Mikhail Shilkov

Under the hood of Claude Code skills: folder layout, tool definition, and runtime flow.

How Claude Code uses web tools under the hood: schemas, prompts, execution, and design trade-offs Claude Code is a popular coding assistant.

Analyzing the system prompt changes between Claude Code 1.x and 2.0, powered by Sonnet 4.5 Claude Code 2.0 launched in September 2025, powered by Sonnet 4.5 which Anthropic calls the “best coding model in the world.”

Learn how AI assistants like Cursor with Pulumi’s MCP server accelerate IaC workflows and improve developer experience.

Discover how to customize Pulumi’s resource naming to align with your organization’s standards and naming conventions.

Author Azure Deployment Environments definitions with Pulumi using your favorite programming language.

Learn about Pulumi’s support for Java and JVM languages, which enable you to use Infrastructure As Code on any Cloud with the JVM ecosystem.

Use infrastructure as code to automate deployment of an Azure Synapse workspace Azure Synapse is an integrated analytics service that combines enterprise data warehousing of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Big Data analytics of Apache Spark.

Get up and running with Temporal workflows in Azure and Kubernetes in several CLI commands In my article A Practical Approach to Temporal Architecture, I outlined the various Temporal components and how they interact.

Learn how to deploy Docker containers to Azure Container Apps using Pulumi.

Get up and running with Temporal workflows in Azure in several CLI commands In my previous article, I outlined the various components of Temporal and how they interact.

Azure Functions introduce a data-driven strategy to pre-warm serverless applications right before the next request comes in Developers and decision-makers often mention cold starts as a significant drawback of serverless functions.

Tuning the sharding configuration for the optimal cluster performance with the numHistoryShards config.

Benchmarking Temporal deployments with a simple load simulator tool Temporal enables developers to build highly reliable applications without having to worry about all the edge cases.

Azure Infrastucture as Code using F#: combining Pulumi and Farmer The post is a part of F# Advent Calendar 2020.

Use infrastructure as code to automate deployment of an Azure Synapse workspace Azure Synapse is an integrated analytics service that combines enterprise data warehousing of Azure SQL Data Warehouse and Big Data analytics of Apache Spark.

AWS Lambda launches support for packaging and deploying functions as container images When AWS Lambda launched in 2014, it pioneered the concept of Function-as-a-Service.

Guest Post by Nadeem Ahamed Riswanbasha Introduction Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) plays a vital role in identifying and resolving issues in the flow of a business process.

Get up and running with Temporal workflows in Azure and Kubernetes in several CLI commands In my article A Practical Approach to Temporal Architecture, I outlined the various Temporal components and how they interact.

Get up and running with Temporal workflows in Azure in several CLI commands In my previous article, I outlined the various components of Temporal and how they interact.

What it takes to get Temporal workflows up and running Temporal enables developers to build highly reliable applications without having to worry about all the edge cases.

Temporal reimagines state-dependent service-orchestrated application development Regular readers of my blog may recognize me as a big fan of Azure Durable Functions.

Next Generation Pulumi Azure Provider with 100% API Coverage and Same-Day Feature Support is now available in beta I am excited to announce the beta release of a next generation Microsoft Azure provider for Pulumi.

Custom await logic for a dynamic list of .NET tasks, fast and on-time The Pulumi .NET SDK operates with an unusual asynchronicity model.

What is edge computing, and what are the primary use cases in the world today?

My humble story of getting (or not) a job at Amazon, Qualcomm, Jet.com, Pulumi, and more Interviews I think I’m reasonably good at passing job interviews.

Azure Functions introduce a data-driven strategy to pre-warm serverless applications right before the next request comes in Developers and decision-makers often mention cold starts as a significant drawback of serverless functions.

Developing infrastructure programs in F# with unit tests, TDD, and mocks Because Pulumi uses general-purpose programming languages to provision cloud resources, you can take advantage of native tools and perform automated tests of your infrastructure.

Developing infrastructure programs in C# with unit tests, TDD, and mocks Because Pulumi uses general-purpose programming languages to provision cloud resources, you can take advantage of native tools and perform automated tests of your infrastructure.

Insightful statistics about the actual production usage of Azure Functions, based on the data from Microsoft’s paper Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Research released a paper called “Serverless in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing the Serverless Workl…

My review of the paper “InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache” “InfiniCache: Exploiting Ephemeral Serverless Functions to Build a Cost-Effective Memory Cache” by Ao Wang, et al.

Running Azure Functions Docker container inside Google Cloud Run managed service Suppose you are a .NET developer, you love the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model, but you want to run your serverless functions in Google Cloud.

Google Cloud Run is the latest addition to the serverless compute family.

AWS recently announced the launch of Provisioned Concurrency, a new feature of AWS Lambda that intends to solve the problem of cold starts.

How Santa Cloud uses F# and Pulumi to bring cloud resources to the homes of software engineers.

Factors to consider while deploying cloud infrastructure for serverless apps.

A comparison AWS Lambda with Azure Functions, focusing on their unique features and limitations.

Hosting Azure Functions in Kubernetes: how it works and the simplest way to get started.

A reusable component to build highly-available, low-latency applications on Azure In a previous blog post, I shared how easy it is to create a globally distributed, highly-available, low-latency application with Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB, and Pulum…

How to monitor your APIs using serverless technologies and an Epsagon dashboard.

Ten bite-sized code snippets that use Pulumi to build serverless applications with Azure Functions and infrastructure as code.

How AWS Lambda changed the policy of recycling idle instances I’ve just released an update to the Serverless Cold Starts section of my website.

Azure pricing can be complicated—to get the most value out of your cloud platform, you need to know how to track spend and measure the costs incurred by Azure Functions.

From config files to Key Vault and role-based access, learn how infrastructure as code helps manage application secrets in Azure.

Verifying your Function App as a valid target for the cloud load testing.

Azure CLI is a powerful tool to manage your cloud resources.

Building a serverless application on Azure with both the data store and the HTTP endpoint located close to end users for fast response time.

Static websites are back in the mainstream these days.

The simplest way to take a Node.js function and deploy it to Azure cloud as an HTTP endpoint using Pulumi.

Leverage Pulumi for continuous delivery of code and infrastructure to Azure PaaS.