Cloud Chronicles · Darthick Somu
Making Cloud Make Sense.
Practical perspectives on Azure, AI, FinOps and sustainable cloud architecture.
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India’s banking sector is moving rapidly toward intelligent, always-on financial services. UPI, mobile banking, digital lending, and real-time fraud monitoring… Read more: Agentic AI in Indian Banking: Zero Trust on Azure - Copilot Studio Hooks: Who Controls Your AI Agent?
AI Agents Need Guardrails AI agents are becoming increasingly capable of reasoning, selecting tools and executing business processes independently. That… Read more: Copilot Studio Hooks: Who Controls Your AI Agent? - Azure Cost Optimization for Architects: Design the Savings Before the Bill Arrives
Cloud cost optimization is an architecture decision—not a cleanup exercise after the invoice arrives. The most sustainable Azure savings come… Read more: Azure Cost Optimization for Architects: Design the Savings Before the Bill Arrives
CORE ARCHITECTURE AREAS
Enterprise architecture beyond product features
The focus is on architecture decisions, delivery constraints, operational trade-offs and governance – not vendor marketing.
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Explore Azure →Gen AI
Enterprise AI patterns, integration considerations and architecture trade-offs.
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Application modernization, hybrid connectivity, delivery planning and migration execution.
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Cost governance, consumption strategy and sustainable architecture choices.
Explore sustainability →REAL-WORLD ARCHITECTURE
No perfect stack. Just smarter trade-offs.
Cloud decisions live at the intersection of security, resilience, cost, operability, compliance and speed. The job is not chasing perfection. It is making every trade-off clear, intentional and buildable.
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ABOUT DARTHICK
Principal Cloud Architect. Enterprise delivery focused.
I work across Azure architecture, modernization, migration, AI and enterprise cloud delivery. Cloud Chronicles is where I document practical patterns, lessons and viewpoints for architects, engineering teams and technology leaders.