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Welcome to the World of Cloud

2026-06-231 min readAzure, AI, Cloud

Why this blog

After years of working hands-on with Microsoft Azure — first as a Pre-Sales Solutions Architect and now as an Infrastructure Lead — I wanted a place to share what I learn as I learn it. This is that place.

Expect practical, no-fluff notes on building and running things in the cloud: architecture patterns that held up in production, the Azure services worth your time, and increasingly, how AI is reshaping the way we design and operate infrastructure.

What I'll write about

  • Azure in practice — landing zones, networking, identity, cost, and the trade-offs that don't show up in the docs.
  • AI on Azure — Azure AI Foundry, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, and how to ship them securely.
  • Cloud operations — automation, reliability, and the unglamorous work that keeps systems healthy.

What's next

This site itself is becoming a small case study: it's rebuilt on Next.js, themed with Microsoft Fluent, hosted on Azure Static Web Apps, and it'll soon have an AI assistant that can answer questions about my work — grounded only in what I've actually written.

More on all of that soon. Thanks for reading, and welcome to the world of cloud.

Praveen Anil

Praveen Anil

Infrastructure Lead · Azure & AI · About me