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Choosing the Right Azure Hosting Model for AI Agents: A Deep Dive into Foundry Hosted Agents
AI agents are quickly moving from experiments to production‑critical components of modern applications. But while many teams know how to build agents, far fewer are confident they’re hosting them on the right foundation.
Most organizations start by deploying agents the same way...
Read moreClick to read more about this postOne-click security scanning and org-wide alert triage come to Advanced Security
We're shipping two major capabilities that change how security teams enable and act on application security in Azure DevOps: CodeQL default setup makes it possible to enable code scanning across your organization without configuring a single pipeline, and a new combined alerts experience...
Read moreClick to read more about this postDevOps Playbook for the Agentic Era
Practices, Principles, and Strategic Direction
Software delivery has entered a new phase. AI agents are no longer confined to autocomplete suggestions in the editor. They are opening pull requests, generating code across multiple files, proposing infrastructure changes, responding to...
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Jan 7, 2026
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The Realities of Application Modernization with Agentic AI (Early 2026)
How to read this article
This article is a reflection based on hands-on experience and is written for engineers and technical leaders who are facing a new application modernization effort and want to build a realistic mental model before reaching for tools.
If you are new to...
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Jan 7, 2026
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Secure and Intelligent: Queryable Encryption and Vector Search in MongoDB EF Core Provider
Rishit,
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The MongoDB EF Core provider now supports Queryable Encryption and Vector Search. Learn how to encrypt sensitive data while querying it and build AI-powered semantic search applications directly with EF Core.
.NET Blog
Jan 7, 2026
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Public Preview: Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric with Private Endpoints
We are very excited to announce the public preview for private endpoint support for Azure Cosmos DB Mirroring with Microsoft Fabric mirroring. This feature allows you to preserve the enhanced network security on your data in Cosmos DB from virtual networks or private endpoints, allowing...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jan 7, 2026
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Build AI Tooling in Go with the MCP SDK – Connecting AI Apps to Databases
A hands‑on walkthrough of building MCP servers that can plug AI applications into Azure Cosmos DB
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has established itself as the ubiquitous standard for connecting AI applications to external systems. Since its release, there have...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jan 7, 2026
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How can I find out where the Windows caret is?
You'll have go to a larger scope.
The Old New Thing
Jan 6, 2026
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XAML Studio is now Open Sourced
XAML Studio Open Sourced
It's been over 8 years since what became XAML Studio was started. And from nearly the beginning, it was always envisioned as an open-source project… So, it's with great pleasure that I'm happy to announce that day has finally come!
XAML Studio is now an...
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Jan 6, 2026
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Semantic Reranking with Azure SQL, SQL Server 2025 and Cohere Rerank models
Supporting re‑ranking has been one of the most common requests lately. While not always essential, it can be a valuable addition to a solution when you want to improve the precision of your results. Unfortunately, there isn’t a universal, standardized API for a “re‑rank” call...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Jan 6, 2026
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How Azure Cosmos DB Powers ARM’s Federated Future: Scaling for the Next Billion Requests
The Cloud at Hyperscale: ARM’s Mission and Growth
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the backbone of Azure’s resource provisioning and management, orchestrating billions of daily requests from customers around the globe. ARM manages all resources for Azure: VMs, Storage, Databases,...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jan 6, 2026
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Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant memory, refinement
Could do with a little less rotating.
The Old New Thing