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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...
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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...
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May 19, 2025
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Faster .NET Upgrades Powered by GitHub Copilot

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McKenna Barlow
Introducing GitHub Copilot app modernization – Upgrade for .NET You probably don’t look forward to the process of modernizing your applications. It can be time consuming, risky, and full of manual toil. Today we’re changing that. We’re thrilled to introduce the public preview...
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May 19, 2025
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How Azure AI Foundry and Partners Simplify Governance Without Slowing Developers Down

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Mehrnoosh Sameki
Read more about how Azure AI Foundry integrates with governance platforms like Saidot, Credo AI, and Microsoft Purview Compliance Manager to streamline AI governance. By embedding evaluation tools directly into development workflows, Azure AI Foundry helps users with governance requirements without compromising developer velocity, .
Azure AI Foundry Blog
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May 19, 2025
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What’s new in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL at Microsoft Build 2025

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Building modern, scalable applications often comes with the challenge of managing and scaling your database infrastructure. That’s exactly why we built Azure Cosmos DB – to provide a fast, flexible NoSQL database service that frees you from the operational heavy lifting. With...
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May 19, 2025
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Coding the Future of AI with Azure AI Foundry API and SDK

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Dan Taylor
The Azure AI Foundry SDK, simplifying AI app development with a unified project client and REST API, offers capabilities like model inference, orchestration, and observability, enabling developers to build and manage AI applications efficiently.
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May 19, 2025
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Announcing Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini on Azure AI Foundry

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Vaidyaraman Sambasivam
Read more about the launch of Grok 3 on Azure AI Foundry Models. Combining xAI's model with Azure's robust platform, Grok 3 offers powerful capabilities for building intelligent assistants, processing large documents, and exploring new AI frontiers. Head over to Azure AI Foundry and give Grok 3 a try.
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May 19, 2025
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Achieve End-to-End Observability in Azure AI Foundry

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Announcing public preview of Azure AI Foundry Observability, a unified solution for governance, evaluation, tracing, and monitoring in AI development. This innovative tool empowers teams to confidently ship production-grade AI by providing continuous visibility across the entire AI application lifecycle, from model selection to real-time debugging.
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May 19, 2025
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Microsoft and Hugging Face expand collaboration to accelerate Open-Source AI Innovation on Azure AI Foundry

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Vaidyaraman Sambasivam
Microsoft and Hugging Face announce an expanded collaboration that puts over ten thousand Hugging Face models at the fingertips of Azure developers.
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May 19, 2025
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MSSQL Extension for VS Code: New UI Goes GA and GitHub Copilot Enters Preview

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Carlos Robles
The SQL development experience is taking a major leap forward with the MSSQL Extension for VS Code. The MSSQL extension is evolving to meet the needs of modern developers, bringing powerful, intelligent, and intuitive capabilities directly into your daily workflow. With this release,...
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Boost Query Performance with Global Secondary Indexes in Azure Cosmos DB

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Justine Cocchi
Global secondary indexes for Azure Cosmos DB—now in Public Preview—make it easier to query data efficiently, especially as your datasets grow.  Distributed databases like Azure Cosmos DB scale with dataset growth by partitioning data across multiple physical machines. When your...
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