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Kevin Pilch

@pilchie.dev
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Marathon runner, hockey player, beer drinker, chocolate chip cookie lover. Father. Group Manager for CosmosDB DevExp at Microsoft. Born 🇨🇦, Seattle since 2002. he/him

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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 29/09/2026
Our 1.0-beta.1 release of the Rust SDK for Azure Cosmos DB is out. We're considering this a release candidate for a 1.0 release coming soon - give it a spin and let us know if you run into any issues. #CosmosDB crates.io/crates/azure...
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 06/09/2026
I signed up to run the Terry Fox run for the first time in 30 years. I’ll match donations up to $1,000 at run.terryfox.ca/page/pilchie
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In 1980 Terry showed us what courage, compassion and determination look like. Today that example is needed more than ever and I am inspired to join more than 100,000 Terry Foxers this fall who are...
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 03/06/2026
Just amazed at the lineup of announcements from my team at Microsoft #Build today! Too many to list, check out all the blog posts: devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/ #CosmosDB
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Cosmos DB
The latest news, updates and technical insights from the Azure Cosmos DB team
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 16/05/2026
Congrats @heaths.dev and everyone on the team.
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Heath Stewart @heaths.dev · 14/05/2026
#AzureSDK for #rustlang 🦀 has GA'd: we shipped our initial stable 1.0.0 version! 🎉 In this wave we have support for Storage Blobs and Queues, and Key Vault. Cosmos and Event Hubs are coming soon.
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From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust 🎉🦀
Announcing the stable release of the Azure SDK for Rust. This release includes stable libraries for Core, Identity, Key Vault (Secrets, Keys, Certificates), and Storage (Blobs, Queues).
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 07/05/2026
Been waiting a long time for this preview to be ready. Very happy to share it with everyone #cosmosdb #azure devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/azu...
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Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation - Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Discover Azure Cosmos DB Shell – an open-source CLI with MCP server support for AI agent integration, bash-like commands, and automated database workflows. Now in public preview.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
1. Your coworkers shouldn’t be the first humans to have read what you produce. Vetting the content is on you. 2. If you’re using AI, you have no excuse for the content being lengthy and verbose. Conciseness is a prompt away. (2/2)
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 21/03/2026
That was supposed to be touching, not ticking.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 21/03/2026
Saw Project Hail Mary last night and really enjoyed it. I think they did a good job adapting it. Both ticking and funny.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 18/03/2026
I read this to the tune of Escape (The Piña Colada Song).
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 16/03/2026
Hey @jp2e.bsky.social any changes to this post www.theverge.com/23393163/bes... in the last couple of months? Would love a thread-based lock that supports reliable auto-unlock. We're an apple + Home Assistant household. Currently have a Yale on the front door, but want something for the side.
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Here are the best smart locks you can buy right now
Ditch the keys for a smart door lock.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 14/03/2026
Hey @reckless.bsky.social get ready for another rant.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 09/02/2026
How did the Olympic organizers put a Team Canada and a Team USA hockey game in the same timeslot. Really needing to multitask today.
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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 09/02/2026
Fuck MAGA, more Gaga
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 07/02/2026
@davidpierce.xyz listening to yesterday’s Vergecast with you mentioning a quest to find a new phone raised a question for me. Is there a workable way to dual phone if I’m not ready to give up my iPhone, but want to dabble in something else?
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 29/01/2026
I’ve joined four meetings from a focus room at the office today. I’ve since found out that in two of them there were other participants sitting in adjacent focus rooms. :(
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 23/12/2025
A little early Christmas present from work. I was due for a machine refresh and a new 15” Surface with a 12core Snapdragon X1E80100 ARM64 CPU, 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD was delivered today. All set up now, and I’m excited to see how the battery holds up through a day in the office when I go back in Jan.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 21/12/2025
Watched Spirited again. It remains a modern Christmas Classic.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 13/12/2025
@johntmhiggins.bsky.social what was the arm mount HR monitor you recommended on the Vergecast?
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 18/11/2025
Better late than never. Made a batch of @altonbrown.bsky.social ‘s aged egg nog for the holidays
A glass pitcher of freshly homemade eggnog on a granite counter
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 09/11/2025
@scalzi.com I saw recently that you wrote a summary of the Old Man’s War series. About to start The Shattering Peace, and now I can’t find it. Can you share a link, and maybe put it on whatever?
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 20/09/2025
Cool blog about how the RecordScanner app uses Azure #CosmosDB's vector search capabilities: devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/rec...
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Record Scanner for vinyl collectors cuts costs with Azure Cosmos DB vector search - Azure Cosmos DB Blog
by Artur Drozdz, Founder of Record Scanner (recordscanner.com) If you’re like me, there’s at least one room in your home with an entire cabinet dedicated to your growing vinyl collection. At this poin...
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Heath Stewart @heaths.dev · 04/09/2025
#rustlang docs are live on Microsoft Learn: aka.ms/rust/docs These expand on #AzureSDK examples with more user scenarios and more to come. While we always want our crate READMEs to be helpful, we also want them to be concise. Of course, there's more information and many doc examples on docs.rs
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Azure for Rust developers - Rust on Azure
Get started developing with Rust on Azure using services like Azure Functions, Key Vault, Messaging, Identity, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, and the Azure SDK for Rust.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 29/08/2025
I’ve been getting back into lifting a bit lately. I always take my Oura off when I do, but then I don’t get “credit” for it. Any other suggestions? @vicmsong.bsky.social ?
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 29/08/2025
People who are good at photography stuff - I have very few pictures of my mom. One of the best is an iPhone shot from 2017, but it’s backlit. Any tips to help make it better to print?
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Azure Cosmos DB @azurecosmosdb.com · 21/08/2025
🧠 Vector Search in 2 Minutes This video explains how AI agents use embeddings + similarity to find relevant info—fast. See how Azure Cosmos DB enables smarter search for AI & analytics. ▶️ msft.it/63320sng7G #VectorSearch #AI #AzureCosmosDB #DevTools #SemanticSearch
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Vector Search Explained in 2 Minutes
Ever wonder how AI agents find the information that's most relevant to your conversation? This video breaks down the fundamentals of vector search, the tech that powers modern search for AI. You’ll learn: ⚡ How data like text, images, or audio can be transformed into vectors using embedding models ⚡ How queries are compared in the same vector space ⚡ The role of similarity measures like cosine similarity and Euclidean distance ⚡ How Azure Cosmos DB uses vector search to enable smarter, more intuitive retrieval for AI and analytics Whether you’re building apps that need semantic understanding or exploring hybrid search for richer results, this video gives you a clear foundation for how vector search powers it all. #AzureCosmosDB #VectorSearch #AI
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 20/08/2025
OMG - almost 2 years after I bought them, I *finally* managed to get my Nanoleaf bulbs to connect to my Home Assistant Sky Connect with Open Thread Border Router. Getting thread credentials synced between iOS and HA has been a PITA.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 09/08/2025
OH while playing UNO at family game night: “What is the card with the backwards ‘E’?” “Uh, a three?”
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 08/08/2025
Smash burgers can still be shitty burgers and we need to stop pretending they’re some type of elevated bullshit.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 07/08/2025
After hearing @vicmsong.bsky.social interview the Ladder app CEO on the @theverge.com Vergecast, I’ve been trying it for a week now. Great workouts - kicking things up a notch for me, though not running as much now. #TeamAlpha
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Azure Cosmos DB @azurecosmosdb.com · 29/07/2025
🚀 Azure Cosmos DB Fleets is here (preview) New Azure Cosmos DB TV episode! Learn how Fleets simplifies SaaS & multi-tenant scale with pools + fleet analytics. 📺 Mark Brown, Deborah Chen & Praful Johari break it down: msft.it/63322sybFM #AzureCosmosDB #AzureCosmosDBTV
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Azure Cosmos DB Fleets - Now in Preview - Ep. 108
Building and managing multi-tenant or SaaS applications with Azure Cosmos DB just got easier. In this session, host Mark Brown is joined by Microsoft’s Deborah Chen and Praful Johari to explore Azure Cosmos DB Fleets, now in preview. Learn how fleets tackle common challenges like tenant isolation, managing thousands of RU/s, and reducing the cost of provisioning dedicated capacity for inactive tenants. Discover how pools and fleet analytics simplify capacity management and improve observability at scale. Whether you’re a SaaS provider or building a multi-tenant application, this session will show you how fleets can reduce operational complexity while maintaining performance and security. #AzureCosmosDB #SaaS Useful Links: • Azure Cosmos DB fleets overview (preview) - https://msft.it/63320sybF6 • Call for Speakers for Azure Cosmos DB TV - https://msft.it/63322sybF8 • Azure Cosmos DB TV - https://msft.it/63324sybFE • Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube - https://msft.it/63326sybFG • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X - https://msft.it/63328sybFy • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn - https://msft.it/63320sybFK
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 26/07/2025
Costco shopping list: toilet paper. Costco receipt: $306.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 26/07/2025
Make that six days!
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 25/07/2025
New #NYTGames crossword streak. All five weekdays this week with no cheats.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 04/07/2025
Arrived in NYC as part of our Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal/Boston/NYC/DC road trip and the location based ads here in Manhattan are out of control! So many ads for things to do here it’s all I see.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 13/06/2025
Someone just liked a comment I left on a group photo on Facebook *FOURTEEN YEARS AGO*. 14! Who does that?
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 13/05/2025
New paper about #Azure #CosmosDB Vector search for #vldb posted: aka.ms/CosmosDB/Vec....
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[2505.05885] Cost-Effective, Low Latency Vector Search with Azure Cosmos DBcontact arXivsubscribe to arXiv mailings
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 08/05/2025
It begins - easy links to buy things outside of apps. @reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz
App notification from Kindle app that says: New in the app: Buy books with “Get book”
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 24/04/2025
Docusign using #Azure #CosmosDB for semantic search (vector and full-text): www.linkedin.com/posts/kirill...
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#azurecosmosdb | Kirill Gavrylyuk
I had a pleasure hosting Kunal Mukerjee from Docusign at our #AzureCosmosDB Conference last Tuesday. Docusign Intelligent Agreements is a canonical example of what AI can do to solve world's trill...
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 21/04/2025
New blog post about scaling vector search to a billion vectors with #Azure #CosmosDB - devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/azu...
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Azure Cosmos DB with DiskANN Part 2: Scaling to 1 Billion Vectors with
Explore the potential of a vector database. Learn to scale vector datasets in Azure Cosmos DB for efficient performance.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 17/04/2025
Public preview of #Azure #MCP Server released! devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/in...
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Introducing the Azure MCP Server
Announcing the Public Preview of the Azure MCP Server, bringing the power of Azure to your AI agents. The Azure MCP Server allows AI agents to take advantage of Azure resources for key workflows such ...
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 13/04/2025
I voted!
Elections Canada envelope.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 04/04/2025
Interesting. Instagram now goes into a loop prompting me to allow targeting from ad partners. If I opt out and confirm, it just pops the modal prompt back up. No more insta for me I guess.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 04/04/2025
I updated to iOS 18.4 last night and now my phone vibrates at random times with no other sign of feedback. Help?
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 04/04/2025
Can’t believe @rjcc.bsky.social, @davidpierce.xyz and @reckless.bsky.social didn’t put together that the $10,000 TV bundle from Samsung is there to populate the bar when you buy it. @theverge.com
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 18/03/2025
Tonight's dinner includes** 2 pints* of Guinness. * Not including any that I consumed directly. ** Ok, they were short (aka US) pints. #StPatricksDay
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 12/03/2025
Cooking a French recipe and I’m reminded why French food is so good. (It’s the butter and heavy cream)
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 11/03/2025
devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/imp... #Azure #CosmosDB
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Implementing Chat History for AI Applications Using Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK - Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Learn how to build a chat history implementation using Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Go SDK and langchaingo, with a sample chatbot app, integration tests, and best practices.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 03/03/2025
Feeling pretty good today. Been a while since I got a good sleep and managed a run, shower, and breakfast before my first meeting of the day.
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Kevin Pilch @pilchie.dev · 26/02/2025
And the crate for the Azure Cosmos DB SDK is live now! devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/ann... #cosmosdb #rust #azure
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Announcing the Public Preview of the Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Rust! - Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Discover the public preview of the Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Rust, a native SDK that empowers developers to build high-performance, scalable NoSQL applications with modern cloud development best practic...
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