Azure guides, written by
people who run it every day.
Practitioner content on Azure cost optimisation, security and compliance, backup and recovery, monitoring, networking, application architecture, reliability, and migration. Not marketing copy. Written by the SRE team that operates Azure environments for tech-led businesses.
Guides and articles
Each guide covers one Azure topic from first principles to production-ready practice.
Azure Security, Identity and Compliance for Regulated Businesses
Security keeps attackers out. Compliance proves it to a regulator. A practitioner's guide to running Azure in regulated markets: identity, controls, and the evidence DORA, NIS2, FCA, PCI DSS and the rest actually demand.
Read guide →Azure Backup, Site Recovery and Disaster Recovery
Backups you have never restored are a hope, not a plan. A practitioner's guide to Azure Backup, Site Recovery, RPO and RTO, and proving recovery works before you need it.
Read guide →The Complete Guide to Azure Cost Management and Optimisation
A practitioner's guide to cutting your Azure bill without slowing your team down. Visibility, accountability, right-sizing, commitments, and the order that actually works.
Read guide →Azure Monitoring and Observability: From Azure Monitor to Correlated Insight
Monitoring tells you something broke. Observability tells you why. A practitioner's guide to Azure Monitor, the limits of native tooling, and unified observability that cuts MTTR.
Read guide →Azure Networking and Connectivity
A practitioner's guide to Azure networking: load balancing, traffic routing, latency, and connectivity, diagnosed and optimised in the order that actually works.
Read guide →Azure Application Architecture and Messaging
A practitioner's guide to event-driven architecture on Azure: choosing between Service Bus, Event Hubs and Event Grid, and building systems that scale and decouple cleanly.
Read guide →Azure Reliability, Scaling and Performance
A practitioner's guide to building Azure systems that stay up and scale to meet demand: redundancy matched to risk, self-healing design, and scaling that follows load instead of guesswork.
Read guide →Azure Migration and Governance
A practitioner's guide to migrating to Azure and governing it once you arrive: readiness assessment, landing zones, tagging and policy, built for regulated businesses.
Read guide →Need someone to actually run your Azure?
We manage Azure environments 24×7 using Datadog as the observability foundation.