Insights
Notes from engineers who build the systems.
Practical writing on Azure, applied AI, security and regulation for teams in regulated businesses.
Regulation
The EU AI Act for bank and insurance operations teams
Which credit and insurance uses are high-risk, what deployers must do, and the dates that apply after the Digital Omnibus on AI, as of October 2026.
Read · 6 min readCloud
Azure OpenAI in UAE North: what data residency actually covers
A UAE North resource does not keep every prompt in the UAE. What each deployment type does, how abuse monitoring works, and what to configure.
Read · 6 min readApplied AI
Taking an AI pilot to production in a regulated business
What changes between an AI demo and a system a regulated business can run: evaluation, guardrails, approvals, identity, monitoring and ownership.
Read · 6 min readSecurity & Compliance
SOC 2 evidence your delivery pipeline can produce
How GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and an Azure estate map to SOC 2 change, access and operations criteria, and how to export evidence an auditor can sample.
Read · 6 min readFinancial services
KYC automation without black boxes
How to automate document checks, sanctions and PEP screening and adverse media while keeping every onboarding decision explainable and auditable.
Read · 6 min readCloud
Azure FinOps quick wins, ordered by effort
Practical Azure cost actions, from tagging and anomaly alerts to commitment discounts and storage lifecycle rules, in the order most teams can deliver.
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