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10 posts filed under Azure.
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.
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.
Choosing the Right Agent Identity: Managed Identity, Entra Agent ID, OBO, or Service Principal
The first design decision for any Azure AI agent is which identity it uses — a decision matrix across managed identity, Entra Agent ID, and OBO.
The Keyless Cookbook: Managed Identity for Every Azure Service Your Agent Touches
The exact RBAC role, disable-local-auth switch, and DefaultAzureCredential snippet for every Azure hop an agent uses — OpenAI, AI Search, Cosmos, SQL.
Microsoft Foundry's Production-Agent Release: A Solution Architect's Read
Foundry made hosted agents GA and put agent identity first with Entra Agent ID — but governance tooling is still preview and there's no SLA yet.
Zero-Secrets Architecture on Azure: Managed Identity for AI Agents
The governance case for keyless Azure: why shared keys are a liability, how managed identity plus RBAC fixes it, and how teams enforce it.
Dev Tunnels: Test Webhooks and Share Local Apps Without a Deploy
Microsoft Dev Tunnels is built into Visual Studio and the Azure CLI — expose localhost for webhooks and OAuth redirects without ngrok or Cloudflare.
Azure App Registration: A Complete Guide from Zero to Working App
Everything about Azure App Registration — application types, authentication flows, client secrets vs certificates, redirect URIs, and how tokens work.
.NET Architecture at Scale: Visual Guide to Modern Design Patterns
A working reference to 16 architecture patterns for .NET, with workflow diagrams, decision trees, and code sketches for each.
Efficient File Management on Azure Blob Storage: CRUD Operations and Upload Strategies
CRUD operations and chunked upload strategies for Azure Blob Storage in .NET and Angular — SAS tokens, container management, production patterns.
