I dug into the Azure blog post “Cloud Cost Optimization: Principles that still matter” to see how cost best practices hold up as AI workloads become mainstream. The piece is a clear reminder that the fundamentals — measuring spend, enforcing…

I came across a clear, hands-on walkthrough on Forcewake that digs into “Skills for Copilot Studio” and how Microsoft is moving toward YAML-native agents for building AI coding tools. The post explains how Copilot Studio’s new skills model lets you…

I noticed Azure Databricks now supports Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7 via Azure Databricks AI Model Serving — described as “Anthropic’s most capable hybrid reasoning model” — and it promises stronger performance on complex extraction and agentic reasoning tasks. For anyone…

I just read a practical walk-through on using Azure SRE Agent to automate AKS incident response, and it’s a neat example of taking an alert all the way to verified recovery without waking the whole on-call team. The post shows…

I noticed Azure confirmed that Azure Functions runtime v3 — officially retired on December 13, 2022 — will be forcibly turned off for Linux Consumption–based Function Apps on September 30, 2026. As the update puts it, this enforcement is “part…

I noticed that Azure Backup has gone GA with a “simplified experience” that lets you configure backups for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters using a single Azure CLI command — a welcome shortcut from the previous multi-step process that required…

I noticed that Azure Backup is now generally available to configure backup for AKS clusters using a “single Azure CLI command,” which is a nice simplification from the multiple manual steps previously required; it streamlines enabling protection and required components…

I just went through the Tech Community post “Approaches to Integrating Azure Databricks with Microsoft Fabric: The Better Together Story!” and it’s a very practical, hands‑on roundup of eight distinct integration patterns. The authors lay out step‑by‑step options — from…

I just read a Microsoft Security Blog post about a real-world domain compromise where attackers moved quickly — and how predictive shielding helped slow them down. The write-up shows that exposure-based containment can be decisive: by rapidly reducing the attack…

I’m spotlighting the Agents League winner in the Reasoning Agents track: CertPrep Multi‑Agent System by Athiq Ahmed, built on Microsoft Foundry. It’s a neat example of agentic AI done right — a pipeline of specialized agents that turn free‑form learner…

I dove into Microsoft’s Foundry Toolkit for VS Code now that it’s generally available, and it’s impressively comprehensive. From a Model Catalog with 100+ cloud and local models to the Model Playground where you can compare models side-by-side and generate…

I just read Microsoft’s walkthrough of how HTTP Triggers in the Azure SRE Agent turn a routine Terraform drift webhook into a full autonomous investigation. Rather than delivering only “a list of differences,” the agent ingests the webhook, correlates drift…

I just tried out the new connectors in Azure SRE Agent — you can now connect Log Analytics workspaces and Application Insights resources directly, backed by the Azure MCP Server. That means the agent can query ContainerLog, Syslog, AzureDiagnostics, KubeEvents,…

I checked out a neat experiment on Forcewake where the author ran “pi” on a Qwen3.6 35B A3B model served via llama-server. I tried to follow the same flow — host the model locally with llama-server, prompt it to generate…

I’m excited about Azure API Center’s public preview of the plugin marketplace endpoint. It creates a single, governed place to discover and install AI plugins (MCP servers and skills) directly from tools developers already use — like Claude Code and…

I found the All Things Azure post on pairing GitHub Copilot with microVMs via Docker Sandbox a neat solution to a stubborn problem: modernizing legacy code that relies on hardcoded paths and complex build scripts. The key is Docker Sandbox’s…