Roast profile R-03
Foundry & Azure
Agents, Bicep, Functions, cost control.
Medium — Concept
- Azure Functions Flex Consumption: VNet, Bicep and the end of ConsumptionFlex Consumption brings VNet integration into the serverless model, and the Linux Consumption plan is being retired. What changes and how to set it up with Bicep.
- Application landing zones become workload landing zones – five CAF scenarios vanishMicrosoft is renaming the application landing zone to workload landing zone. More urgent: five CAF scenarios disappear, AVD and SAP on 30 October 2026.
- Microsoft Foundry vs. Azure OpenAI Service — Clearing Up the ConfusionLast week, customer call. Architect from a mid-sized company asks: „We’ve been using Azure OpenAI for two years.
- Document Intelligence in Foundry: Where Did It Go?If you went looking for Document Intelligence and found Microsoft Foundry instead, you are not lost. Where the service moved, what changed and how to find it again.
- 11,000 Models – So Which One Do I Actually Pick?It was towards the end of my last session at Microsoft. The slides were done, the coffee cold – and then the questions came. Not one, not two.
- Azure Management Groups: Order in Your Cloud ChaosManagement groups sit above subscriptions and let you apply policy and access once, for everything below. How the hierarchy works and how to design it well.
- Getting Started with Microsoft Azure: Your Introduction to the Cloud WorldA jargon-free first look at Microsoft Azure: what the platform is, how it connects to Microsoft 365, and what SaaS, IaaS and AaaS mean — explained with espresso.
Dark — Implementation
- Bicep patterns for maintainable Azure platformsYour first Bicep template runs after an hour. Whether you still understand it a year from now depends on its structure.
- Microsoft Foundry: building agents until they are production-readyWith Microsoft Foundry you build an AI agent in one afternoon. It only becomes secure and maintainable with roles, Entra ID access, guardrails and monitoring.
- SocialHub with AzureI built my own social hub. One single page where everything comes together: LinkedIn, Instagram, the blog, the podcast, the newsletter, my speaking dates.
- Azure Costs: The Black Box That Gets More Expensive Every MonthYou sit with people who live inside Azure — architects, MVPs, engineers. And at some point the conversation turns to costs.
- Azure Portal vs. CLI vs. Bicep: Who's in Charge?Portal, CLI and Bicep all change the same Azure resources, but not the same way. When to click, when to script and when to describe your infrastructure as code.