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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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Apr 22, 2026
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Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables
So-called "fractal page mapping".
The Old New Thing
Apr 22, 2026
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Public Preview: Actual Result for Manual Tests in Azure Test Plans
We're excited to announce the public preview of the highly anticipated Actual Result (AR) feature for manual testing in Azure Test Plans! This feature has been one of the top requests of the community, and we're thrilled to make it available for you.
Why use the Actual Result...
Azure DevOps Blog
Apr 21, 2026
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I Wasted 68 Minutes a Day Re-Explaining My Code. Then I Built auto-memory.
~1,900 lines of Python. Zero dependencies. Saves you an hour a day.
GitHub → · pip install auto-memory
Now give Copilot CLI enhanced context recall. Point it at deploy/install.md and let it cook. 🍳
Are you tired of using the slash /compact command every 10 min?
The...
All things Azure
Apr 21, 2026
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Azure SDK Release (April 2026)
Azure SDK releases every month. In this post, you'll find this month's highlights and release notes.
Azure SDK Blog
Apr 21, 2026
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Getting Started with Agentic DevOps – Part 1: Foundations
This post is the first in a 3-part series:
Foundations (this post)
Start shipping (context engineering, MCP servers, orchestration)
App modernization (Java, .NET, PHP, microservices)
Bookmark this post for quick reference as you start exploring Agentic DevOps. It will be...
All things Azure
Apr 21, 2026
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The Polyglot tax – Part 4
The Agent-Ready Database: Security, Backup, and MCP
Part 4 of 4 – The Multi-Model Database Series
This is the final post in a four-part series on multi-model databases in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL - exploring how the optimizer, storage engine, and security layer treat each data...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Apr 21, 2026
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.NET 10.0.7 Out-of-Band Security Update
We are releasing .NET 10.0.7 as an out-of-band security update to address CVE-2026-40372.
.NET Blog
Apr 21, 2026
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Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta
Today we are absolutely thrilled to announce the release of TypeScript 7.0 Beta!
If you haven't been following TypeScript 7.0's development, this release is significant in that it is built on a completely new foundation.
Over the past year, we have been porting the existing TypeScript...
TypeScript
Apr 21, 2026
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General Availability: Dynamic Data Masking for Azure Cosmos DB
Protecting sensitive data is a foundational requirement for modern applications. As organizations scale their use of Azure Cosmos DB across teams, environments, and workloads, controlling who can see sensitive information becomes increasingly important.
Today, we are excited to...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog