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How presets, extensions, bundles, workflows, and governed catalogs make Spec-Driven Development adaptable at scale This article continues Spec-Driven Development: A Spec-First App…
You told us that applications using Microsoft.Data.SqlClient can take too long to establish the database connections they need. When many requests need connections at the same tim…
Developers, database administrators, data professionals, architects and technology decision makers have several opportunities to connect, learn and gain hands-on experience this f…
Learn how the Canvas authoring plugin helps you build Azure canvases with Microsoft Canvas Toolkit, from a read-only starter to a working app you can inspect, test, and adapt. The…
C# Dev Kit has been rebuilt to open solutions in about a second and run on a fraction of the memory, and this post walks through what changed for you. The post A faster, lighter C…
Aspire 13.6 brings Native AOT to the dashboard. Explore the startup and deployment benefits, plus the Blazor, Fluent UI, JSON, and Dapper changes that made it possible. The post B…
Welcome to SQL First, welcome to SQL! You’re going to like this. Moving from PostgreSQL is real work, and depending on your old database, this process will vary widely in complexi…
Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and h…
Add bounded AI reasoning to Python function apps with Azure Functions Agent bindings, while keeping deterministic application code in control. The post Bring agentic reasoning to…
Maybe you’d deploy that .NET application you’ve been working on. Try a serverless architecture. Experiment with containers. Build a proof of concept. Or spend some time exploring…
Your agent says it's done, and the code compiles, but did it pick your technology? Did it use it correctly? Learn what Agent Experience (AX) is, how to measure it, and why the obv…
Learn how Azure Functions managed connectors provide access to 1,700 services, with triggers and typed clients available for supported service connectors, and walk through a sampl…
The first few minutes of a new AI project often feel productive. Create a chat endpoint, connect a model, send a prompt, and display the answer. Then the real questions arrive. Wh…
You own the account, wrote the application, and would be the one fixing it if something broke. So role-based access control (RBAC) can sound like an answer to a problem you do not…
This tutorial shows how common Elasticsearch search requests can be expressed using Azure Cosmos DB query patterns. Some Elasticsearch capabilities map directly to Cosmos DB full-…
Data API builder (DAB) 2.1.5 is now available as a stable release, and it is about meeting modern data where it lives: documents next to rows, embeddings next to both. This releas…
Aspire 13.5 introduced WithTerminal() for interactive terminal sessions on app resources. Aspire 13.6 builds on it with richer terminal emulation and docked terminals for REPLs. S…
Your weekend plans are officially set with Ubisoft’s Free Play Days takeover! FARCRY 6, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Skull and Bones, and The Crew Motor…
