Tag: cloud

New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure

The cloud landscape is shifting. As I see it, the demands facing organisations with mission-critical workloads—whether in manufacturing, healthcare, or government—have grown well beyond simple scalability. The latest updates from Microsoft Azure underscore a strategic pivot towards adaptive infrastructure, offering new pathways to balance innovation, resilience, and operational autonomy. In this analysis, I’ll break down... Continue Reading →

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Conversational Container Management: Copilot and VS Code Transform Developer Productivity

Managing containers has long been an exercise in juggling command-line instructions, deciphering logs, and switching contexts. The recent update to the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Container Tools extension marks a significant step forward, integrating Copilot directly into the developer workflow. This move reshapes how developers interact with containers, allowing for a more intuitive, conversational... Continue Reading →

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Making AI-Assisted Azure Development Reliable: The Azure Schema MCP Server

Let’s talk about a problem that anyone building Azure applications with GitHub Copilot (or any AI assistant, really) will have hit at some point. You ask Copilot for a KQL query or an API call, and it obligingly spits out code that looks plausible. Unfortunately, it’s often wrong on the details—column names, field names, schema... Continue Reading →

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When the Cloud Goes Dark: Keeping the Lights On 

In this week’s newsletter: a deep dive into the recent AWS and Microsoft cloud outages, what caused them, their ripple effects on businesses, and how (theoretically) to keep the lights on next time. As usual I also attempt to cover key Microsoft product updates (Azure, M365, Copilot) and a brief recap on our fortnightly (or... Continue Reading →

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Cloudy with a Chance of Insights: Agents, Arc, and the Art of Staying Certified

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when three Microsoft Cloud nerds get together with a list of topics longer than a compliance audit, this week’s episode of Cloudy with a Chance of Insights is for you. I’ll admit, when David said he had “a bunch stacked up,” I didn’t expect to need a second cup... Continue Reading →

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