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Measuring MCP Tool Schema Overhead with Azure API Management

Measuring full-schema and curated-tool loading with Microsoft Foundry, APIM and GitHub MCP. Introduction I recently came across an Uber engineering blog on X about how Uber operates its ‘software factory’. What caught…

APIM Azure

19 Oct 2026

10 min read

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1 Sep 2026

Azure API Center: Govern APIs with Spectral linting

APIC Azure

6 min read
21 Jul 2026

Azure API Center: Link APIM for automatic API inventory sync

APIC APIs Azure

3 min read
22 Jun 2026

A real look at BYON Microsoft Foundry

AI Azure

14 min read
18 May 2026

Project Radius

ACA & AKS Azure Azure Bicep

10 min read
7 Apr 2026

Simplifying role assignments in Bicep with roleDefinitions()

Azure Bicep

2 min read
23 Feb 2026

Micro deployment pattern with Azure Deployment Stacks

Azure Azure Bicep

5 min read
18 Jan 2026

Open WebUI On Azure: Part 2 – API Management ❤️ AI

AI APIM APIs Azure

11 min read
11 Jan 2026

Open WebUI On Azure: Part 1 – Architecture & Deployment

AI APIs Azure Azure Bicep

17 min read
1 Dec 2025

Rate limiting Entra External ID Email OTP Events with APIM

APIs Azure Entra

4 min read
14 Nov 2025

Automating Azure Bicep Testing with Ephemeral Environments in GitHub Actions

Azure Azure Bicep GitHub

7 min read
6 Oct 2025

My favourite 5 Bicep resources

Azure Bicep

5 min read
8 Sep 2025

Using Shared Variable File Pattern to simplify Azure Roles In Bicep

Azure Bicep Azure DevOps

4 min read

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