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What we have actually learned running enterprise platforms — written by the engineers who ran them. No gated PDFs, no lead-capture walls.

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Azure OpenAI: when provisioned throughput actually beats pay-as-you-go

When provisioned throughput beats pay-as-you-go on Azure OpenAI, how to find your break-even utilisation, and the three mistakes that make PTUs cost more.

LLMOpsFinOpsAzure OpenAIGenAI
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What an Azure landing zone should cost, and what actually drives the number

Realistic price bands for an Azure landing zone, the seven factors that drive the number, and the scope questions to ask before you accept any quote.

AzureFinOpsLanding ZonePlatform Engineering
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11 min read

Backstage vs Port vs Humanitec: choosing a platform you will still want in two years

An honest comparison of Backstage, Port and Humanitec for internal developer platforms: what each is genuinely good at, and how to choose between them.

Platform EngineeringIDPBackstageDevOps
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The 31% problem: where Azure budgets actually leak, and how to plug each hole

A field-tested checklist of the nine places Azure spend leaks — idle GPU nodes, oversized VMs, orphaned disks, untagged resources — and the exact fix for each.

FinOpsAzureCost Optimization
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Do you actually need an Internal Developer Platform? A build-vs-wait framework

A practical framework for deciding whether your team needs an Internal Developer Platform now, what the minimum viable platform looks like, and the mistakes that kill IDP initiatives.

Platform EngineeringIDPDevOps
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From GenAI demo to production: the LLMOps checklist nobody hands you

The production-readiness checklist for GenAI workloads: model serving SLOs, evaluation gates, RAG quality metrics, GPU cost control and the governance your security team will demand.

LLMOpsMLOpsGenAIAzure OpenAI
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How we migrated 72 Azure subscriptions with zero downtime

The verification-gate methodology behind a zero-downtime tenant migration across 72 production Azure subscriptions: wave planning, SLA guardrails, tested rollbacks and live telemetry.

AzureMigrationSRECase Study
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