Six posts of hand-checked rules, now checked by a rulebook. I ran the Cosmos DB Agent Kit against my own sample repo — here's what it caught.

Apple has published the design of Reference Image, an iPhone 18 Pro camera mode that signs pixel data at the sensor and develops it in Private Cloud Compute under an Apple signature. Developers on Hac...

Six rate limiting algorithms on Azure, measured with real load tests: fixed window, sliding log, token bucket, leaky bucket, and more.

Foundry Model Ledger shows what a Foundry model costs per 1M tokens in your currency, when it retires, where else it runs, and which of your deployments are affected.

AWS has told customers it cannot restore resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 availability zone in the UAE, or exclusively in the Bahrain region, after damage during the conflict with...

Microsoft Entra ID under the hood: token lifetimes, CAE revocation latency and PIM payload, measured on a real tenant with six deployable samples.

Cost only matters next to the value it unlocks. A practical guide to Cosmos DB agent memory cost: semantic caching, RU drivers, and pitfalls.

OpenAI has classified GPT-6 Astra at the Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework, a first. In expert-led testing the model found previously unknown vulnerabilities in a brows...

Default agent storage is opaque. A practical guide to Cosmos DB Foundry Agent Service — the enterprise_memory database, RU sizing, and roles.

Hybrid, GraphRAG, Agentic, Corrective, and Multimodal RAG, built against the same Azure substrate and the same fifteen questions. What the diagrams leave out, and what the measured numbers actually sh...

Recently, I saw a LinkedIn post discussing "MCP vs API" and felt like we needed to choose one. But I...

Is that webshop legit? Most of us have pasted a URL into a reputation checker at least once. The...

A practical look at Cosmos DB multi-agent state — LangGraph checkpointing, hierarchical partitioning per session, and change feed for agent handoffs.

Storing memory well isn't the same as retrieving it well. A practical guide to Cosmos DB agent memory search: vector, full-text, and hybrid queries.

The Microsoft AI stack as I see it: six layers, one governance plane, and how the new AI certification trail up to AI-500 maps onto that picture.

Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the u...

Before you write agent code, design the schema. A practical guide to Cosmos DB agent memory schema design: partition keys, data models, and TTL.

Microsoft Foundry's model router updates point to a model-agnostic AI control plane. Why enterprise architects should decouple agents from models.

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any la...

A 2017 Cosmos DB talk was dismissed as an expensive pitch. Here's why Cosmos DB agent memory now beats a stitched cache, SQL, and vector stack.

Cloudflare announced Wallets, giving agents a stablecoin balance and spending controls, though only handle claiming is live and squatting complaints have already surfaced. Payments run on x402, now ho...

Explore how agentic workloads challenge traditional assumptions in system integrations and transform operational dynamics.

The Client to APIM to Function diagram is right and incomplete. Six gaps that decide whether your Azure API design survives a security review, plus an azd sample.

Explore the concept of production readiness and understand what it truly means for your integration platform.

A practitioner's comparison of Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and Power Automate, covering integration realities, the Integration Account cost most guides skip, and why Power Automate is not actually Az...

Explore azure observability and its crucial role in managing production environments effectively with visibility in costs and performance.

Azure Functions handles event-driven data retrieval for RAG pipelines, parallel ingestion, the Azure OpenAI binding extension, and APIM as the LLM gateway. This post maps the pattern and the productio...

Durable Functions is the right orchestration layer for directed agentic workflows — predictable steps, fault tolerance, human-in-the-loop, and long-running execution. This post maps the patterns.

What actually breaks when building agentic AI on Azure PaaS: real errors and fixes from deploying 9 agentic AI design patterns end to end, not just the diagrams.

Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that fills @mock-annotated GraphQL fields with LLM-generated data at request time. It follows Airbnb's @generateMock in April and a GraphQL Foundat...

The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, and adds required method and tool-name headers so gateways can route agent traffic without parsing JSON. Reaction ...

The Azure Functions serverless agents runtime lets you build event-triggered agents as function apps. When to use it over Foundry Agent Service.

Naive RAG diagrams leave out four things that decide whether your pipeline works. Measured results on Azure AI Search, with a runnable sample repo.

The citadel-v1 AI Hub Gateway release reframes the accelerator as Layer 1 of Microsoft's AI Citadel Blueprint. Here's what changed and what to migrate.

Explore Azure governance and identity to ensure compliance and security in your integrations. Learn why they matter.

Microsoft released a dedicated AI Gateway tier of Azure API Management in public preview, with a control plane built around models, MCP servers and tools rather than APIs. It fronts Foundry, Bedrock, ...

Wiz Research disclosed CosmosEscape, a chain that escaped Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin sandbox and reached a platform-wide key granting read and write access to every database on the service. Microsoft b...

Logic Apps Standard now runs Managed Identity locally and in production. Here's why that closes a real Zero Trust gap and what RBAC still owes you.

Explore Azure data patterns to understand how integration impacts data storage and processing beyond just selecting a service.

Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; t...

Explore token economics in AI cost management and discover how the Citadel Platform implements these concepts effectively.

Hosting MCP servers on Azure Functions gives you three options: the binding extension, self-hosted MCP SDKs, and queue-based tools, and tells you which to use when.

Learn how to register an AI agent in Azure API Center using the AI Publish Contract pattern, and how it supports EU AI Act Article 49 transparency.

Airbus selected Scaleway as its sovereign cloud provider after a tender that scored protection against non-European extraterritorial legislation alongside technical capability. Airbus frames it as com...

Logic Apps Automation is in public preview. An architect's view of the new SKU, the governance boundary it introduces, a demo you can build, and what it cannot do yet.

Build a RAG-powered HR policy agent using Knowledge Base as a Service in Azure Logic Apps.

Azure Logic Apps Integrate 2026 announcements signal a platform shift. This post unpacks five announcements every integration architect should know and what they mean in practice

A configuration change in AWS's bill computation system showed customers estimated bills in the billions and trillions of dollars for over 24 hours. AWS's own alarms detected the anomalies but failed ...

Deep dive into five Citadel APIM gateway policies on Azure — token limiting, semantic caching, content safety, cost attribution, and PII redaction with real policy XML, live demos, and pitfalls from a...