Kia ora! I'm Steve Rackham, a Cloud Architect and AI consultant based in Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.

I believe in substance over spectacle and have a people first approach to any technical challenge.

Series pilot

A field guide to preventable Azure Landing Zone failures that show up long before the first subscription lands in production.

Steve Rackham

13 min read

Why many Azure Landing Zones fail before the first subscription is deployed — eight preventable failure modes, with NZ field notes.

At a glance

The writing in numbers

A static site, no analytics trackers — just what is published in the repo today.

Posts published across Concepts, Guides, and Journal.

Parts in the Azure Landing Zones Failure Modes series, including the pilot.

Glossary terms with hover definitions on technical language.