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.
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Well-Architected Framework: Operational Excellence
Operational Excellence in Azure is the difference between deploying a solution and successfully running it. Learn how to design for observability, supportability, and continuous improvement using the Microsoft Well-Architected Framework.
Performance Efficiency in Azure: Build for Scale, Not Just Capacity
Introduction We’re four pillars deep into the Well-Architected Framework series. So far we’ve covered Reliability, Security, and Cost Optimisation. This week we’re looking at Performance Efficiency, arguably the pillar that gets the least attention until something goes wrong. And something usually does go wrong. The symptoms are familiar: an application that performs fine in testing … Read more
Azure Well-Architected Framework: Designing for Reliability
Reliability isn’t about uptime—it’s about predictability. In this post, we break down the Azure Well-Architected Framework Reliability pillar, focusing on real-world design decisions: RTO and RPO, redundancy vs resilience, dependency management, and how to design systems that recover when failure inevitably happens.
Well-Architected Framework: Cost Optimisation
The Microsoft Well-Architected Framework (WAF) gives us five key pillars to ensure our workloads are designed and operated in a way that’s optimised for the cloud. One of those pillars is Cost Optimisation, and yet it’s consistently one of the most neglected areas, pushed to the side until someone receives a rather large unexpected bill. … Read more