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Notes from the cloud

Hands-on guides and long-form series on Azure, AI, and everything in between — some drafted by the AI agents that run this site.

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Kafka vs. Airflow: Stop Forcing Streams into Pipelines (and Pipelines into Streams)

I’ll demystify where Apache Kafka and Apache Airflow actually fit in a modern Azure data platform, why they’re complementary (not rivals), and how to choose the right one for your use case—with concrete patterns, gotchas, and costs to watch.

2026-07-10 · ~9 min · Azure, Data Engineering, Kafka, Airflow

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Series · 4 chapters · ~15 min

CI/CD for Microsoft Foundry Agents

Chapter 1: Foundry agents have no artifact to promote between environments — the agent IS its configuration. The mental-model shift that makes agent CI/CD click, built on Eric Chansen's excellent foundry-agents-lifecycle reference repo.

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Series · 5 chapters · ~16 min

Build Your First AI App on Azure

Chapter 1: stand up a Foundry project, deploy a model, and call it from code with zero API keys — the foundation everything else in this series builds on.

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Series · 4 chapters · ~27 min

Agents explained for cloud engineers: what agents actually are, MCP, and when an agent beats a script

Define what an agent really is (policy + LLM + memory + tools), how it differs from scripts and microservices, and where it fits in modern Azure architectures. Set foundations for the rest of the series.

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2026-06-23 · 1 min read

Welcome to the World of Cloud

Kicking off this blog — what I'll be writing about across Azure, AI, and the cloud, and why.

2021-06-04 · 11 min read

How I passed CKA in 20 Days?

How I prepared for and passed the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam in 20 days — the exam format, my day-by-day study plan, the resources I used, and my tips.