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The truth about Python’s AI-powered popularity surge
Python’s popularity is surging thanks to AI, but also its power and ease of use. Editable installs for Python packages...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Databricks connector for Microsoft Power Platform
Azure Databricks connector for Power Platform is now generally available. You can easily connect Azure Databricks with...
Wassette: A bridge between Wasm and MCP
Microsoft’s fascination with AI agents as a tool for developers continues with Wassette, a new open source release...
Monitoring microservices: Best practices for robust systems
Microservices architecture, while offering exceptional agility and scalability, introduces a new layer of complexity...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra v5.0
You can now use Cassandra 5.0 in Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, available in public preview. This...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in Malaysia West
Now you can deploy Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server in the Malaysia West Azure region. Learn more.
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) encryption with customer-managed key
Data stored in your Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB (vCore) cluster is automatically and seamlessly encrypted with keys...
[Launched] Generally Available: Deployment resumption – Azure Automation revised Service and Subscription limits
After a brief hiatus, Azure Automation is resuming deployments of the revised Service and Subscription limits from...
Claude Sonnet 4 upgrade enables full codebase processing in a single request
Anthropic has expanded the capabilities of its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model to handle up to one million tokens of context,...
Hands-on with Svelte: Build-time compilation in a reactive framework
Svelte introduced the idea of using a compiler to optimize and transform specialized syntax into front-end components....
Five kinds of static code coupling
Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of the coupling of code. We all agree that loosely coupled code is...
Rubrik unveils ‘undo button’ for AI agent mistakes
Rubrik has announced Agent Rewind, software that provides visibility into agent actions and enables enterprises to...
Devops, SRE and platform engineering: What’s the difference?
Many modern development teams incorporate devops, site reliability engineering (SRE), and platform engineering — or at...
A developer’s guide to code generation
I started my career as an architect and coder working on AI algorithms for image processing, natural language...
The rise of AI model-as-a-service ecosystems
The rapid growth of model catalogs from hyperscalers and third-party providers is creating an environment where the...
Rust 1.89 underscores arguments to const generics
The Rust team has released Rust 1.89.0 stable, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features...
[In preview] Public Preview: Announcing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts in Azure Monitor
Introducing Tenant-Level Service Health Alerts - a new preview capability in Azure Monitor that enables customers to...
[In preview] Public Preview: Introducing Azure App Testing: Scalable End-to-end App Validation
Azure App Testing now enables developers and QA teams to run large-scale functional and performance tests to pinpoint...
[Launched] General Available: App Service Inbound IPv6 Support
Inbound IPv6 support on public multi-tenant App Service is now generally available across all public Azure regions for...
[Launched] Generally Available: Upsert and Script Activity in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Announcing the general availability of the Upsert method and Script activity support in Azure Data Factory and Azure...