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[In preview] Public Preview: Application routing with meshless Istio in AKS
Following the deprecation of ingress‑nginx, Kubernetes operators need a supported, standards‑aligned migration path...
[In preview] Public Preview: Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Application Network
As Kubernetes environments scale across regions and clusters, IP‑based networking becomes difficult to manage and...
[In preview] Retirement: Ingest OTLP data into Azure Monitor with the OpenTelemetry Collector
Azure Monitor now supports native ingestion of OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) signals, enabling you to send telemetry...
New ‘StoatWaffle’ malware auto‑executes attacks on developers
A newly disclosed malware strain dubbed “StoatWaffle” is giving fresh teeth to the notorious, developer-targeting...
An architecture for engineering AI context
Ensuring reliable and scalable context management in production environments is one of the most persistent challenges...
VS Code now updates weekly
With Microsoft now releasing stable updates to its Visual Studio Code editor weekly instead of just monthly, VS Code...
When Windows 11 sneezes, Azure catches cold
If you look at Microsoft as a collection of product lines, it is easy to conclude that Windows 11 and Azure occupy...
Designing self-healing microservices with recovery-aware redrive frameworks
Cloud-native microservices are built for resilience, but true fault tolerance requires more than automatic retries. In...
7 safeguards for observable AI agents
Many organizations are under pressure to take their AI agent experiments and proof of concepts out of pilots and into...
The agent security mess
Persistent weak layers (PWLs) have plagued my backcountry skiing for the past 10 years. They’re about to mess up the...
How to land a software development job in an AI-focused world
It seems we are in a very perplexing and somewhat worrisome time in the technology job market. Artificial intelligence...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL updates for mid-March 2026
In mid-March 2026, the following updates and enhancements were made to Azure SQL: Reduce the consumption of storage...
Retirement: Azure SQL Elastic query – Shard_Map_Manager mode
Starting March 31, 2027 Elastic query using Shard_Map_Manager external data source type reaches end of...
OpenAI’s desktop superapp: The end of ChatGPT as we know it?
OpenAI is reportedly planning to fold its ChatGPT application, Codex coding platform, and AI-powered browser into a...
Retirement: Azure Sphere will be retired on July 31, 2031
The Azure Sphere service is retiring and will stop supporting all customer application, OS, bug and security updates,...
Google’s Stitch UI design tool is now AI-powered
Google is introducing AI into its Stitch UI design tool, enabling anyone to create user-interface designs by...
Stop using AI to submit bug reports, says Google
Google will no longer accept AI-generated submissions to a program it funded to find bugs in open-source software....
The ‘toggle-away’ efficiencies: Cutting AI costs inside the training loop
“A single training run can emit as much CO₂ as five cars do in a year.” That finding from the University of...
AI optimization: How we cut energy costs in social media recommendation systems
When you scroll through Instagram Reels or browse YouTube, the seamless flow of content feels like magic. But behind...
Cloud at 20: Cost, complexity, and control
When Amazon Web Services launched its Simple Storage Service (S3) in March 2006, it sparked the imagination of IT...