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6 Multi-Agent Orchestration Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know

When teams start building multi-agent AI systems, the first instinct is to wire agents together with ad-hoc scripts. Call Agent A. Then call Agent B.…

Chris Pietschmann • May 10, 2026 • 12 min read

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The Software Dark Factory and the Future of Software Development

The term “dark factory” comes from manufacturing. It refers to a factory that is so automated it can run with the lights off. No people…

Chris Pietschmann • May 9, 2026 • 13 min read

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Run Gemma 4 Locally with GitHub Copilot and VS Code

Local AI development is getting really interesting. For a long time, using AI coding assistants meant relying almost entirely on cloud-hosted models. You installed an…

Chris Pietschmann • May 6, 2026 • 8 min read

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Stop Wasting Hours Writing Unit Tests: Use GitHub Copilot to Explode Code Coverage Fast

Most development teams say they want better test coverage. Fewer teams say out loud why they do not have it: writing unit tests is slow,…

Chris Pietschmann • Apr 8, 2026 • 13 min read

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Terraform: Easier Azure Region Pairing and Governance with the Build5Nines Region Map Module

Managing Azure regions in Terraform sounds simple at first. You define a location variable, pass in something like eastus, and move on. That works fine for a small…

May 11, 2026 • 10 min read

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Stop Hard-Coding “Local IP” in Terraform: Lock Down Firewalls Dynamically

You’ve probably done it: you’re rushing to validate a change, you need temporary SSH or RDP access, and you paste your current public IP into…

Mar 9, 2026 • 8 min read

Azure Management

Implementing Azure Naming Conventions at Scale with Terraform and Build5Nines/naming/azure (AzureRM + Region Pairs)

Microsoft Azure resource naming conventions are one of those “small” DevOps and cloud infrastructure management disciplines that quietly determine whether your cloud estate stays governable…

Dec 26, 2025 • 10 min read

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New Book: Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI by Chris Pietschmann

I am excited to announce the release of my new book, Build and Deploy Apps using Azure Developer CLI, a practical, hands-on guide for developers and…

Dec 21, 2025 • 2 min read

Artificial Intelligence

Prompt Noise Is Killing Your AI Accuracy: How to Optimize Context for Grounded Output

The most common reason an AI system “hallucinates” in production isn’t that the model is dumb. It’s that we’re drowning it. In the last year,…

Dec 15, 2025 • 8 min read

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