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Agent Harness: Scaling the claw or harness capabilities

Part 3 of Build your own claw and harness with Microsoft Agent Framework. In Part 2 our personal finance assistant learned to work with your data safely: it reads your portfolio, asks before it trades, and remembers what matters across sessions. It's useful - but everything it knows is...
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Don't rewrite your CLI for agents

There's advice making the rounds: replace your CLI args with a single --json payload so agents can use your tool more effectively. The thinking being, that agents already think in structured formats, and nested data maps cleanly to JSON. Flat args on the other hand, force awkward...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Announcing the Public Preview of Integrated Embeddings in Azure Cosmos DB: Build AI Apps With Embeddings That Stay in Sync

Abhishek Gupta
AI applications built on Azure Cosmos DB depend on embeddings for grounded results. Keeping them in sync with your data is the hard part: it means building and operating a separate data pipeline to track changes, call an embedding model, and write the results back to Azure Cosmos DB. In...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Introducing OmniVec: An Open-Source Embedding Platform for AI Apps on Azure

Abhishek Gupta
Today we are open-sourcing OmniVec, a platform for building and operating the embedding pipelines that keep the vector representation of your operational data in sync as it changes. You register data sources, embedding model(s), vector stores (destination), and OmniVec does the rest:...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Azure DocumentDB – General Availability of Service-Managed Failovers

Abinav Rameesh
We are excited to announce the general availability of service-managed failovers in Azure DocumentDB, eliminating the need for human intervention to recover from a regional outage. Running a production database means planning for the unlikely. Regional outages are rare, but when they...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Instant Free Tier Clusters in Azure DocumentDB

Abinav Rameesh
Feedback from developers using Azure DocumentDB consistently pointed to one small but still impactful item on their wish list: provisioning a free tier cluster took a few minutes. For a developer just getting started, or an agentic workflow spinning up ephemeral clusters to validate a...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB All Versions and Deletes Change Feed Mode is Now Generally Available

Justine Cocchi
Modern applications don't just write data and move on. They react to it. A new order triggers an inventory update. A profile change syncs to a search index. A deleted record kicks off a compliance workflow. Azure Cosmos DB's change feed makes this possible by giving you a real-time stream...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Change Partition Keys in Azure Cosmos DB is Now Generally Available

Richa Gaur
We're excited to announce the general availability of Change Partition Key in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL, now with online copy support. You can repartition containers directly in the Azure portal with near-zero downtime and without stopping writes to the source container. Why Partition...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Change Streams in Azure DocumentDB: Richer Events, Historical Replay, and Multi-Node Change Streams (Public Preview)

Avijit Gupta
Real-time, event-driven applications are now the expectation, not the exception. Teams want dashboards that update the instant something happens, microservices that react the moment data lands, and pipelines that move changes downstream without polling a database on a timer. Since Change...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Graceful Failovers in Azure DocumentDB - Now Generally Available

Abinav Rameesh
We are excited to announce the general availability of graceful failovers in Azure DocumentDB. Not every region switch is because of availability loss. Whether you're migrating your primary workload to a different Azure region or proactively moving ahead of a forecasted...
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Jun 2, 2026
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Announcing the General Availability of Per Partition Automatic Failover for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL

Sushant Rane
Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of Per Partition Automatic Failover (PPAF) for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL API. PPAF is a significant advancement in how Azure Cosmos DB delivers availability and resilience for mission-critical workloads running on single-write-region...
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