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Retirement: hsmPlatform 1 Keys in Azure Key Vault
As part of our ongoing commitment to improving security and performance, we will be retiring support for hsmPlatform 1...
Survey pinpoints Rust compiler pain points
Overall, developers using Rust are satisfied with Rust compilation performance, but slow builds and rebuilds in...
[Launched] Generally Available: Enabling dedicated connections to backends in Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway V2 now supports enabling dedicated connections from Application Gateway to backend server....
[Launched] Generally Available: Backend TLS validation controls in Azure Application Gateway
Azure Application Gateway V2 announces general availability of customer-controlled backend TLS validations. When the...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure SQL hub experience in Azure portal
Choosing the right Azure SQL service can be challenging. To make this easier, you can now visit the Azure SQL hub, a...
Retirement: Azure Linux 2.0 on AKS
Azure Linux 2.0 on AKS will be retired on November 30, 2025, please transition to Azure Linux 3.0 by that date. Azure...
More hardware won’t fix bad engineering
As an industry, we’ve gotten good at buying our way out of bad decisions. Need more throughput? Add instances. Tail...
Down and out with Cerebras Code
When a vendor offered 2000 tokens per second (TPS) of Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct (aka Qwen3 Coder) for $50...
AI developer certifications tech companies want
Cloud computing and cybersecurity are among the featured players on the contemporary software development stage, but...
2-agent architecture: Separating context from execution in AI systems
When I first started experimenting with voice AI agents for real-world tasks like restaurant reservations and customer...
Databricks at a crossroads: Can its AI strategy prevail without Naveen Rao?
Databricks finds itself in an awkward situation following the departure of Naveen Rao, its head of artificial...
Kotlin 2.2.20 boosts WebAssembly support
Kotlin 2.2.20 has been released, with the latest version of the concise, multiplatform, “pragmatic” programming...
[Launched] Generally Available: Bring Your Own License (BYOL) Support for JBoss EAP on Azure App Service
Announcong that Azure App Service now supports Bring Your Own License (BYOL) for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) same-region replica cluster
You can now create a replica cluster of your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) in the same region where the primary...
The hidden threat to AI performance
Most of us involved with AI are aware (or are quickly becoming aware) that memory bandwidth isn’t keeping pace with...
When it comes to AI, bigger isn’t always better
Enterprise AI tends to default to large language models (LLMs), overlooking small language models (SLMs). But bigger...
Making good choices: How to get the best from Python tools
The way to get the best from Python, aka “the lingua franca of AI,” is by knowing both its traps and its treasures....
VS Code 1.104 emphasizes AI model selection, agent security
Visual Studio Code 1.104, the latest release of Microsoft’s popular code editor, features flexibility for models in...
How LinkedIn built an agentic AI platform
Basic chatbots get much of the publicity associated with modern AI platforms, but they have limited use cases,...
How to implement caching in ASP.NET Core minimal APIs
When working with ASP.NET Core applications, there are several ways in which you can enhance your application’s...