Browse DevOps Videos (152)

Visual Studio Code highlights a small celebratory interaction: hitting Done cues confetti. This short focuses on a visual detail in the coding environment rather than a broader technical walkthrough.

Louis Erbkamm shares how Arnis converts real-world geographic coordinates into playable Minecraft worlds using OpenStreetMap data. The video explores the project's international contributor community and how its sole maintainer uses GitHub Copilot to triage bug reports, review pull requests, and keep the project moving.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates a PostgreSQL performance troubleshooting workflow, tracing an application slowdown from initial signals to database workload and query evidence. The episode covers Azure Advisor guidance, controlled actions, result verification, and a Database Agent experience that brings issue context and recommendations together while retaining review and approval.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates how the PostgreSQL extension and GitHub Copilot help you explore an unfamiliar database. The episode covers inspecting schemas, tables, views, and functions, visualizing relationships, asking context-aware questions in Copilot Chat, and checking answers against the database to understand its data model.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates a PostgreSQL workflow combining the PostgreSQL extension’s IntelliSense and database context with GitHub Copilot. The video covers drafting, explaining, analyzing, and improving SQL queries, then running them, inspecting results, and exporting data without leaving the editor, while keeping developers in control of the final queries.

Visual Studio Code demonstrates how to bring PostgreSQL workflows into the editor using Microsoft’s PostgreSQL extension. Learn to install the extension, connect to a PostgreSQL database on Azure with Microsoft Entra ID, save connection profiles, and explore database objects without switching tools.

Microsoft Developer highlights three updates: .NET 11 is ready for serious production validation, Python 3.15 defaults to a native Arm64 runtime on Windows on ARM, and browser automation in Microsoft Foundry is generally available. The video outlines what these changes mean for developers.

John Savill reviews this week's Azure and AI updates, including networking, backup, monitoring, storage, and identity changes. Topics include Traffic Manager integration with Azure DNS, keyless TLS, Cosmos DB key rotation, Azure Databricks private networking, and Copilot Studio agent identity.

Visual Studio Code introduces a four-part video series focused on doing more PostgreSQL work directly inside VS Code, including connecting to databases, writing and optimizing SQL, using GitHub Copilot to understand database context, and troubleshooting performance, with Azure mentioned as the underlying platform for modern PostgreSQL workloads.

Marko Hotti and Patty Chow show how to build an Azure Cosmos DB app using AI-assisted development, starting from a blank folder and a product spec to generate a working travel planner. They cover data modeling, container design, queries, and local testing using the Cosmos DB Linux emulator and GitHub Copilot in VS Code.

GitHub explains how GitHub Copilot approvals can help teams avoid routine pull request review bottlenecks by letting Copilot provide delegated review approvals that count toward merge protection rules, while still combining that automated assessment with a human approval to satisfy branch requirements.

Marko Hotti and Madeline Egan explain how to move an AI agent from a demo to a production-ready system using Azure Cosmos DB, focusing on observability and evaluation practices like tracing, regression testing, and before/after metrics to improve retrieval quality, latency, token usage, memory efficiency, and RU consumption.

GitHub shares a September platform update roundup covering Project HydraFusion’s expansion to VS Code and the GitHub Copilot app, plus new workflow features like local sandboxing GA, automated PR approvals that can satisfy merge gates, and bulk autofix for CodeQL findings.

Visual Studio Code highlights improvements to the built-in Markdown editor, focusing on a smoother writing and editing workflow inside VS Code.

Sukhwant Kaur demonstrates how SQL database in Microsoft Fabric can support app development, analytics, and AI in one place—covering database creation, workload migration, and automatic mirroring into OneLake, plus Git-based workflows with VS Code and a T-SQL RAG example for product search.

Visual Studio Code introduces Canvases (Preview), a shared workspace concept in VS Code designed to help teams plan releases, prioritize backlog work, and collaborate with a coding agent using contextual cards that can be turned into actionable plans.

Microsoft Developer presents SQL Modernization Day, a set of sessions from the Microsoft SQL team focused on moving SQL Server workloads to Azure without rewriting applications, and then preparing those workloads for building AI-ready apps using modern Azure and Fabric SQL options.

Julia Muiruri demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for building and shipping an AI agent directly from Visual Studio Code, using GitHub Copilot and the Foundry Toolkit extension to pick a model, test the agent against a real product catalog, deploy to Microsoft Foundry, and connect it to a website via a secure proxy.

GitHub demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for taking an open GitHub issue to a pull request using GitHub Copilot inside JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, including installing the plugin, planning the work, implementing a fix, reviewing changes, and validating accessibility.

Visual Studio Code shares quick, practical tips for working faster in the VS Code integrated terminal, including toggling the terminal, opening new terminals, splitting terminals side by side, and clearing noisy output.

Sameen Karim explains how GitHub uses a swarm of AI agents to stress test new features before release, with agents continuously probing for edge cases and attempts to circumvent rules to help harden the system.

Visual Studio Code highlights what’s new in VS Code v1.142, including interactive canvases for agent workflows, chat handoffs that keep context, and new Markdown editing capabilities, with a link to the full weekly update notes.

Fokko at Work demos selected GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code updates around the 1.142/1.143 timeframe, including comparing model outputs, improvements in the Agents window, and new UI elements like the Session Activity Bar. The video also covers running Copilot models locally on NVIDIA RTX hardware and notes how enterprise policies and pricing plans can affect feature availability.

Manfred Riem and Nicole Haugen join Open Source Friday to walk through the Spec Kit 1.0.0 release, focusing on what changed in the project and what it takes to ship a stable open source developer tool.

GitHub explains why making stacked pull requests a native feature is more than just linking PRs and merging them in order, and how it required changes to core merge architecture and legacy systems.

Visual Studio Code shows how to keep momentum while working with agents by highlighting text to ask follow-up questions in a side chat with its own context, or quoting selected text directly into your current chat for an immediate response.

Microsoft Developer demonstrates an end-to-end workflow for building and shipping a hosted AI agent from the terminal using GitHub Copilot CLI and Microsoft Foundry, including planning, resource creation, model selection, evaluation-driven improvements, and a secure Azure Functions proxy to connect the agent to a website chat experience.

Sameen Karim joins The GitHub Podcast to explain how GitHub’s native stacked pull requests work, including the internal merge architecture changes, how linked PR chains avoid “ghost merges,” and how the team addressed CODEOWNERS-related security loopholes while keeping stacked review workflows practical for engineering teams.

Visual Studio Code shows how the Agents window can create and manage a pull request end-to-end, including drafting the PR title and description, tracking CI checks, monitoring reviews, resolving conflicts, keeping the branch in sync, and merging automatically with configurable control.

GitHub shares a short documentary-style look at what a 48-hour hackathon is actually like, from idea formation and rapid prototyping to learning through trial and error. It also touches on how tools like GitHub Copilot can help participants turn rough concepts into working applications under tight time constraints.

Fokko at Work demos what’s new in Visual Studio Code 1.141, focusing on workflow and UI updates plus several GitHub Copilot improvements, including continuing external Copilot sessions, sandboxing in the Copilot agent host, persistent chat progress, and visibility into discovered MCP servers.

Mahmoud A. Atallah shows how he uses GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code to turn meeting transcripts and other customer inputs into structured requirements and execution-ready delivery artifacts, then enriches them with Azure guidance via MCP servers and the Well-Architected Framework.

Ayush Shekhar introduces ScreenMind, an open source project that runs a single local AI model to understand what’s on your screen, transcribe audio (like meetings), and answer questions about what it has seen—aimed at running on a GPU with as little as 4GB of VRAM.

GitHub explains how PR limits can reduce low-quality pull requests and automated spam (“AI slop”) by letting maintainers cap the number of open PRs from external contributors, with upcoming options like counting draft PRs and allowing trusted users to bypass limits.

Visual Studio Code shows how to use the Thunder Client extension to send API requests and view responses directly inside VS Code, keeping API testing alongside your code while you build and debug your app.

GitHub introduces gh-secure, a one-command tool from the GitHub Security Lab aimed at improving basic repository security hygiene by helping prevent secrets from being leaked into public code, with usage via the Copilot app, Copilot CLI, or GitHub CLI.

dotnet shares the GitHub Universe Day 2 keynote, focused on the people who build in the open, with open source voices, demos, and a lead-in to the Universe Insider session for deeper dives on the day’s announcements.

dotnet shares the GitHub Universe Day 1 opening keynote, focused on GitHub’s view of the next era of software and the developer workflows and tools GitHub is building, including announcements and live demos across the GitHub platform and GitHub Copilot.

Fokko at Work walks through the key updates in Visual Studio Code 1.140 with a focus on GitHub Copilot changes, including HydraFusion and new session capabilities. The video uses short demos to show how the features work and notes that availability can depend on enterprise policies and licensing.

Cassidy and GPS talk with Camilla Moraes from GitHub’s Maintainer Love team about the “AI slop” problem hitting open source repos, and how GitHub is building small, high-impact features like PR limits to reduce spam while using Copilot CLI to help organize maintainer feedback.