In June we deployed an RTX 6000 Pro into production, a few weeks later, we're now operating DGX Sparks for the team. Learn how and why.

The final post in the Optimising DAX series: the CALCULATE trap, variables and IF.EAGER, slicer costs, and a practical approach to isolating slow queries.

Microsoft's new WSL Containers (wslc) promises container management on Windows without Docker Desktop. I tried it with dev containers, Aspire, and Docker Compose - here's what works, what doesn't, and whether you should switch yet.

Rx.NET 7.0 is now available, with the potential to reduce deployable application size by up to 90MB.

A one-pot dish that's easy to prepare and serve a crowd. Pollack is a cheaper variety of white fish and is perfect for poaching in the flavourful stew.

Microsoft's new WSL Containers (wslc) promises container management on Windows without Docker Desktop. I tried it with dev containers, Aspire, and Docker Compose - here's what works, what doesn't, and...

Rx.NET 7.0 can cut self-contained Windows app deployments by ~95MB by moving WPF/WinForms support out of System.Reactive into optional packages.

Rx.NET 7.0 is now available, with the potential to reduce deployable application size by up to 90MB.

On 2026/06/18 we published System.Reactive v7.0.0-rc1 to NuGet. It can reduce the size of self-contained applications that use Rx by up to 90MB! We've been running various tests on it, and we belie...

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VertiPaq stores Power BI data column-by-column rather than row-by-row. That makes aggregations fast and cross-column queries the trickiest part of DAX.

AI is like introducing a powerful new instrument to an orchestra. It creates possibilities that didn't exist before. But it still requires musicians who can read music, a conductor with a vision, rehearsal...

Use the Hyperlight connector to add CodeAct and sandboxed Python execution to Agent Framework.

Top-down AI strategy and bottom-up experimentation both fail alone: leading organisations combine them to drive real business results.

Top-down AI strategy and bottom-up experimentation both fail alone: leading organisations combine them to drive real business results.

Benchmarking Pandas, PySpark, Polars, and DuckDB on Microsoft Fabric: in-process Python engines run 4-5x cheaper and faster than Spark for common workloads.

Benchmarking Pandas, PySpark, Polars, and DuckDB on Microsoft Fabric: in-process Python engines run 4-5x cheaper and faster than Spark for common workloads.

If you use Azure Functions on a regular basis, you'll likely have grappled with the challenge of testing them. In the first of a series of posts, we look at some different approaches to testing your functions...

After years away, I returned to work in the UK. Here's how remote flexibility protected my mental health and made that transition possible!

A simple mental model for making sense of the AI-assisted coding landscape: four layers, four decisions.

Azure Kubernetes Service support for Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (preview) will be retired on 8 June 2026, transition to a supported alternative by that date. Flatcar Container Linux for AKS (p...

Shift from prompt engineering to AI programming by applying rigorous software engineering principles to your LLM integrations.

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The queue-of-work pattern enables massive parallelism for API ingestion by breaking large jobs into thousands of independent work items processed by concurrent workers. This approach reduced data inge...