Azure Cobalt 200 Arm VMs and NC RTX PRO Blackwell VMs — New Compute Options for AI and Cost Optimization
New Azure compute options: Cobalt 200 Arm VMs and NC RTX PRO Blackwell GPU VMs.
Microsoft Fabric Apps + Rayfin: The Open-Source BaaS That Turns Fabric Into an Application Platform
Rayfin is Microsoft's MIT-licensed open-source SDK that turns Microsoft Fabric into a full application platform.
Azure Malaysia West: One Year Later — Lessons, Gaps, and the Road to Southeast Asia 3
On-the-ground assessment of Azure Malaysia West: what's live, what routes to SEA, latency benchmarks, and the JB region roadmap.
Agentic AI at Build 2025: Copilot Coding Agent, SRE Agent, and Project Amelie — One Year On
One year after Build 2025: which Microsoft agents are production-ready, how SRE Agent bills in Agent Units, and an adoption roadmap for Malaysian enterprises.
Git-Ape: Microsoft's Agentic Migration Framework That Converts AWS to Azure
Microsoft's open-source Git-Ape framework uses AI agents to read your AWS Terraform, extract deployment intent, and generate Azure-native replacements. How it works, what it caught in review, and when to use it.
Azure Site Recovery 2026: NVMe VMs, Shared Disks, and Performance Plus Replication
Azure Site Recovery now supports NVMe VMs, WSFC shared disks, and Performance Plus disks. Here's what's supported, what isn't, and how to configure each one.
Azure Resiliency — Building and Testing a Real DR Plan for Malaysian Enterprises
A real DR plan is only as good as its last test. How Malaysian enterprises can build and exercise DR with Azure Resiliency — AZ Down Drills, Recovery Orchestration Plans, and the Malaysia West unpaired-region trap.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 2026 — What Build Announcements Mean for Production Workloads
AKS Automatic managed system node pools, bare-metal preview, Anyscale on Azure, and the Ubuntu 22.04 deadline — what Build 2026 means for production Kubernetes.
Azure AI Foundry Model Catalog: Choosing From 10K+ Models for Enterprise Workloads
Microsoft's Foundry catalog lists 10,000+ models. Here's the decision framework I use to cut it down to the right one — with real pricing, deployment types, and a Malaysia West reality check.