Helping developers build with data and the cloud.

Design work so it can continue without you. Engineering for Continuity and the Exit Packet preserve decisions, operational knowledge, relationships, and momentum before a handover is needed.

What distinguishes forward-deployed engineering from implementation consulting: turning customer experience into product improvements through access, contribution, and feedback.

GitHub stars are easy to count, easy to compare, and easy to misuse. So, how to truse OSS projects?

Using Copilot to analyze personal writing and create a reusable voice guide, with concrete constraints for technical language, structure, multilingual differences, and humor.

Why a Fabric Data Agent can miss Zoé when searching for zoe, how accent-insensitive SQL collations help, and when a normalized column is better for performance.

Notes on an agent-built C compiler, the role of testing and tooling in autonomous software development, and why language-model benchmarks should reward uncertainty.

A practical email routine built around an inbox that fits on one screen, separate external and CC inboxes, color coding, snoozing, and a daily email budget.

Practical ways to use Azure SQL Serverless and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric: auto-pause, caching, connection settings, wake-up monitoring, user feedback, and delayed writes.

Rebuilding a blog without waiting for perfection, and using Outlook, Azure Functions, and GitHub Actions to publish Markdown notes directly from email.