- Advisory: a patching strategy on OCI with OS Management Hub - lifecycle environments, groups and schedulesOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: a patching strategy with Azure Update Manager - rings, maintenance windows and reportingAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: a shared GenAI platform for many teams - deployments, quotas, chargeback and guardrailsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: a SQL Server security baseline - authentication, roles, encryption and auditing by designDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: a well-architected review for Azure Databricks - questions and evidence queries per pillarDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: a well-architected review for GenAI workloads - questions per pillar for production readinessAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: adopt an off-the-shelf copilot, extend it, or build your own assistantAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: agents or workflows - when to let the model decide the steps, and how much autonomy to giveAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: ALB, NLB, API Gateway, CloudFront or Global Accelerator - choosing the AWS entry pointAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: an Azure Policy strategy - effects, rollout rings, exemptions and policy as codeAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: an evaluation strategy for GenAI applications - offline test sets, online signals and human reviewAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: an observability strategy on AWS - CloudWatch, managed Prometheus and Grafana, OpenTelemetryAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: an operating model for Cloud Guard and Security Zones - targets, recipes, triage and responseOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: an organisation-wide AWS Backup strategy - backup policies, vault lock, air-gapped copies and restore testingAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: batch, micro-batch or streaming - deciding how fresh data really needs to beData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a data orchestrator - Airflow, Data Factory/Fabric pipelines, Databricks Workflows or Dagster/PrefectData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a data platform - Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric or a cloud-native warehouseData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a DR pattern per workload on Azure - backup-restore, pilot light, warm standby or active-activeAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a DR pattern per workload on OCI - from backup copies to active standbyOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a managed MySQL service - RDS for MySQL, Aurora MySQL, Azure Flexible Server or HeatWaveDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a managed PostgreSQL service - RDS, Aurora, Azure Flexible Server, Cloud SQL, AlloyDB or OCIDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a MongoDB shard key - cardinality, frequency, monotonic keys and reshardingDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a Redis topology - standalone, replicas with Sentinel, Redis Cluster or a managed serviceDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a self-hosted LLM serving stack - vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM/Triton, TGI, Ollama or llama.cppAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a streaming platform - self-managed Kafka, Amazon MSK, Confluent Cloud, Event Hubs or KinesisData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing a vector store - pgvector, Azure AI Search, OpenSearch, Qdrant, Milvus or a managed vector databaseAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an AWS database - RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB or ElastiCache/MemoryDBAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an Azure database service - SQL Database, Managed Instance, SQL on VM, PostgreSQL, MySQL or Cosmos DBAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an embedding model - quality on your data, languages, dimensions, cost and lock-inAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an ingestion pattern per source - CDC, batch extracts, APIs, files or eventsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an LLM for a use case - hosted or open-weight, model size, and selecting by evaluationAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing an Oracle Database service - Autonomous, Base Database, Exadata or Database@Azure/AWS/GoogleOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing AWS compute - EC2, ECS on Fargate or EC2, EKS, or LambdaAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing AWS storage - S3, EBS, EFS or the FSx familyAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing Azure compute - VMs, App Service, Container Apps, AKS or FunctionsAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing Azure regions - residency, latency, zones, service availability and capacityAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing Azure storage - Blob, Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files, managed disks or Elastic SANAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing compute on Azure Databricks - serverless, job clusters, all-purpose clusters, SQL warehouses and poolsDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing document parsing for RAG - text extraction, layout models, OCR services or vision LLMsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing MySQL high availability - async replication, semi-sync, InnoDB Cluster, Galera or a managed serviceDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing OCI compute - VMs, bare metal, OKE, Container Instances or FunctionsOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing OCI storage - Block Volume, File Storage, Object Storage tiers or LustreOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing the entry point on OCI - Load Balancer, Network Load Balancer, API Gateway, WAF and DNS steeringOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: choosing where to run on OCI - regions, sovereign realms, Dedicated Region and Cloud@CustomerOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: container image supply chain on AWS - ECR, Inspector scanning, signing and admission controlAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: container image supply chain on Azure - ACR design, base images, scanning and signingAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: container image supply chain on OCI - OCIR, vulnerability scanning, image signing and OKE verificationOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: cost allocation and showback for shared data platformsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: data classification in Unity Catalog - governed tags, ABAC policies and keeping sensitive data protected at scaleDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: data contracts - agreeing schemas, quality and change rules between producers and consumersData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: data quality strategy - where to test, what to monitor and who owns failuresData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg or Hudi - choosing an open table format and staying interoperableData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing a SQL Server backup strategy from RPO and RTO - schedules, storage, immutability and testingDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing an Oracle backup strategy with RMAN - incrementals, recovery windows, object storage and immutabilityDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing around AWS service quotas and capacityAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing around Azure quotas, service limits and capacityAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing around OCI service limits, compartment quotas and capacityOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing AWS guardrails - SCPs, RCPs, declarative policies, proactive and detective controlsAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing Azure Arc for on-premises and multicloud serversAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing data retention for the lake and warehouse - legal holds, deletion and historyData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing for Availability Zone failure on AWS - static stability and zonal shiftAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: designing human-in-the-loop for AI actions - approvals, confidence thresholds and review queuesAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: environment strategy for data platforms - dev, test and prod without copying production data everywhereData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Front Door, Application Gateway, Load Balancer, Traffic Manager or API Management - choosing the traffic entry pointAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Git folders and branching strategy for Databricks teamsDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: how to build pipelines on Databricks - Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, notebook/file jobs or dbtDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: hybrid connectivity on AWS - Site-to-Site VPN, Direct Connect and resilient designsAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: hybrid connectivity on OCI - FastConnect, Site-to-Site VPN and redundant designsOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: identity design for Azure Databricks - Entra ID sync, account groups, service principals and admin rolesDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Key Vault design - vault per app, access model, Managed HSM and customer-managed keysAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: ML on Azure Databricks or Azure Machine Learning - training, model registry and serving choicesDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: MongoDB schema design - embed or reference, and the patterns that keep documents fastDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: multi-tenant design on PostgreSQL - database per tenant, schema per tenant or shared tables with row-level securityDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: networking for Databricks serverless on Azure - network connectivity configs, private endpoints and egress controlDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: OCI Vault and key management design - vault types, HSM vs software keys, external keys and rotationOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: PostgreSQL backup approach - pg_dump, pgBackRest, Barman, WAL-G or managed PITRDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Power BI on Azure Databricks - import, DirectQuery, composite models and how to connect securelyDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: prioritising GenAI use cases - scoring value, feasibility and risk before buildingAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Private Link, service endpoints or public endpoints with firewall rules - a PaaS network access guideAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: query in place or ingest? Lakehouse Federation vs Lakeflow Connect and pipelines on Azure DatabricksDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: RAG, fine-tuning or long context - choosing how to give a model your knowledgeAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Redis caching patterns - cache-aside, write-through, TTLs, invalidation and stampede protectionDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: retrieval for RAG on lakehouse data - Databricks Vector Search or Azure AI SearchDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: reviewing a live OCI workload against the Well-Architected FrameworkOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: rolling out AI/BI dashboards and Genie spaces - self-service analytics that stays accurate and governedDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: running a well-architected review of a data platformData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: running a Well-Architected review on a live AWS workload with the WA ToolAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: running a Well-Architected review on an existing Azure workloadAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: secrets and encryption key strategy on AWS - Secrets Manager, Parameter Store and KMSAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: security monitoring for Azure Databricks - audit logs, system tables and Microsoft SentinelDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: semantic layer and BI strategy - one definition of each metric across toolsData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs or Storage Queues - choosing Azure messagingAzure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: sharing data from Databricks - Delta Sharing, Clean Rooms, Marketplace or copyingDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: SLOs and observability for a data platform - freshness, completeness and pipeline healthData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: SQL Server Standard or Enterprise edition - deciding by the features and limits you actually needDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Kinesis or MSK - choosing AWS messaging and streamingAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: storage design for SQL Server on Azure VMs - disks, caching, tempdb and throughput limitsDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Streaming, Queue, Notifications, Events or Connector Hub - choosing OCI messaging and integrationOCI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: structuring dbt projects - layers, naming, one project or many, and ownershipData Platform · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: threat modelling a GenAI application with the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applicationsAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: Unity Catalog across regions - one metastore per region, cross-region sharing and residencyDatabricks on Azure · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: where to run Oracle Database in the cloud - OCI services, Oracle Database@Azure/AWS, RDS for Oracle or VMsDatabases · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: which data may go to which model - a data classification policy for GenAIAI & GenAI · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: workload identity on AWS - instance profiles, task roles, EKS Pod Identity, IRSA and IAM Roles AnywhereAWS · 25 Oct 2026
- Advisory: workload identity on OCI - instance principals, resource principals and OKE workload identityOCI · 25 Oct 2026