Microsoft Foundry Turns Agent Memory Into an SRE Problem
From agent memory to production reliability: what Microsoft Foundry is teaching us about AI operations
Frank Garofalo
Cloud Solutions Architect & Data Engineering leader at Microsoft. I build production AI, data, and home-lab systems — Azure, Fabric, Copilot, Proxmox/Ceph — and write about what actually works. New posts weekly.
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