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Get started with GitHub Copilot CLI: A free, hands-on course
Learn GitHub Copilot CLI with this free, 8-chapter hands-on course. Review code, generate tests, debug issues, and build custom agents and skills - all from your terminal. No AI experience needed. Works with GitHub Copilot Free. Clone the repo or open in Codespaces to get started.
Read moreClick to read more about this postPlatform Engineering for the Agentic AI era
For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language...
Read moreClick to read more about this postVisual Studio at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026
Join us at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026 for a deep dive into Visual Studio, GitHub Copilot, PowerToys, and the Windows tools that speed up your daily dev workflow. We'll show how these tools work together to boost productivity and cut friction across your entire inner loop.
Session...
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Mar 16, 2026
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Foundry Agent Service is GA: private networking, Voice Live, and enterprise-grade evaluations
Bala,
jeffhollan,
Nick
The next-gen Foundry Agent Service is generally available today with end-to-end private networking, Voice Live integration, expanded MCP authentication, GA evaluations with continuous monitoring, and hosted agent deployments in six new Azure regions.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...
Microsoft for Developers
Mar 16, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB at FOSSASIA Summit 2026: Sessions, Conversations, and Community
The FOSSASIA Summit 2026 was an incredible gathering of developers, open-source contributors, startups, and technology enthusiasts from across the region. This year, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB were present at the summit with both technical sessions and a dedicated booth, giving...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Get the Inside Scoop on Visual Studio Subscriptions, Straight to Your Inbox
Get the Inside Scoop on Visual Studio Subscriptions, Straight to Your Inbox
A few weeks ago I was talking with a Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber. Seasoned .NET developer. Ships production code. Knows his stack inside and out.
During the conversation I mentioned one of...
Visual Studio Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC
Doing the math backwards.
The Old New Thing
Mar 16, 2026
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Now Generally Available: Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric with Private Networks
We’re excited to announce the general availability of private network support for Azure Cosmos DB mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, enabling customers to replicate operational data into Fabric from Azure Cosmos DB accounts secured with private endpoints or virtual networks while continuing...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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The Human Scale Problem in Platform Engineering
Diego,
Ray
We keep doing this thing where we solve a problem, celebrate the victory, then realize we've created three new problems we didn't even know existed.
Remember when manually configuring servers was the bottleneck? So we built containers. Great! Now we're orchestrating thousands of them....
All things Azure
Mar 13, 2026
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March Patches for Azure DevOps Server
We are releasing patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay on the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The latest release, Azure DevOps Server, is available from the download page.
This patch addresses an...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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Azure Developer CLI (azd): Debug hosted AI agents from your terminal
New azd ai agent show and monitor commands help you diagnose hosted AI agent failures directly from the CLI.
Azure SDK Blog