The incident ticket lands on a Tuesday morning. Production degraded last Friday. You open the Azure portal, pull up the subscription’s Log Analytics Workspace, and realize the diagnostics on the App Gateway were never enabled. The VNet flow logs are going to a different workspace some …

Deploying your landing zone was the easy part. Now you have to live with it.

The most common failure mode in platform engineering is not a bad initial deployment — it is treating the landing zone as a finished project rather than an ongoing product. Azure releases new services and deprecates old …