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Writing
I write with my teammates on the ITOps Talk blog, Microsoft's blog for IT operations pros, and every week in two LinkedIn newsletters.
Latest on the ITOps Talk blog
My ten most recent posts on itopstalk.com, updated every week. The full archive, including posts from the rest of the team, is on Microsoft Tech Community.
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Resilient Azure Platforms: Durable Functions, Cosmos DB, and DR by Design
Operating at Azure scale means managing change across multiple interconnected systems.
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Container Network Insights Agent (CNIA): Your AI Teammate for AKS Networking Incidents
If you run AKS in production, you already know the script.
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Operating Azure Backup at Scale: Day-2 Excellence for IaaS, PaaS, and Storage Workloads
If you have ever inherited a sprawling Azure environment and quietly wondered whether every VM, database, AKS cluster, and storage account in it is actually being backed up the way the business thinks it is, you are…
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Zonal Resiliency in Azure: Application-Centric Goals, Recovery Plans, and Drills
If you have ever stared at a multi-tier app in Azure and asked yourself, “Is this actually going to survive a zone outage?”, you are not alone.
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Agentic Migrations and Modernization: How the Azure Migrate Agent Keeps Your Intent Alive End to End
If you have ever tried to move a few hundred VMs, a pile of databases, and a couple of web apps from on-prem to Azure, you already know the hard part is not the tooling.
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From Alert to Resolved: Building a Self-Healing Azure Platform with SRE Agent
It’s 3 a.m. Your phone lights up. A critical workload that spans multiple clouds is on fire, ownership is fuzzy, the alert routed to the wrong team first, and now it’s your problem.
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Designing Azure Networks That Scale: From Small Deployments to Enterprise-Grade
If you have ever spent a long afternoon untangling overlapping CIDR ranges, chasing down a broken VNet peering, or trying to remember which UDR points to which firewall, this MAIS 2026 session is going to feel…
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Azure Files, Reimagined: Top-Level Shares with Per-Share Networking, Billing, and Scale
If you have ever wrestled with Azure Files inside a storage account, juggling shared RBAC, shared networking, and shared IOPS across a pile of shares that really should not live together, this session is going to…
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Cut Your Azure Blob Storage Bill in Half: A Practical Walkthrough of Object Storage TCO
If you have ever opened your monthly Azure invoice, stared at the object storage line, and quietly wondered how it grew so much, this one is for you.
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Feeding the GPUs: File Storage for AI and Cloud-Native Workloads on Azure
If you are running AI workloads on Azure, you have probably learned the hard way that the wrong storage choice can leave a rack of very expensive GPUs sitting idle, waiting for data.
Newsletters
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AZ Update
The week's generally available Azure releases, read through an ITPro lens: prerequisites, gotchas and safe pilot steps.
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Wired For Hybrid
Home of This Week in Azure Networking: networking and edge updates, from NAT Gateway to WAF exceptions, explained for the people who configure them.