AzureCraft exists to capture practical Azure architecture knowledge — the kind you only learn by making real design decisions, living with the trade-offs, and refining the pattern the next time around.
There is no shortage of Azure documentation. What’s harder to find is the connective tissue: why one pattern beats another in a given context, what the diagram actually looks like, and how to reuse it without re-deriving it from scratch. That’s the gap this blog fills.
Who this is for
- Cloud and platform architects designing foundations other teams build on.
- Engineers who want the reasoning behind a reference architecture, not just the picture.
- Technical leaders making build-vs-buy and topology decisions that are expensive to reverse.
What you’ll find here
Posts cluster around three pillars:
- Infrastructure — landing zones, networking, identity, governance, and cost guardrails.
- Data & AI — landing AI workloads safely, private connectivity, and data platform patterns.
- Modern apps — application design that holds up under real load and real org structures.
Diagram-first. Every substantial post leads with an architecture diagram, then explains the decisions behind it. If you only have two minutes, the diagram should still teach you something.
The principles behind every post
- Opinionated. A clear recommendation beats a list of ten “it depends” options. The trade-offs are always stated.
- Diagram-first. If it can’t be drawn, it isn’t understood yet.
- Reusable. Patterns are written so you can lift them into your own designs.
- Honest. Where Azure has rough edges, we say so.
Where to start
New here? Read Azure Landing Zones: A Practical Architect’s View for the foundation, then AI Workloads in Azure Landing Zones to see how a modern workload lands on top of it.