GGísli Guðmundsson3h ago · 1 min readFinOps for AI Workloads on Azure: Tokens, PTU and Pay-As-You-GoOriginally published on Substack. Part 3 of my Azure AI landing zone series is about FinOps for AI workloads. Tokens are the AI bill most teams actually get, so the post covers: Picking the deploymengisli78.hashnode.dev
CCarlos José Castro Galante11h ago · 9 min readHow to trace and evaluate an AI agent in Microsoft Foundry, from the first trace to production monitoringMicrosoft Foundry splits agent observability into three capabilities, and each one answers a different question. Tracing shows what the agent did during a run, evaluation scores how good its answers wcarlosjcastrog.hashnode.dev
SStudy4Pass8h ago · 5 min readAI-102: The Azure AI Engineer Exam Is Not a Machine-Learning Exam — and That Is the PointA lot of capable engineers avoid AI-102, Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution, because they assume it requires a machine-learning background. It does not. AI-102 is an engineering study4pass-blog.hashnode.dev
DDaniel Powley1d ago · 19 min readBlueprint: How to become Microsoft Certified (Updated for Q4 2026/2027)Introduction Ready to validate your cloud and AI skills as we head towards 2027, but unsure where to start? Following the massive shakeup to Microsoft's credential portfolio throughout 2026, this updablog.atozazure.com
PPrateek Singh23h ago · 8 min readARM template to architecture diagram from a GitHub URLTL;DR: To turn a GitHub-hosted ARM template into an architecture diagram, keep the URL path and swap github.com for cloudeval.ai. Cloudeval reads the ARM JSON, looks for a matching parameters file, cr1Ecloudeval.hashnode.dev
AAbir Eltaief1d ago · 57 min readArchitecting for Resilience: Battle-Tested Reliability Patterns Across AWS, Azure, and GCP (Part 4/5)Series Foreword: Demystifying Complex Cloud Systems Through Design Patterns As an active Multi-Cloud Architect across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP—having recently earned my Google Cloud Certified Prscalability-patterns-modern-distributed-systems.hashnode.dev
MMahrab Khan1d ago · 3 min readMicrosoft Ignite 2026: Engineering Autonomous Agents, OneLake Pipelines and Enterprise AI SkillingEvery major release cycle from Microsoft reshapes how cloud and software engineering teams architect production systems. The key architectural message from Microsoft Ignite is straightforward: we havetechgreek.hashnode.dev
AAbir Eltaief2d ago · 38 min readArchitecting for Extensibility: Battle-Tested Software Patterns Across AWS, Azure, and GCP (Part 3/5)Series Foreword: Demystifying Complex Cloud Systems Through Design Patterns As an active Multi-Cloud Architect across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP—having recently earned my Google Cloud Certified Prscalability-patterns-modern-distributed-systems.hashnode.dev
MMUQTADIRMALIK QUAZI1d ago · 5 min readDatabricks now deletes unused OAuth secrets after 90 daysPicture this. It's quarter-end. The finance team's reporting job, untouched since the last quarter-end, kicks off at 2 AM and fails with an authentication error. Nobody changed the code. Nobody changemuqtadirmalik.hashnode.dev
AAbir Eltaief2d ago · 70 min readArchitecting for Performance & Consistency: Battle-Tested Data Patterns Across AWS, Azure, and GCP (Part 2/5)Series Foreword: Demystifying Complex Cloud Systems Through Design Patterns As an active Multi-Cloud Architect across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP—having recently earned my Google Cloud Certified Prscalability-patterns-modern-distributed-systems.hashnode.dev
