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[Launched] Generally Available: The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Taiwan North region
The Archive access tier for Azure Blob Storage is now generally available in the Taiwan North region.With this...
[In preview] Public preview: Support for large volume breakthrough mode
Breakthrough mode in Azure NetApp Files enables extreme performance and scalability for demanding HPC and EDA...
[In preview] Public Preview: Threat Detection in Azure Backup powered by MDC
Azure Backup has introduced threat detection capabilities for Azure VM backups, powered by Microsoft Defender for...
Why context engineering will define the next era of enterprise AI
Enterprises have spent the past two years determining which large language model they should use. GPT or Claude?...
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...
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...
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...
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...