Cloud fragility is costing us billions

It was supposed to be a routine Tuesday. Employees trickled into the office of a mid-sized logistics company; some grabbed coffee, others settled at their desks. As they tried to access their shipment-tracking dashboards, schedule pickups, or even log in to the HR...

Four important lessons about context engineering

Context engineering has emerged as one of the most critical skills in working with large language models (LLMs). While much attention has been paid to prompt engineering, the art and science of managing context—i.e., the information the model has access to when...

Agentic cloud ops with the new Azure Copilot

Microsoft unveiled its awkwardly named Copilot in Azure back in 2024. That was followed by the Azure Model Context Protocol Server, called from the GitHub Copilot agent in Visual Studio Code. Now, Microsoft is putting the band back together, with a new Azure Copilot...