Practical insights on Platform Engineering, Azure, GitHub, Terraform, and AI-powered delivery
After building a growing set of GitHub Copilot skills across areas such as Azure API Management, infrastructure as code authoring, and diagram generation with tools like Excalidraw and Draw.io, I have found that the difference between a skill that is genuinely useful and one that quietly disappoints usually comes down to a small number of … Read more
If you are building GitHub Copilot agent skills, creating them is usually the easy part. Sharing them across repositories without drift is where things get messy. In this post, I look at using APM to package skills, agents, and MCP configuration in a way that is reusable, focused, and much easier to manage across teams.
Learn how an Excalidraw Agent Skill powered by Excalidraw MCP in GitHub Copilot can generate Cloud, Terraform, and workflow diagrams from natural language prompts.
How I built the azure-pricing skill for GitHub Copilot, using Azure MCP and the Azure Retail Prices API to bring live Azure pricing into architecture and engineering workflows.
Learn how to generate AWS architecture diagrams automatically using Draw.io MCP and GitHub Copilot Agent Skills. Build consistent, readable diagrams directly from structured inputs and integrate them into engineering workflows.
Terraform provider upgrades often turn into a manual research exercise. You check the registry, read changelogs, scan the codebase for deprecated resources, update the provider version, add moved blocks, run a plan, and hope nothing breaks. Using GitHub Agentic Workflows, a Terraform MCP server, and reusable agents and skills, much of that preparation can be … Read more
Learn how to generate Azure architecture diagrams automatically using Draw.io MCP and GitHub Copilot Agent Skills. Build consistent, readable diagrams directly from structured inputs and integrate them into engineering workflows.
I started using Draw.io MCP to generate diagrams from structured input and keep them tied to code and infrastructure. Instead of manually arranging every shape, I can now generate a solid first draft in minutes, make deliberate edits, and commit it to Git. That simple change turns diagrams into living assets rather than throwaway images … Read more
In my a previous blog post, I shared my early experience getting started with GitHub Agentic Workflows. I’ve known about GitHub Agentic Workflows for a few months, after spending more time using them, what stands out isn’t just the AI capability – it’s the operating model: You keep the reliability and visibility of Actions, while … Read more
If you’ve ever tried to put together a “simple” Terraform module for Azure, you’ll know it rarely stays simple. You start with a couple of resources. Then someone asks for tags. Naming has to follow Azure CAF. Security defaults need tweaking. Monitoring gets bolted on late. By the time you open a pull request, the … Read more