Field notes on Microsoft 365, identity, cloud and system design, with the commands, configs and cutover plans left in.

  1. Automate blog and social media posting with Claude, GitHub Actions and Make

    An architecture for publishing one researched article a day and turning it into a narrated vertical video for YouTube Shorts, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn, with the platform limits that shape it.

    AI engineering9 min read
  2. Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migration Architecture: Cross-Tenant Mailbox, OneDrive, Teams and Domain Move

    A practical guide to Microsoft 365 tenant-to-tenant migration for mergers and divestitures: native cross-tenant mailbox and OneDrive moves, SharePoint, Teams and the domain cutover.

    Microsoft 36515 min read
  3. Production LLMOps & Enterprise RAG: Low-Latency, Privacy-Preserving Architecture at Scale

    A blueprint for building accurate, privacy-preserving Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, covering hybrid dense-sparse search, cross-encoder re-ranking, semantic caching and latency tuning.

    AI engineering6 min read
  4. Migrating Enterprise VMs to Azure: A Zero-Downtime Cutover Playbook and Runbook

    An enterprise migration architecture and minute-by-minute cutover runbook for moving VMware virtual machines and multi-tier business applications to Microsoft Azure with minimal, planned downtime.

  5. Event-Driven Microservices at Scale: Apache Kafka vs AWS SQS/SNS vs RabbitMQ for High-Volume Transaction Systems

    An architectural trade-off analysis of Kafka, RabbitMQ and AWS SQS for transaction-processing workloads, covering rebalance storms, poison-pill DLQ topologies and idempotent consumer design.

    Architecture9 min read
  6. Decommissioning Legacy VPNs: A Zero-Trust Remote Access Architecture for the Enterprise

    A reference architecture for replacing castle-and-moat VPN perimeters with identity-centric Zero Trust using Microsoft Entra ID P2, Zscaler Private Access and Continuous Access Evaluation.

Topics

Microsoft 365

Tenant migrations, Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams and the admin work that keeps them healthy.

2 articles

Security & identity

Entra ID, Conditional Access, Zero Trust access and privileged account control.

1 article

Cloud & infrastructure

Azure landing zones, migrations, networking and cost control.

1 article

Databases & HA

Replication, failover, pooling and keeping data alive when a node is not.

1 article

Architecture

Integration patterns, messaging and the trade-offs behind system design decisions.

1 article

AI engineering

Retrieval, evaluation and running language models inside real business systems.

2 articles