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Agentic Platform Engineering with GitHub Copilot
We've talked about the human scale problem and what happens when infrastructure scales but understanding doesn't. If you've been following along, you know the thesis: our tools have outpaced our ability to operate them, and platform engineering is how we're fighting back.
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Read moreClick to read more about this postYour Entire Engineering Floor Just Stopped Coding
And the developers running Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI didn't notice...
Status Page Says 'Operational.' Your Subagents Say Otherwise.
If you're running autonomous agents in any serious capacity, you've experienced this: model provider outages aren't edge cases —...
Read moreClick to read more about this postBreaking Change Ahead: Graph API Updates to Sensitive Email Properties
On 12/31/2026, we will begin restricting updates to sensitive properties on non-draft email messages (including subject, body, and recipients). Apps will need Mail-Advanced.ReadWrite (or .All / .Shared) with admin consent to continue modifying these fields. Review your current usage and update permissions now to avoid unexpected failures.
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Dec 2, 2025
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Tata Neu delivers personalized shopping experiences for millions of users with Azure DocumentDB
With Azure DocumentDB, Tata Neu delivers seamless authentication for millions of users, accelerates credit card onboarding across partners, unifies loyalty programs for hundreds of millions of members, and powers AI-driven support experiences across more than 60 brands.
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Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Dec 2, 2025
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Profiler Agent - Delegate the analysis, not the performance
In Visual Studio 2026 we introduced Copilot Profiler Agent, a new AI-powered assistant that helps you analyze and optimize performance bottlenecks in your code. By combining the power of GitHub Copilot with Visual Studio's performance profiler, you can now ask natural language questions...
Visual Studio Blog
Dec 2, 2025
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Microspeak: Big rocks
The large obstacles.
The Old New Thing
Dec 2, 2025
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Claude Code + Microsoft Foundry: Enterprise AI Coding Agent Setup
This guide covers setting up Claude Code CLI and VS Code extension with Microsoft Foundry, configuring CLAUDE.md for project context, integrating Spec Kit for structured development, and running Claude Code in GitHub Actions.
Prerequisites
Azure subscription with Foundry access
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All things Azure
Dec 1, 2025
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AppendSelected parameter
Background
The Property parameter introduced in Version 0.10.0-preview allowed customers to select specific properties they would want to return in the response and is used in these 2 main scenarios:
To request extra properties that are not returned by...
Microsoft Entra PowerShell
Dec 1, 2025
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Data API builder’s "request-body-strict" Simplifies Client Code
Data API builder (DAB) provides REST and GraphQL endpoints over SQL Server, Azure Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Data Warehouse. The request-body-strict configuration value controls how REST endpoints treat unknown JSON properties in the payload:
* When set to true (default),...
Azure SQL Dev Corner
Dec 1, 2025
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Join the OSS AI Summit: Building with LangChain Event
December 10, 2025
8 am - 10 am Pacific
Registration: https://aka.ms/OSSAISummitRegistration
Overview
AI development is moving at a pace that leaves most teams reacting instead of leading. The next generation of applications will be built by people who understand how to design...
Microsoft for Developers
Dec 1, 2025
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The "Golden Triangle" of Agentic Development with Microsoft Agent Framework: AG-UI, DevUI & OpenTelemetry Deep Dive
In the explosive era of Agentic AI, we're not just seeking more powerful models—we're searching for a development experience that lets developers actually get some sleep. When building Agents locally, we've traditionally faced three major challenges:
Black-Box Execution: What is...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Dec 1, 2025
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Upgrade MSVC, improve C++ build performance, and refactor C++ code with GitHub Copilot
Visual Studio 2026 introduces new GitHub Copilot capabilities to support C++ developers in three development tasks:
Performing large-scale C++ refactors
Improving C++ build performance
Upgrading Microsoft C++ (MSVC) Build Tools
These experiences are...
Visual Studio Blog