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Gloridel Morales details the March patch release for Azure DevOps Server, providing guidance on installation, verification, and who needs the update for secure DevOps operations.
Satya Nadella shares a milestone for Microsoft, leading the cloud market by validating the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system—a foundational building block for future AI infrastructure.
Diego Casati and Ray Kao explore the challenges of scaling platform engineering processes, focusing on specialization, tool complexity, and the growing role of AI-powered collaboration in the Azure ecosystem.
PuiChee (PC) Chan explains how to use new Azure Developer CLI (azd) commands to diagnose and debug hosted AI agent failures, providing developers with direct access to container status and live logs from the terminal.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces Ontology Rules and Fabric Activator integration in Fabric IQ, showing how business logic can now drive real-time actions using enterprise data models.
Microsoft Fabric Blog details how VS Code users can now deploy SQL database schema changes directly to Fabric, streamlining data engineering workflows. Author Microsoft Fabric Blog explains new publish dialog and item templates, improving productivity for database and application development teams.
The Microsoft Fabric Blog team showcases how agentic AI apps can be operationalized for production with Microsoft Fabric, highlighting real-time monitoring, data governance, and analytics.
Vlad Fedorov discusses the recent series of GitHub outages, pinpointing their technical causes and highlighting steps—such as a major migration to Azure—that GitHub's engineering team is taking to improve reliability and incident response for developers.
stclarke highlights the launch of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, enabling developers to deploy and customize high-performance open models within Azure, tackling both experimentation and enterprise production needs.
stclarke explores Microsoft’s rollout of agentic AI tools Azure Copilot and GitHub Copilot for unified modernization workflows, highlighting features that streamline cloud migration and application transformation for IT and development teams.
Maria Bledsoe examines how agentic AI and cloud technologies are accelerating modernization in regulated sectors, focusing on healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.
stclarke announces 'The Shift' podcast, a new Microsoft series delving into agentic AI, cloud engineering, and data strategy with insights from product teams and technical leaders.
Microsoft Fabric Blog details how ExtractLabel in Fabric AI Functions lets data engineers and scientists extract structured information from unstructured text using AI, JSON schema contracts, and scalable data platforms.
Chris Harris introduces the Azure Skills Plugin, showcasing how agents like GitHub Copilot can automate Azure deployments with curated skills, MCP tooling, and Foundry integration.
Justin Yoo details how to build a production-ready AI interview coach using Microsoft Agent Framework, Foundry, MCP, and Aspire, sharing multi-agent orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and .NET integration strategies.
Jim Harrer introduces Visual Studio Dev Essentials, Microsoft's free developer program, offering a suite of tools, cloud credits, downloads, and learning resources designed to support every developer.
Nick Brady rounds up February 2026's major Microsoft Foundry updates—including the arrival of frontier AI models, Agent Framework RC, REST API GA, SDK previews, and architectural innovations for developers and machine learning practitioners.
Don Scott summarizes key findings from Forrester's study on Microsoft Foundry, detailing how Microsoft Azure's centralized AI platform boosts developer productivity, streamlines governance, and enables organizations to scale AI outcomes effectively.
Naomi Moneypenny introduces GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Pro in Microsoft Foundry, outlining their enhanced capabilities for enterprise AI production environments and providing guidance on deployment and pricing.
Microsoft Fabric Blog presents a step-by-step guide to configuring secure, private network data streaming to Fabric using Eventstream connectors. The article walks through prerequisites, Azure integration, security considerations, and best practices for technical implementation.