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When Infrastructure Scales But Understanding Doesn't

We all know this, even if we don't like to admit it: modern infrastructure can scale infinitely, but human understanding doesn't. We've all seen it happen - organizations going from managing dozens of servers to thousands of containers, from deploying weekly to deploying hundreds of...
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Authentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract

Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this? They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic. If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an...
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Your Entire Engineering Floor Just Stopped Coding

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Desi Villanueva
And the developers running Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI didn't notice... Status Page Says 'Operational.' Your Subagents Say Otherwise. If you're running autonomous agents in any serious capacity, you've experienced this: model provider outages aren't edge cases — they're...
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Designing for Eventual Consistency for Microsoft Entra

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Microsoft Entra is a globally distributed service that provides identity and access management to millions of customers world-wide. To scale reliably and remain resilient during failures, Microsoft Entra uses an eventually consistent directory model. Key takeaway A successful write to...
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Mar 24, 2026
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Unlock More Power in Your Development Workflow: Syncfusion for Visual Studio Subscribers 

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Jim Harrer
A few months ago, I was talking with a developer who said something that stuck with me:  “I love building apps. I just don’t love rebuilding the same UI controls over and over again.”  That’s the reality for a lot of teams. You want to focus on your business logic,...
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Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older version

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Raymond Chen
A very primitive version of recovery.
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Mar 24, 2026
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📢LangChain4j got a new video series

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Rory Preddy
We recently released a step-by-step course from simple chat to AI agents using LangChain4j 👉http://aka.ms/LangChain4j-for-Beginners Now watch the new 6️⃣part Video series with tons of hands-on demos. Let's break down what you'll learn. Introduction to...
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Mar 23, 2026
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SQL code analysis in VS Code: Configure rules without editing your project file

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Iqra Shaikh
SQL code analysis has been part of the SSDT workflow for a long time. Before deploying a schema change, you could run a set of static analysis rules against your project to catch potential issues, things like missing primary keys, deprecated syntax, or objects that could break under...
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Mar 23, 2026
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Agentic Platform Engineering with GitHub Copilot

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We've talked about the human scale problem and what happens when infrastructure scales but understanding doesn't. If you've been following along, you know the thesis: our tools have outpaced our ability to operate them, and platform engineering is how we're fighting back. But here's...
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Mar 23, 2026
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Manage SQL database schemas in VS Code: Publish dialog and item templates

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Iqra Shaikh
Making schema changes often means jumping between tools. You write code in VS Code, then switch to a separate tool to deploy your changes : exporting a script, running it manually, or copy-pasting into a query editor. Either way, it pulls you out of your flow. With the latest updates to...
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Mar 23, 2026
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Generative AI for Beginners .NET: Version 2 on .NET 10

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Announcement of Version 2 of Generative AI for Beginners .NET, a free course rebuilt for .NET 10 with Microsoft.Extensions.AI, updated RAG patterns, and new agent framework content across five structured lessons for building production-ready AI apps.
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