federated identity, GitHub Copilot, and when a hybrid approach makes sense
GitHub Actions and Terraform on Azure: A Production Pipeline
Learn how to build a production-grade Terraform pipeline on GitHub Actions with OIDC authentication, self-hosted runners, composite actions, gated approvals, and drift detection on Azure.
Custom GitHub Actions for Platform Engineers
Learn how to build composite GitHub Actions that standardise deployments across teams. A practical guide for platform engineers, with a real Azure OIDC login action walkthrough.