Twenty-eight per cent of working adults in Great Britain were hybrid workers between January and March 2025, according to the Office for National Statistics, and the proportion has climbed steadily since March 2022. That single figure understates the architectural problem…
Across more than 23,000 production Kubernetes clusters running AI workloads on AWS, Azure and GCP, average measured GPU utilisation was just 5 percent. On AKS specifically, it averaged just 2 percent. That figure comes from Cast AI’s 2026 State of…
Eighty-two per cent of organisations running containers now run Kubernetes in production, according to the CNCF Annual Survey released in January 2026. That figure is up from 66 per cent in 2023 and is routinely cited as evidence that Kubernetes…
The caching product most Azure architects are designing around has a published end-of-life date. Azure Cache for Redis, across all tiers from Basic to Enterprise Flash, is being retired. Enterprise and Enterprise Flash retire on 31 March 2027, with remaining…
Selecting UK South as your deployment region closes roughly 60% of the residency problem. Most platform architects do not find out about the other 40% until an FCA operational resilience review or an NHS DSPT mandatory audit uncovers it. Identity…
It has been a week where Microsoft shipped two quietly significant pieces of infrastructure plumbing while the broader industry got a reminder that moving fast with AI is not the same as moving well. Google I/O brought the usual wave…
The Azure Portal’s Policy compliance blade was built for interactive investigation, not estate-wide reporting. It binds to a single scope per view, re-queries on every click, and offers no cross-management-group roll-up. For teams managing dozens or hundreds of subscriptions, it…
Most hybrid Azure environments are quietly running a DNS architecture that was designed for a different era. A pair of Windows Server VMs acting as DNS forwarders, patched manually, sized conservatively, and sitting in the critical path of every single…
The Terraform module that built most enterprise Azure foundations is reaching the end of its life. The legacy enterprise scale module, which serves as the backbone of hundreds of production Azure environments, enters archival in August 2026. Teams evaluating it…
Most architects treat UK data residency as a location question. The ICO, the FCA, and the NCSC do not. UK GDPR contains no requirement to store data on British soil. The FCA’s PS21/3 operational resilience regime does not mandate UK-only…
