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NIS2 in Sweden: The Practical Engineer's Checklist

Sweden's cybersäkerhetslag (2025:1506) took effect on 15 January 2026, and the engineering detail sits in the ordinance and the MCFFS regulations rather than the headlines. This checklist covers scope and the essential versus important split, registration with FRA, the eight supervisory authorities, the three incident reports and their deadlines, supplier contract clauses, and the Azure and Microsoft 365 controls behind each of the ten measure areas.

March 10, 2026748 viewsSecurity & Compliance

Document Pipelines for Manufacturing Compliance on Azure

ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 require controlled, traceable, and revisable documentation. A modern Azure AI Search pipeline can automate ingestion, audit-trail generation, and revision tracking without compromising the compliance posture. The patterns that work for aerospace, automotive, and medical device manufacturers share a common shape.

March 7, 2026669 viewsAI & Cloud Infrastructure

Bicep vs Terraform in 2026: Which to Choose for Azure

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.

March 5, 20263,371 viewsDevOps & Infrastructure

Agentic RAG Patterns That Beat Classic Retrieval

Classic RAG hits a ceiling when questions require multi-hop reasoning or query refinement. Agentic RAG — treating retrieval as a tool, decomposing queries, adding self-correction loops — routinely wins where classic RAG plateaus.

March 3, 2026741 viewsAI & Cloud Infrastructure

Multi-Tenant SaaS on Azure: Pool vs Silo, Honestly Compared

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.

February 26, 2026987 viewsArchitecture & Design

Passkeys for B2B SaaS: A Migration Playbook

A step-by-step migration playbook for rolling out passkeys in a B2B SaaS — from opt-in enrollment and conditional mediation, through account recovery and device attestation, to the failure modes that still catch teams out.

February 24, 2026668 viewsSecurity & Compliance

Automotive Technical Documentation at Scale with Azure AI Search

Automotive technical documentation is uniquely structured: ECU specs, wiring diagrams, service manuals, diagnostic codes, recall notices — all layered across vehicle platforms, model years, and markets. Azure AI Search handles this at scale if the index schema and retrieval pattern match the domain. This post walks the automotive-specific design choices.

February 21, 2026761 viewsAI & Cloud Infrastructure

Azure Sweden Central Deep Dive: Services, Latency, Residency

Sweden Central is a three-zone region in Gävle whose AI model list now runs ahead of West Europe, but the choice that decides residency, model currency and cost is the Foundry deployment type rather than the region. This deep dive covers verified service and model availability, the EU Data Zone versus regional processing distinction, what data residency does and does not guarantee, DR pairing with restricted-access Sweden South, PTU capacity planning and list-price comparisons.

February 19, 20262,347 viewsAzure & Cloud

Small Language Models On-Prem: The Phi-4 and Llama 3.3 ROI Math

When running small language models on-prem actually beats hosted inference — Phi-4, Llama 3.3, GPU sizing, Ollama and vLLM deployment patterns, and the honest cost math for Swedish data-residency workloads.

February 17, 2026689 viewsAI & Cloud Infrastructure

Swish Handel 2026: Integration Patterns for Node Applications

Swish decommissioned the v1 create endpoints on 1 January 2026, so a current integration PUTs to /api/v2/paymentrequests while still using v1 to retrieve and cancel. The engineering work sits around that call: five-year client certificates rotated out of Azure Key Vault, callbackIdentifier verification, the documented callback retry schedule, refunds that need a fresh UUID on every attempt, and a sweeper for callbacks that never arrive.

February 12, 20261,296 viewsPayment & E-Commerce

Structured Outputs vs Function Calling: Picking in 2026

Structured outputs and function calling solve overlapping problems differently. This post walks through the reliability tradeoffs, provider quirks across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Azure, and the decision rules that lead to the right pick.

February 10, 20266,281 viewsAI & Cloud Infrastructure

Hybrid Search for Manufacturing Knowledge Bases

Pure keyword search misses semantic matches. Pure vector search misses exact part numbers. Hybrid search combines both. This post explains the rank fusion and semantic re-ranking choices that turn a hybrid Azure AI Search query from "works on demos" into a production retrieval layer for manufacturing knowledge bases.

February 6, 2026812 viewsAI & Cloud Infrastructure