The AI Gateway in Azure API Management: A Control Plane for Enterprise AI
One control plane for enterprise AI — how APIM's AI gateway gives security, network, and infrastructure teams governance over models, MCP tools, agents.
Nitin Kumar Singh
Lead Solutions Architect · Azure, AI, .NET
I build enterprise AI systems in insurance: multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines and human-in-the-loop workflows on Azure. I write them up here, with the source.
- 15+years in enterprise software
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- 6series
- 12open-source repos
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All 90 piecesAgree Before You Build: Five Gates for Enterprise AI Use Cases
A five-gate method for picking enterprise AI use cases and measuring AI ROI in a way finance will accept and delivery can instrument, with a claims example.
Building a Multi-Agent E-Commerce Platform: The Complete Guide
Start here. A guided index to 40 chapters on building production multi-agent systems with Microsoft Agent Framework, in Python and C#, against one open-source e-commerce platform.
The Auth Chapter Every MCP Tutorial Skips: Real SSO for Microsoft Graph
How a production MCP server signs into Microsoft 365 with real SSO: public client + PKCE, delegated permissions, On-Behalf-Of, and 85 Graph tools kept safe.
Groundedness Detection vs Groundedness Evaluation: Two Azure Products, One Name
Azure has two features named Groundedness — a runtime detection API that blocks ungrounded answers, and an offline evaluator that scores them in CI.
The Production Guardrail Stack: Presidio + Azure Content Safety + NeMo Guardrails Around a MAF Agent
How to compose PII redaction (Presidio), Azure AI Content Safety, and NeMo Guardrails as layered middleware around a Microsoft Agent Framework agent.
Defense-in-Depth for AI Agents on Azure: Prompt Shields, Spotlighting, and the Coverage Gap
What Azure's Prompt Shields and Spotlighting actually block against jailbreaks and prompt injection — and the gap: they don't fire on agent tool calls.
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All projectsE-Commerce Agents
A multi-agent e-commerce platform in Python and .NET: orchestrator plus five specialists over A2A, with MCP tools, pgvector retrieval and OpenTelemetry throughout. The companion repo for the MAF series.
Python.NETMicrosoft Agent FrameworkA2AAI Knowledge Hub
A framework-free reference for AI engineering fundamentals: prompting, evaluation, retrieval and agent design, without tying any of it to one SDK.
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