Thoughts on Azure, networking, and cloud infrastructure
An honest comparison of Terraform and Bicep for Azure infrastructure in 2026. When each tool wins, where each hurts, and the hybrid pattern most real teams end up adopting.
Three Azure services now offer serious vector search capabilities. Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB for NoSQL, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL with pgvector each have a distinct sweet spot. Here is which to use and when.
Three serious options exist for building AI agents on Azure, and they solve different problems. Azure AI Agent Service is fully managed but opinionated. Semantic Kernel is Microsoft-native and enterprise-ready. LangChain is flexible but complex. Here is how to choose.
If your Azure OpenAI calls fail after adding a private endpoint — with timeouts, 401s, or connections that bypass the endpoint entirely — the cause is almost always in one of four places: DNS resolution, App Service VNet routing, NSG subnet policies, or SDK endpoint configuration. Here is how to diagnose and fix each one.
Prompt injection is the SQL injection of the AI era. Unlike traditional vulnerabilities, it requires no code exploit — just carefully crafted text. Here are the seven patterns attackers use and the Azure defenses that stop them.
