Field notes
What I learned in production.
Notes from building document automation on Azure alone: what I measured, what broke, and the design decisions I'd make again.
Document AI
Show your evidence: highlighting PDFs with Document Intelligence bounding boxes
Turning polygons into overlays, so an approver sees exactly where on the page a value came from.
Azure · Sep 2026 Container Apps in production: the practices I actually keep Revisions, secrets through Key Vault, scaling rules and the pipeline that ships them. Architecture · Sep 2026 Microservices for a team of one: where I draw the boundaries When a separate service earns its operational cost, and when it's just a folder. AI systems · Sep 2026 Letting the model decide: AI as the decision-maker in an invoice manager What the model is allowed to decide, what it isn't, and how every decision stays auditable. Design concepts · Sep 2026 Boring on purpose: idempotency, error taxonomies and correlation IDs The three habits from my RPA years that I carry into every system I build. Integrations · Jun 2026 How I Design Production Integrations for Reliability The patterns I use when building REST/OAuth-heavy automations and backend workflows that need to survive real production conditions.