Category Archives: Azure and AI

The Hidden Art of Forensic Engineering in Cloud Support

The Hardest Support Job You’ve Never Heard Of When your car breaks down, the mechanic lifts the hood. When your cloud app breaks, your support engineer is standing in the parking lot. Listening through a closed window. Taking notes on the sound. That’s not a metaphor I invented to be dramatic. That’s the actual jobContinue reading “The Hidden Art of Forensic Engineering in Cloud Support”

Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud …

Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud is always partly cloudy and the AI is always extremely confident about it. Mara: Christoph Corder covers a lot of ground in this batch — AI skepticism, data provenance, the building blocks of creative thinking, and a performance pattern that hides in plain sight inside cloud apps.Continue reading “Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud …”

Mastering AI: Effective Strategies for Critical Analysis

Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where we ask the hard questions — like whether the AI you're asking hard questions of is actually giving you hard answers. Mara: Today we're working through a piece by Christoph Corder on how to actively challenge AI reasoning rather than accept its first output — the method behind aContinue reading “Mastering AI: Effective Strategies for Critical Analysis”

How to Challenge AI for Better Insights

A few weeks ago I wrote about a mindset shift that changed how I use AI: I assume it’s wrong until it proves otherwise. That post got a lot of traction, and the most common response was some version of “okay, but how do you actually do that?” Fair question. The mindset is one thing.Continue reading “How to Challenge AI for Better Insights”

Podcast Episode: AI And Cloud Diagnostics

Pip: Welcome to Azure Advice, where the cloud is always sunny and the packet captures are always someone else’s problem. Mara: Christoph Corder has been busy — this episode covers how AI systems are built to orchestrate rather than just respond, and how cloud performance problems hide in plain sight, from loopback connections to memoryContinue reading “Podcast Episode: AI And Cloud Diagnostics”