Get PostgreSQL running in Docker with this step-by-step setup guide. Learn to pull the image, run a container, set up volumes, and connect with psql.

Microsoft extends Dev Container agent sessions to remote projects while quietly removing last week's AI-generated release-notes warning.

Organizations modernize infrastructure in different ways. Some prioritize a simple, integrated platform; others need to preserve SAN investments, scale...

Claude at Work: my new Manning book is out now. Learn how to use the full Claude platform to effectively design, build and run software with agents.

Learn about the latest announcements from the AKS team around workload and AI isolation, AI agents, and efficiency. 

When a critical production incident starts, the first message we often receive is something like: “The database is down.”  At that moment, everything...

PSMcpClient, a PowerShell module that spawns a published stdio MCP server, speaks JSON-RPC to it and gives you its tools as ordinary PowerShell commands.

Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol are joining model choice in Microsoft Copilot.  

Microsoft details JADEPUFFER-linked Azure reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access using compromised service principals, identifying the activity as associated with Storm-3168 and providing guidance for defenders.

Swagger UI used to ship by default with ASP.NET Core API projects, but recent .NET versions replaced it with a bare OpenAPI document. This post compares Swagger and Scalar as documentation UIs, walks through setting up each one in .NET 10, and covers when to pick one over the other.

Learn how Microsoft Foundry is connecting agents with enterprise knowledge, supporting long-running execution, and applying governance.

Explore how a scientist used Microsoft Discovery and AI agents to analyze wastewater metagenomics and investigate viral patterns with expert oversight.

Microsoft’s Autopilots mark a shift from AI that responds to prompts to persistent agents with identity, initiative and standing responsibilities. As AI...

  Introduction One of the most common questions during Azure networking troubleshooting is: “Did anything change before the issue started?” Whether we...

How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments.

How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.

This post explains the new UNISTR function in SQL Server 2025, a small but handy way to embed Unicode codepoints directly into string literals using escape sequences. Before SQL Server 2025, the on…

Scenario Across the industry, manufacturing organizations spend significant engineering effort converting tribal knowledge and assembly demonstrations into...

Microsoft Entra Kerberos for Azure NetApp Files Is in Public Preview

AI is transforming the attacker’s operating model, accelerating threats to unprecedented speed and scale. Yet many security operations centers still...

For many web apps and APIs, a container image should be enough to get started. Developers should not have to choose and configure an environment before the...

Discover how Microsoft Sovereign Private Cloud serves as a platform for Kubernetes, data services, and local AI beyond just virtualization.

Compare Microsoft Foundry prompt agents and Hosted Agents, including execution control, tools, workflow state, costs, and when to choose each

A common question that we get from our customers is "Hey guys, we are excited about SRE agent and we 've created one but whats the best way to configure...

Hands-on with AI, Copilot Studio, and the Power Platform, by Mariano Gomez, Former Microsoft MVP (2008-2024).

Agentic applications increasingly need to process entire code repositories, large document collections, images, tool results, and long-running conversation...

Azure API Management now provides a generally available policy for sending messages to Azure Service Bus. Using the send-service-bus-message policy, an...

Deploy Entra joined AVD session hosts on Azure Local with PowerShell, configure FSLogix profiles and automate session host configuration with guest scripts.

Explore new FinOps for AI capabilities that help organizations control spend, measure value, and optimize AI investments for greater business impact.

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Table of Contents 1. Where CoreDNS fits in AKS 2. How a pod gets a DNS answer Cluster Service names Names handled by another DNS server LocalDNS can...

The VS Code team combined Copilot's completion and next-edit systems to make inline suggestions more continuous and responsive.

Azure gives you two main ways to pay less by committing up front. A reservation gets you the deepest discount, but you are locking in a specific SKU in a...

With Elasticsearch Vector Database, Elastic's new serverless offering for vector workloads, Azure customers can build semantic search, retrieval-augmented...

The shortest path to local inference is not to begin with a web server, an agent framework, or a full RAG pipeline. Begin with a spike that proves five...

What's the one big difference between MySQL and MariaDB? Learn what the difference is, why it's important, and what's best for your situation.

A UCL IXN MSc project exploring why schema-valid local SLM robot task proposals still need deterministic governance before they can progress, using Microsoft...

Storm-2570 is a ransomware affiliate that uses consistent post-compromise tools and techniques across deployments involving Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis, and BERT ransomware, and provides guidance to help defenders detect and disrupt this activity before ransomware deployment.

Learn how you can design your platform for software that acts using Microsoft Foundry and Azure Container Apps Sandboxes.

  Building an AI agent is getting easier. Building an agent system that knows which agent should act, what context to share, when the work is...

Enterprise AI has entered a new phase. For much of the past decade, the challenge was building enough compute for machine learning. Today, organizations need...

TL;DR: Azure Service Bus does not support autoforwarding from a session-enabled subscription. A direct workaround is to process each subscription as an application input, but that spreads session locks, retries, monitoring, and shutdown across several receive points. A narrowly scoped transport-owned bridge can instead move each ordered subscription stream into one session-enabled endpoint queue. The...

Explore GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and GPT-6 Luna in Microsoft Foundry, with scalable model options for production AI agents, complex workflows, and high-volume tasks.

Microsoft's public VS Code issue tracker on GitHub offers an unusually detailed look at features and changes the development team is considering -- including some that could eventually turn up in Insiders, like the brand-new ability to send the same coding task to multiple agents working in isolated Git worktrees and then have a judge agent recommend the best implementation.

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Reading Time: 18 minutesShare:Microsoft has added flex nodes to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and it’s one of the more interesting preview features I’ve seen land in a while. I picked it up through the AKS docs, had to Read more

Voice is quickly becoming a major way people interact with AI agents. Recent research found that 14% of users already prefer speaking with generative AI...