Production-Ready Agents: Observability, Security & Deployment – Part 8

Deploy AI agents to production with enterprise-grade observability, security, and resilience. Complete guide to OpenTelemetry, content safety, and Azure deployment.

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The AI Hardware Price Surge: Why GPUs, SSDs, and RAM Are Getting Expensive (And When It’ll End)

Hardware prices are surging due to unprecedented AI demand. Comprehensive analysis of why GPU, SSD, and RAM prices are up 30-70% in 2025, when normalization will occur, and strategic buying recommendations.

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The Cloud Bill Always Comes Due: Hard Lessons in FinOps from a Decade of Enterprise Cloud Migrations

The first time I saw a cloud bill exceed a million dollars in a single month, I knew something had fundamentally changed about how we needed to think about infrastructure. This wasn’t a massive enterprise with unlimited budgets—it was a mid-sized company that had enthusiastically embraced “cloud-first” without understanding what that commitment actually meant financially. […]

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Microsoft Azure AI Foundry: The Complete Guide to Enterprise AI Development

Introduction: Microsoft Azure AI Foundry (formerly Azure AI Studio) represents Microsoft’s unified platform for building, evaluating, and deploying generative AI applications. Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2024, AI Foundry consolidates Azure’s AI capabilities into a single, cohesive experience that spans model selection, prompt engineering, evaluation, fine-tuning, and production deployment. With access to Azure OpenAI models, Meta […]

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Visual Studio 2026 Transforms Developer Productivity with AI-Powered Intelligence and Cloud-Native Tooling

Introduction: After more than two decades working with Microsoft’s flagship IDE, I’ve witnessed Visual Studio evolve from a Windows-centric development tool into a comprehensive, AI-powered development platform. Visual Studio 2026, released alongside .NET 10, represents the most significant leap forward in the IDE’s history. This isn’t merely an incremental update—it’s a fundamental reimagining of how […]

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