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What is A2A? How the agent-to-agent protocol enables autonomous collaboration
The gist A2A is an open, vendor-neutral protocol that allows diverse AI agents to seamlessly communicate, coordinate,...
How to automate the testing of AI agents
Testing APIs and applications was challenging in the early devops days. As teams sought to advance their CI/CD...
Do you really need all those GPUs?
For years, the narrative around artificial intelligence has centered on GPUs (graphics processing units) and their...
[In preview] Public Preview: Query-based metric alerts in Azure Monitor
Azure Monitor metric alerts now support all Azure metrics - including platform, Prometheus, and custom metrics -...
Aspire 13 bolsters Python, JavaScript support
Microsoft has released Aspire 13, the latest version of the company’s tool kit for building distributed, cloud-native...
[In preview] Public Preview: Introducing SDK Stats to the Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro
As part of our journey to make Azure the most observable cloud, we are adding a new way for you to observe your Azure...
[Launched] Generally Available: Visual Studio 2026
Visual Studio 2026 is the next evolution of the world’s most trusted IDE—modernized with AI deeply integrated into...
[Launched] Generally Available: Seamless failback for HyperV-to-Azure: Managed Disk support in Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery now enables failback from Azure VMs to on-premises Hyper-V, even if replication from on-premises...
[In preview] Public Preview: Support for Linux major OS upgrades with Azure Site Recovery
You can now perform major Linux OS version upgrades — without disabling Azure Site Recovery, interrupting their...
[In preview] Public Preview: Support 5x churn in Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery now supports up to 5x churn (500 MB/s per VM). This major enhancement empowers customers to...
[Launched] Generally Available: Capacity guidance for Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery now offers alternative VM Size recommendations during ASR failover when the current target VM Size...
North Korea’s ‘Job Test’ trap upgrades to JSON malware dropboxes
North Korea-linked Contagious Interview campaign is now luring developers with trojanized coding tasks and pulling...
Why software development slows to a crawl
An engineer refreshes a pull request page for the fourth time. New comments appear. More reviewers get tagged. The...
10 JavaScript-based tools and frameworks for AI and machine learning
Many developers associate machine learning and large language models with Python. That makes sense because Python was...
The rebellion against robot drivel
The robots may be taking over, but no one seems to like how they talk. In theory, the robots (by which I mean...
Worm flooding npm registry with token stealers still isn’t under control
A coordinated token farming campaign continues to flood the open source npm registry, with tens of thousands of...
Red Hat Linux bolsters AI assistance
Red Hat has released two updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), versions 10.1 and 9.7, with the new releases...
Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October 1st, 2026
On October 1, 2026 extended support for Python 3.10 will end. Your apps that are hosted on App Service will continue...
Retirement: Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc
Announcing the retirement of Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc in October 2026.
[In preview] Public Preview: Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS
Pod CIDR expansion in Azure CNI Overlay for AKS is now available in public preview. To meet the growing demands of...