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Azure Container Options: Matching Services to Operational Responsibility

Customers are looking to modernize their application on cloud and ask us for guidance on which Azure container services to choose. Should you choose A or B container services or A+B container services? Some choose both (A + B) or use A or B approach. Instead of trying to force fit...

From Manual Testing to AI-Generated Automation: Our Azure DevOps MCP + Playwright Success Story

In today’s fast-paced software development cycles, manual testing often becomes a significant bottleneck. Our team was facing a growing backlog of test cases that required repetitive manual execution—running the entire test suite every sprint. This consumed valuable time that could be...

Scalable Data Governance & Compliance with UDM

Why Data Governance Matters In today’s data-driven world, governance isn’t just a technical requirement—it’s foundational to successful business operations. Good governance ensures data is not only accurate and compliant but also discoverable and usable at scale. At the heart of...

May 21, 2025

Silly parlor tricks: Promoting a 32-bit value to a 64-bit value when you don't care about garbage in the upper bits

Raymond Chen

Inline assembly that doesn't do anything.

The Old New Thing

May 20, 2025

Announced at Build 2025: Foundry connection for Azure Cosmos DB, Global Secondary Index, full-text search, and more

Michal,

Jay

The countdown to innovation has begun: Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2025 bought several new announcements, demos, and live coding sessions to in-person and online audiences, showcasing the potential of cloud-native and AI-driven applications. Azure Cosmos DB is at the forefront of this...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

May 20, 2025

One Pipeline to Rule Them All: Ensuring CodeQL Scanning Results and Dependency Scanning Results Go to the Intended Repository

Michael Omokoh

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings In the world of code scanning and dependency scanning, your pipeline is the One Ring—a single definition that can orchestrate...

Azure DevOps Blog

May 20, 2025

Azure MCP Server - May 2025 Release

Rohit Ganguly

This post discusses the updates to the Azure MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server for Microsoft //build 2025.

Azure SDK Blog

May 20, 2025

Introducing the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit

Zhidi Shang

Read how the Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit, an evolution of Microsoft Teams Toolkit, is designed to help developers build agents and apps for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365.

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

May 20, 2025

Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories - Your path to Agentic AI

Aaron Hallberg

GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requests and responding to feedback, and much more. These new capabilities will transform...

Microsoft for Developers

May 20, 2025

Announcing Azure Command Launcher for Java

Bruno Borges

Optimizing JVM Configuration for Azure Deployments Tuning the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for cloud deployments is notoriously challenging. Over 30% of developers tend to deploy Java workloads with no JVM configuration at all, therefore relying on the default settings of the HotSpot JVM....

Microsoft for Java Developers

May 20, 2025