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The Agentic Road to Revenue From SaaS concept to Microsoft Marketplace. Building a SaaS application is only part of becoming a commercial software provider. To sell through the Microsoft Marketplace., the application also needs tenant isolation, subscription lifecycle management, billing integration, security evidence, and a pub...
Agentic Platform Engineering for SaaS. Accelerating the Path to Market with Git-APE If you are an ISV building SaaS on Azure, the first demo is usually the easy part. The harder work is turning that proof of concept into a secure, scalable, commercial-ready service that can be operated confidently in production. That gap shows up quickly. T...
Frameworks mean nothing, until they change what gets built! In this article we discuss how Git-Ape turns architecture and governance into delivery controls on Azure because, if frameworks do not shape delivery decisions, they are just decoration. Cloud teams do not have a framework problem. They have an execution problem. The industry is...
~1,900 lines of Python. Zero dependencies. Saves you an hour a day. GitHub → · Now give Copilot CLI enhanced context recall. Point it at and let it cook. 🍳 Are you tired of using the slash /compact command every 10 min? The Context Window Is a Lie Every AI coding agent ships with a big number on the box. 200K tokens. Sounds massive...
This post is the first in a 3-part series: Bookmark this post for quick reference as you start exploring Agentic DevOps. It will be updated as the 3 parts become available. Getting started with Agentic DevOps Agentic DevOps is a new approach to software development where AI-powered agents work alongside your team across the entir...
Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to issues with working implementations, and executing multi-step en...
If you work in field engineering, you know the scenario. A customer is deploying AKS in a regulated environment. They hit an issue during node bootstrapping. They want to know exactly what happens when a node joins the cluster, which components run in which order, and whether the behaviour they're seeing is expected. The question sounds simple. T...
And the developers running Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI didn't notice... Status Page Says 'Operational.' Your Subagents Say Otherwise. If you're running autonomous agents in any serious capacity, you've experienced this: model provider outages aren't edge cases — they're part of the operating environment. Anthropic has had outages. ...
We've talked about the human scale problem and what happens when infrastructure scales but understanding doesn't. If you've been following along, you know the thesis: our tools have outpaced our ability to operate them, and platform engineering is how we're fighting back. But here's the thing - we've been fighting with one hand tied behind our b...
Taming the Noisy Inbox: How I Used MCP to Automate Email and Teams Triage How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) turns your AI coding assistant into a workplace productivity engine — connecting Microsoft 365 data to your terminal workflow. The Problem We All Share If you work in a customer-facing role, you know the feeling. You open your...