What You Really Want Are Intelligent Apps (Part 2: Automating AI Foundry)
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What You Really Want Are Intelligent Apps (Part 2: Automating AI Foundry)

Building production-ready AI applications shouldn't feel like navigating a minefield of preview APIs and missing Terraform resources.

In the latest Stay In Sync post, we tackle the reality of automating AI Foundry deployments when half the infrastructure doesn't have proper Terraform support yet. From Microsoft's confusing dual architecture for "AI Foundry Projects" (seriously, why are there two completely different things with the same name?) to wrangling OpenAI agents through REST API calls because native resources don't exist.

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What You Really Want Are Intelligent Apps (Part 1)
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What You Really Want Are Intelligent Apps (Part 1)

Every week brings another LinkedIn post about another company's "AI transformation." If you're the one tasked with making this actually happen at your firm, your team is probably asking when you'll have your own AI Platform (or whether you can finally get SecOps to unblock ChatGPT). You know you need to act, but where do you start?

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We Built a Multi-Cloud ETL Demo Before We Won the Work
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We Built a Multi-Cloud ETL Demo Before We Won the Work

We built a working multi-cloud ETL pipeline in just a few hours to back up our RFP response—connecting Azure SQL to BigQuery using Cloud Run, GCS, Terraform, and GitHub Actions. This post breaks down how we did it, what we learned, and how this pattern can scale for real-world data workflows.

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