4 posts tagged with "Azure"

For Microsoft's internal Give Campaign this October, I built an open-source project to help volunteers create digital cards of encouragement for families connected to Ronald McDonald House. The idea is simple: give people a thoughtful way to share a few supportive words during a busy campaign, without making card creation a complicated process.

The project is called Words of Encouragement eCard. It brings the card-writing activity into an accessible, multilingual web experience.

On Friday, June 12, 2026, I delivered a webinar on the Microsoft Reactor YouTube channel called DevOps Foundations for the AI Agentic Era. The recording is now available, so you can watch it anytime.

The Journey Most Tutorials Skip​

Most AI tutorials start with "create an Azure resource" and end with "here's your chat completion." They skip the messy middle — the part where a developer goes from "I wonder which model would work for this" to "this is running in production, monitored, secured, and costing what I expected."

That full journey is what this post is about.

The Age of AI Agents Has Arrived, Is Your Engineering Culture Ready?​

Agentic software engineering is no longer a future concept. AI coding agents, autonomous pull request generation, self-healing pipelines, and AI-assisted operations are already reshaping how teams design, build, test, and ship software every single day.

And here's the uncomfortable truth most teams aren't ready to hear:

Agents don't magically fix broken engineering practices. They scale them.