AI/ML
Azure Brain Lessons for Reliable Enterprise AI Operations
What Azure’s ‘Brain’ Gets Right About AI Operations: Reliability Is the Killer Enterprise Use Case
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.
AI/ML
Trusted Launch Azure AI Landing Zone Architecture
If You’re Standardizing on Azure for AI, Trusted Launch by Default Should Change Your Baseline Architecture
Azure
Azure Functions Skills for Enterprise Agent Architectures
Azure Functions Skills Is More Important Than It Looks: It Turns Serverless Into an Agent Execution Surface
Data Engineering
Fabric Dataflows Gen2 for Analytics Engineering
What Fabric Dataflows Gen2 Means for the Next Phase of Microsoft Analytics Engineering
AI/ML
Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption, Burnout and Governance
Burnout, AI, and the Reality Gap: What Enterprise Leaders Need to Hear Before the Next Copilot Rollout
AI/ML
Azure Agent Resilience Testing for Production Readiness
If you want agents that survive the real world, start testing them in hostile environments
AI/ML
Enterprise Agent Memory Governance for Microsoft AI
Your agents are only as good as their memory: what EvoLib gets right about enterprise learning loops
AI/ML
Realtime Voice Implications for Microsoft Copilot
What OpenAI’s Realtime Voice System Signals for Microsoft Copilot Experiences
AI/ML
Microsoft 365 Copilot Change Management Case Study
There is no enterprise Copilot without change management — and the best proof is coming from the field
AI/ML
GitHub Copilot Spend Governance for Engineering Leaders
Taming GitHub Copilot Spend Without Slowing Developers
AI/ML
Microsoft 365 Copilot Organizational Prompt Governance
Organizational Prompts in Microsoft 365 Copilot: The New Governance Layer for Prompt Reuse
Azure
Azure MCP Server Cost Tools for FinOps Governance
Azure Resource Manager MCP Server: Why Cost Management and Pricing Toolsets Matter for FinOps