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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...
Read moreClick to read more about this postWhen Infrastructure Scales But Understanding Doesn't
We all know this, even if we don't like to admit it: modern infrastructure can scale infinitely, but human understanding doesn't.
We've all seen it happen - organizations going from managing dozens of servers to thousands of containers, from deploying weekly to deploying hundreds of...
Read moreClick to read more about this postAuthentication Tokens Are Not a Data Contract
Authentication tokens exist to answer one question: is this caller authorized to do this?
They are not intended to be a stable data interface, a schema you can depend on, or an input into application logic.
If your application decodes tokens and reads claims from them, this is an...
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Mar 17, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386, second try
Appeasing the invisible return address predictor.
The Old New Thing
Mar 17, 2026
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Azure DevOps Remote MCP Server (public preview)
When we released the local Azure DevOps MCP Server, it gave customers a way to connect Azure DevOps data with tools like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code through GitHub Copilot Chat. The next step was to make this experience easier to get started with and to enable it for services...
Azure DevOps Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Foundry Agent Service is GA: private networking, Voice Live, and enterprise-grade evaluations
Bala,
jeffhollan,
Nick
The next-gen Foundry Agent Service is generally available today with end-to-end private networking, Voice Live integration, expanded MCP authentication, GA evaluations with continuous monitoring, and hosted agent deployments in six new Azure regions.
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins!
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI responses from GitHub Copilot. We were hoping for maybe one community contribution per...
Microsoft for Developers
Mar 16, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB at FOSSASIA Summit 2026: Sessions, Conversations, and Community
The FOSSASIA Summit 2026 was an incredible gathering of developers, open-source contributors, startups, and technology enthusiasts from across the region. This year, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure DocumentDB were present at the summit with both technical sessions and a dedicated booth, giving...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Get the Inside Scoop on Visual Studio Subscriptions, Straight to Your Inbox
Get the Inside Scoop on Visual Studio Subscriptions, Straight to Your Inbox
A few weeks ago I was talking with a Visual Studio Enterprise subscriber. Seasoned .NET developer. Ships production code. Knows his stack inside and out.
During the conversation I mentioned one of...
Visual Studio Blog
Mar 16, 2026
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Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC
Doing the math backwards.
The Old New Thing
Mar 16, 2026
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Now Generally Available: Cosmos DB Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric with Private Networks
We’re excited to announce the general availability of private network support for Azure Cosmos DB mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, enabling customers to replicate operational data into Fabric from Azure Cosmos DB accounts secured with private endpoints or virtual networks while continuing...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Mar 13, 2026
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The Human Scale Problem in Platform Engineering
Diego,
Ray
We keep doing this thing where we solve a problem, celebrate the victory, then realize we've created three new problems we didn't even know existed.
Remember when manually configuring servers was the bottleneck? So we built containers. Great! Now we're orchestrating thousands of them....
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