Cloud (Azure)
Azure services, microservices, serverless, Service Bus, AKS, App Service — how real systems run in production on Microsoft cloud.
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Event-Driven AI: Building Async Pipelines for LLM Workloads
Service Bus, Event Grid, and queue-based orchestration for AI tasks that don't belong in the request-response path.
Azure Functions in 2026: Flex Consumption, Isolated Worker, and Identity Everywhere
Move off in-process .NET and legacy Consumption — Flex Consumption + isolated worker, identity-based connections, Event Grid blob triggers, and concurrency tuned to the trigger.
Azure App Service: Premium V4, Slots, Easy Auth, and Key Vault References
Deployment slots for blue/green, system identity + Key Vault references, Easy Auth with Entra, and when App Service is the wrong answer.
AKS in 2026: Automatic, Workload Identity, and the Cluster You Actually Want
AKS Automatic vs Standard, Azure CNI Overlay + Cilium, Workload Identity (Pod Identity is dead), Node Auto Provisioning, and a sane upgrade strategy.
Azure Event Grid in 2026: System Topics, CloudEvents, and the Namespace Tier
When to pick Event Grid vs Service Bus vs Event Hubs, how the validation handshake works, and the Namespace tier with MQTT and pull delivery.
Azure Service Bus: Queues, Topics, Sessions, and DLQ Done Right
Peek-lock vs ReceiveAndDelete, sessions for FIFO, DLQ replay patterns, Premium partitioning, and the SKU choice that matches your SLA.
Azure OpenAI in Production: Deployments, PTUs, and Identity-Only Access
The 2026 Azure OpenAI baseline — Bicep with keys disabled, deployment names that don't break, Standard vs PTU sizing, and content filter handling.