At this year’s GitHub Universe, we set out to answer a simple question: What would it take to go from an idea to production in under 30 minutes – using only natural language, your editor, and AI? On stage, we built a cloud-native, intelligent app from scratch using

We’re excited to announce a new chapter for Aspire and a new home at aspire.dev. What started two years ago as an experiment to simplify distributed app development has become a thriving, community-driven, extensible, code-first pl

Why Financial Services Organizations Should Consider Expanding to Other Azure Regions for New Workloads As a Cloud Architect, I work closely with financial services organizations to help them unlock the full potential of Azure innovations. One of the most impactful strategies I r

Another year and another CppCon is all wrapped up! Microsoft was pleased to once again be an exhibitor and to have several of our employees present sessions at the conference. Here are my major takeaways from the keynotes, sessions, conversations, and the general vibe. AI tooling is finding a footing with the C++ community. The ne

We're thrilled to invite you to one of the most exciting events in the .NET ecosystem: .NET Conf. It runs from November 11th through the 13th and you’re invited! This annual virtual conference is a must-attend for developers, architects, and enthusiasts looking t

The English idiom turn into a pumpkin comes from the fairy tale story of Cinderella, in which the protagonist's ragged clothes are magically transformed into an elegant gown and a pumpkin is transformed into a carriage, allowing her to attend a royal ball. She is warned that the magic wears off at midnight, upon which her clot

The only thing that’s constant in distributed systems is failures. No cloud platform is immune to failures — from regional outages and transient network blips to human errors or hardware faults. What defines resiliency & reliability isn’t the absence of failure, but how systems anticipate, isolate, and recover from them. Here is a

This new azd extension makes it easy to use the GitHub Copilot coding agent with Azure Want Copilot to help you build apps in the cloud? This tool does all the boring setup work for you. Instead of spending hours figuring out permissions and security, you can get Copilot coding agent connected to your cloud resources i