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Why Automated Azure Cost Tools Aren’t Enough
by Frans Lytzen | 27/02/2026Automated Azure cost optimisation tools are useful — but they don’t tell the whole story. Especially if you’re building and running your own applications in Azure. Real savings often sit at the architecture and code level, where experience and application insight outperform generic automation.
The AI Adoption Paradox: Why Waiting for Strategy (or Rushing Ahead) Is Holding You Back
by Sean Worthington | 23/02/2026AI adoption often stalls between endless strategy and fragmented experimentation. Instead of choosing one, organisations can evolve both in parallel — building clearer objectives, growing confidence and delivering measurable value along the way.
AI in Core Business: Where Real Competitive Advantage Is Built
by James Gregory | 13/01/2026AI creates real competitive advantage when it’s embedded in core business decisions and workflows – not just support functions. Here’s why leaders must rethink where AI is applied to unlock meaningful value.
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Find Documents with missing properties in Azure DocumentDb with the .Net SDK
by Frans Lytzen | 07/02/2017Azure DocumentDb stores documents as JSON. One of the effects of this is that sometimes you may end up with documents in the database that have missing properties and it can be quite tricky to search for them with the .Net SDK. This blog post has an approach to doing it.
Find docs with no PartitionKey in Azure DocumentDb
by Frans Lytzen | 07/02/2017It is possible to accidentally create documents in CosmosDb without a partition key. This post explores how to retrieve them.
Combine documents with other data in Azure Search
by Frans Lytzen | 30/01/2017Azure Search has built-in support for indexing documents in blob storage, which works great. But what if you want to combine the documents with other data, for example if you are building a recruitment system and want to search on, say, location and CV content at the same time?
How many ways can I host a web app in Azure?
by Frans Lytzen | 06/01/2017A quick list of the different ways you can host a web app in Azure.
Auto publish Azure Web Jobs with ASP.Net Core RTM
by Frans Lytzen | 26/08/2016Use Kudu to deploy Azure Web Jobs with ASP.Net Core.
InfoSec with SQL Azure
by Frans Lytzen | 25/08/2016An overview of SQL Azure security features.
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