Devops

First post in a two-part series on Platform Engineering on Azure. If your developers still need tickets, handoffs, or tribal knowledge to get a usable environment, your delivery system is slower than your codebase. Platform Engineering is how you fix that. The goal is not to hide infrastructure from developers. The goal is to package infrastructure, security, and observability into a self-service product developers can trust. On Azure, that means combining Microsoft Dev Center, Azure Deployment Environments, Bicep, and a shared runtime such as AKS. ...

First post in a two-part series on Azure postmortems. Incidents are inevitable. Repeat incidents are optional. A lot of teams say they do postmortems, but what they really have is a short meeting, a vague document, and a backlog item nobody revisits. A good Azure postmortem is different: it is blameless, evidence-based, and tightly connected to telemetry. If you already use Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Azure Activity Logs, you already have most of the raw material you need. ...