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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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.
GitHub Actions OIDC Authentication to Azure
If you’ve been following this series, you’ll know we’ve covered foundational GitHub Actions workflows and secrets management. Now it’s time to solve one of the most common questions I get when teams move from Azure DevOps to GitHub: how do you authenticate to Azure without storing credentials? The answer is OIDC, and in this post … Read more
Designing Azure Landing Zones and IaC
Building your Azure Data Center Foundation Traditional on-premises data centers are constrained by physical reality-limited space, aging hardware, and long provisioning cycles that drag through change management, multiple teams, and competing priorities across servers, applications, networks, and security. Scaling means racking, stacking, cabling, and hoping there’s still room in the hall. A modern Azure data … Read more
Is the Cloud Really Fault Proof?
Recent events have seen large-scale disruptions across two major cloud platforms – first AWS, then Azure. The high profile outages have sparked fresh questions about cloud reliability and design resilience. I’ve seen plenty of posts and comments on forums and LinkedIn suggesting that “the cloud is doomed” and that we should all go back to … Read more