Posts tagged with "Azure"

A practical pattern for rotating Azure secrets with zero downtime using Managed Identity, Key Vault rotation policies, and versioned references — including the common mistakes that cause rotation-induced outages.

A 2026 comparison of Bicep and Terraform for Azure — state management, provider coverage, drift detection, module ecosystems, team-scale considerations, and an honest recommendation matrix for different team shapes.

A grounded comparison of the three multi-tenant patterns on Azure — pool, silo, and bridge — on isolation, cost, blast radius, data sovereignty, and operational complexity. Plus concrete Prisma schema patterns for each.

A 2026 snapshot of the Azure Sweden Central region — which services are fully available, latency numbers from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö, the residency nuances that matter for GDPR, and how to plan a migration from West Europe.

The honest cost model for self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Azure — break-even math against hosted runners, when self-hosting is a trap, and the ephemeral scaleset architecture that keeps them safe in production.

Microsoft renamed Azure Cognitive Search to Azure AI Search in late 2023 and added substantial vector, semantic, and agentic-retrieval capabilities. Manufacturing teams running legacy Cognitive Search deployments need a structured migration plan — not a like-for-like upgrade, but a targeted modernisation of the features that matter most.