platform-engineering

  1. AKS Automatic: Production-Ready Kubernetes with Less Operational Burden

    Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...
  2. Microsoft's Cloud-First Transformation: Azure, Observability, and Platform Engineering

    Microsoft’s internal IT organization has completed one of the most ambitious cloud migrations in corporate history — moving virtually all employee-facing systems into Azure and reshaping how the company thinks about operations, security, and engineering at scale. The transition, driven by...
  3. Microsoft Leads 2025 Gartner MQ with Azure Container Portfolio for AI‑First Apps

    Microsoft’s announcement that it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management arrives at a moment when containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native AI workloads are reshaping enterprise architecture—and Azure’s product playbook for containers is one of the clearest...