Workload Identity Lifecycle: The Governance Gap in Azure
Orphaned service principals and stale secrets don’t announce themselves. What operating workload identity lifecycle in Azure actually requires.
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Platform Patching Responsibility: Whose Job Is It Really?
Patching still goes wrong even though everyone knows it matters. Because platform patching responsibility is never drawn clearly, and both sides assume the other has it.
Your Landing Zone Is a Snapshot, Not a Standard
Your Azure landing zone was current the day you deployed it. Since then it’s been drifting. Why landing zone currency is an operating problem, not a one-time build.
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.
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.
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
Building an Azure Service Catalog: Self-Service Cloud Infrastructure for Your Teams
Explore how to build a self-service Azure Service Catalog using IaC, DevOps pipelines, and governance to empower teams without bottlenecks.
Azure Migration: Why Your Teams Must Transform, Not Just Your Infrastructure
The shift to the cloud isn’t just a technology or platform shift, it’s a whole new mindset. “We migrated 200 servers to Azure in six months. The technical migration was a success. Yet twelve months later, teams were still operating like it was 2010, costs were spiralling, and we hadn’t delivered any of the promised … Read more