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Real time data processing with new Azure Cosmos DB change feed modes

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

The Azure Cosmos DB change feed allows applications to seamlessly react to real time changes to data! It’s a persistent record of changes to items in your container in the order they occurred. Instead of writing complex code to query recently modified documents, manually track checkpointing, and handle retries for errors in processing, the ...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Turbocharge your Visual Studio experience with Microsoft Dev Box

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Ruben Rios

Microsoft Dev Box is a managed service that enables developers to create on-demand, high-performance, secure & ready-to-code workstations in the cloud. It gives companies the ability to pre-configure the development environment with all the tools needed to build, test, and deploy applications making developers more productive, regardless ...

Visual Studio Blog

Microsoft Dev Box for Microsoft engineers

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Josh Zimmerman

We’re in an exciting time for technology. But to take advantage of the opportunities, it’s critical for developers to have access to the tools and resources that can help them stay productive and do their best work. At Microsoft, we’re migrating many of our developers to highly productive…

Engineering@Microsoft

Do more with granular control in new backup features for Azure Cosmos DB at low cost

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Govind Kanshi

This blog post and the features are brought to you by Vinh Trinh, Mayank Katwal, Amit Singh, Kshittiz Kumar, Vineet Kumar, Dinesh Kumar, Chuck Skelton, Sidney Andrews, Joe Dennis, Venkata Sivaramakrishna Ramadugu & Govind Kanshi from the Azure Cosmos DB team Azure Cosmos DB team is pleased to share exciting announcements. The ...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

On creating (and using) a transforming iterator

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Raymond Chen

It lets you change the thing being iterated over, on the fly.

The Old New Thing

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps public preview starts now!

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Aaron Hallberg

In October of last year we announced that GitHub Advanced Security was coming to Azure DevOps, starting with a private preview in November. Since then, we’ve been working hard on the product and incorporating feedback from our private preview customers. Today, we are excited to announce that GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps is ...

Azure DevOps Blog

Plugging into Jira from Semantic Kernel

May 22, 2023 May 22, 2023 05/22/23

Vivien Hung , Lee Miller

Have you ever wished you could access Jira data and functionality from within your chat conversations? Do you want to make your chat interactions more productive, collaborative, and intelligent? If so, you will love the new Jira connector feature in Copilot chat starter app. In this blog post, we will show you how you can use Jira connector ...

Semantic Kernel

Announcing Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro

May 22, 2023 May 22, 2023 05/22/23

Matt McCleary , Sam Spencer

The Azure Monitor Open Telemetry distro has just been released. This library enables monitoring ASP.NET Core apps with Azure monitor a one line change, based on the infrastructure of Open Telemetry for .NET.

.NET Blog

Power Platform Developer Tools April Update

May 22, 2023 May 22, 2023 05/22/23

Kartik Kanakasabesan

We are delighted to announce our latest update for the Power Platform Developers tools and Power Platform Command line. Yes, you are right we had an update last month, but we did not blog about it, so we are going to make it up in this announcement, so let us get going. pac auth create single sign-on on Windows Pac auth create is optional on...

Power Platform Developer Blog