Azure AI Foundry
Agents, evaluations, model catalogs, grounding patterns.
Foundry-to-Foundry Agent Communication With the A2A Protocol for Distributed Agent Systems
The customer-support orchestration covered in [the multi-agent article](https://damionas.com/articles/multi-agent-orchestration-in-microsoft-foundry-with-shared-memory-and-handoff-patterns) had four agents inside one Foundry proje…
Continuous Evaluation for Foundry Agents With Prompt Flow and GitHub Actions
The Foundry agent we shipped to a customer-success team passed every hand-tested scenario before launch. Six weeks later, the team's manager pulled me aside: "the agent's getting worse at billing questions, but we can't tell when …
Microsoft Foundry Content Safety With Custom Classifiers and Defence in Depth
The Foundry agent we ran for an internal HR-question workload had Microsoft's default content safety filters enabled and we considered the security story closed.
Hybrid Search and Semantic Ranking in Azure AI Search With Custom Scoring Profiles
The first version of our Foundry-backed RAG pipeline used vector-only search against an Azure AI Search index. Recall was 71% on the gold set; for a customer-support workload, that meant about three in ten questions returned no us…
A Custom Foundry Tool That Queries Azure SQL With Row-Level Security via Entra ID OBO
The first version of our "ask the database" Foundry tool was a function that took a customer ID, ran `SELECT * FROM customer_orders WHERE customer_id = ?` against Azure SQL, and returned the rows.
Production Microsoft Foundry Agent Service With VNet Integration and Private Link
The first version of our Foundry agent service was reachable on the public internet behind an API key. That was fine for the prototype demo.
Multi-Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Foundry With Shared Memory and Handoff Patterns
The first multi-agent system I shipped on Foundry was a four-agent customer-support workflow: a triage agent that classified incoming requests, a knowledge agent that searched the docs, a billing agent that looked up account state…
End-to-End Observability for Azure AI Foundry Agents With OpenTelemetry and Application Insights
A production Foundry agent we ran for an internal customer started returning slow responses for one tenant on a Tuesday afternoon.
Edge RAG on Azure Arc From a Real Site Deployment: Latency, Hardware, Cost
For most workloads, "RAG in the cloud" is the right shape. For some workloads, regulated industries, manufacturing floors, retail stores, remote sites with weak connectivity, the data legally or practically can't leave the site.
Deploying One AI Agent in Production With Azure AI Foundry: Three Things I Wish I'd Known First
The "build a multi-agent system" tutorials are fun. Building one agent and putting it in production where customers actually depend on it is a different sport.