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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 5, 2026
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Generative AI with Large Language Models in C# in 2026
A practical introduction to modern AI for .NET developers.
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Jan 5, 2026
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How can you swap two non-adjacent blocks of memory using only forward iterators?
Applying the rotation trick to our new problem.
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Jan 5, 2026
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Welcome to 2026, A Growth Year for All of Us
I always enjoy the quiet stretch between Christmas and New Year’s. It’s one of the few moments in the year when things slow down just enough to reflect on what actually resonated.
While many of us were unplugging, our digital team was doing the opposite, editing and publishing 19...
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Jan 2, 2026
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How can you swap two adjacent blocks of memory using only forward iterators?
A different algorithm, employing a different kind of cleverness.
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Jan 1, 2026
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Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant memory
A variation on the constant-memory rotation.
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Dec 31, 2025
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Java at Microsoft: 2025 Year in Review
A breakthrough year for modernization, AI‑assisted development, Agentic AI development, and platform innovation
2025 was one of the most significant years yet for Java at Microsoft. From the arrival of OpenJDK 25 as the newest Long‑Term Support (LTS) release, to AI‑powered...
Microsoft for Java Developers
Dec 31, 2025
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Top .NET Videos & Live Streams of 2025
Let's take a look back at the amazing .NET videos, events, and live streams from 2025!
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Dec 31, 2025
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2025 year-end link clearance
Another year gets relegated to history.
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Dec 31, 2025
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Understanding and mitigating a stack overflow in our task sequencer
The recurring problem of synchronous resumption.
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