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Build an Enterprise ready 2nd Brain on Azure Foundry + Cosmos DB
Build an Enterprise ready 2nd Brain on Azure Foundry + Cosmos DB
Frank Garofalo
Cloud Solutions Architect & Data Engineering leader at Microsoft. Building production AI systems, home lab infrastructure, and writing about it.
Career
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Welcome to Build Without Bounds. Whether you found this through GitHub, LinkedIn, or a search engine, here's the best way to explore what's here. If You're Into Home Labs Start with the infrastructure posts. These cover the hardware, the architecture decisions, and the lessons
Azure
Automating Document Processing with Azure Document Intelligence
Processing hundreds of multi-page PDF forms manually is exactly the kind of repetitive work that AI should handle. I built an automated document processing pipeline on Azure that splits PDFs, extracts structured data using AI, and stores results — all triggered by a simple file upload. The Problem Imagine receiving a
Azure
Replacing Oracle UCM with Azure-Native Document Management
Legacy document management systems like Oracle UCM are expensive, inflexible, and painful to maintain. I built AssuranceNet — an Azure-native replacement that demonstrates how to modernize document management with cloud-native services and modern development practices. The Legacy Problem Oracle UCM (now WebCenter Content) was built for a different era. Organizations running
Azure
Azure Data API Builder: From Database to Full-Stack App in Minutes
What if you could expose your database as a REST and GraphQL API — with authentication, role-based access control, and auto-scaling — without writing a single line of backend code? That's Azure Data API Builder (DAB), and I built a comprehensive demo showing how to use it in a production-grade
AI/ML
Building a Local LLM Research Agent: Privacy-First AI with SQL, RAG, and MCP
What if you could query databases, search documents, and run multi-tool AI workflows — all without a single byte leaving your machine? That's exactly what I built with the Local LLM Universal Research Agent. The Problem Most AI agent frameworks assume cloud APIs. That's fine for many
Security
Securing a Home Lab: Enterprise Security Practices at Home
How I apply enterprise security practices to my home lab — from network segmentation and SIEM to vulnerability scanning and intrusion detection.
Home Lab
Building a Production Proxmox Cluster with Ceph Storage
How I built a 3-node Proxmox cluster with Ceph distributed storage, providing high availability and software-defined storage for my home lab.
AI/ML
Running 34 LLMs on Consumer Hardware: A Practical Guide
How I run 34 large language models locally using Ollama on consumer GPUs, with practical tips on model selection, performance, and integration.
Monitoring
Monitoring 95+ Docker Containers: A Complete Observability Stack
How I built a comprehensive monitoring stack with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Alertmanager to observe 95+ Docker containers across my home lab.
Career
Why I'm Building in Public: From Home Lab to Production AI
Why I decided to document my journey from home lab tinkering to production AI systems — and what I hope you'll get out of it.