Building the Azure Architecture Recommender: From Assessment Data to Ranked Patterns

Disclosure: I work for Altra, the company behind Dr. Migrate. This tool consumes Dr. Migrate assessment exports, which is worth flagging up front. The project is a personal side-project — opinions and weekend commits are my own. The question this tries to answer “We’ve assessed this application. What’s the right Azure architecture for it?” That question gets asked a hundred times a week across partners, account teams, and customers. The honest answer involves reading the assessment, understanding the app, skimming the Azure Architecture Center, and making a judgement call. The dishonest answer is “AKS” regardless of what the data says.