Four Japanese ideas you can adopt for a calmer, sharper life

Kaizen, Kanban, Muda, and Jidoka (with everyday examples and a simple 7-day starter plan)

If you still manage Azure Policy in the portal, you are running production on hope

A hot-take workflow for shipping Azure Policy through Azure DevOps without surprise outages, exception chaos, or portal drift.

Azure Policy at scale: DeployIfNotExists patterns that don’t melt ops

A PracticalIT how-to for building DeployIfNotExists policies that stay predictable in production.

Before and after: what changes when you move policy to PRs

A mini case post for platform teams who are tired of click-ops governance

Guardrails, not roadblocks: nudge → block → escape

How to sanity-check cloud cost reports before you escalate anything

A practical workflow for Azure-heavy teams, but useful for any cloud cost report: verify coverage, verify the data, then isolate the driver.

Before and after: what changed when we moved policy to PRs

A mini case post for platform teams who are tired of click-ops governance

Project Clean Slate and the Quiet Power of Letting Go

Cost Drift: A System Bug, Not a Billing Surprise