In this post, I’ll walk you through the major refactoring of Azure Quick Review (azqr), where I used GitHub Copilot’s plan mode and agent mode while supervising every change. My role was purely architectural: I defined what needed to change, reviewed every proposal, and guided the AI through the process.
TL;DR # I refactored Azure Quick Review (azqr) without writing a single line of code by using GitHub Copilot’s plan mode (to design the architecture) and agent mode (to implement it). The refactor eliminated massive technical debt, 72 scanner packages, 72 command files, hundreds of ARM calls and replaced them with a centralized scanner registry, batched Azure Resource Graph queries, a modular pipeline, dynamic command generation, and unified throttling policy.
As organizations scale their Azure OpenAI workloads, throttling (HTTP 429 errors) becomes a critical operational concern. These errors indicate that your requests exceed the provisioned capacity, leading to degraded user experience, failed completions, and potential revenue loss.
This post introduces the Azure Quick Review openai-throttling plugin, which helps you identify throttling patterns, analyze affected deployments, and make data-driven decisions for capacity planning.
Azure availability zones are critical for high availability and disaster recovery. However, zone numbers (1, 2, 3) are logical abstractions—their physical datacenter mappings vary across every subscription. Your zone-redundant deployment might actually share infrastructure with your DR environment because different subscriptions map zones differently.
This post explores the Azure Quick Review zone-mapping plugin and why zone mappings matter for high availability, disaster recovery, and cross-subscription architectures.
Today we will walk through a GitHub Actions workflow that automates the Azure Quick Review (azqr) scan process. This workflow is designed to run on a schedule, on push events to the main branch, and on pull requests to the main branch.
Prerequisites # Before you start, make sure you have the following prerequisites in place:
What is Azure Quick Review? # If you are looking for a way to quickly assess the status and configuration of your Azure resources, you might want to try Azure Quick Review (azqr): a command-line interface (CLI) tool that scans your Azure resources and generates an Excel report with detailed information and recommendations based on Azure’s best practices.