Exploring azd extensions: Enhance your Azure developer experience The Azure Developer CLI (azd) has a new feature called extensions that empowers developers to customize their workflow with azd. If you're a developer building on Azure, maybe you already have a "wish list" of CLI capabilities. If so, you might be able to create an ext
How often have you wished you could just talk to your data? Imagine extracting crucial insights, updating records, or building complex reports without wrestling with intricate query languages or relying on a dedicated developer. For many professionals, the true power of their enterprise data remains locked behind technical barriers, h
TL;DR Key dev updates: Agent Service hits GA with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support—integrate any backend with standardized JSON-RPC calls, no more custom OpenAPI specs. New models include o3-pro for enterprise reasoning, Sora for video generation, and DeepSeek-R1 for open-source reasoning. Platform ch
Welcome to the latest roundup of key updates across the Azure Cosmos DB Java ecosystem! The largest external customers of Azure Cosmos DB API for NoSQL, running some of th
Visualizing all the books of the world in ISBN space. What it says on the tin. Back in 2013, there was a series of promotional videos for the golf European Tour titled "Every Shot Imaginable", in which golfers attempted silly tasks. P
A team was proposing a method that was at its essence a Read(n) that takes the maximum number of items to read. The reality was more complicated than that: The parameter n was really a configuration property on an operation, but it had the same meaning: It set the maximum number of items to return. The team s
We are open sourcing the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. It’s the first milestone in making VS Code an open source AI editor. Read the full article
Generative-AI agents only become useful when they can do things—query systems of record, trigger workflows, or look up specialized knowledge. Until now that meant hand-rolling Azure Functions, managing OpenAPI specs, or writing custom pl
