1. The story starts with someone who doesn't write code Let me start with a scene I keep running into at community events. Late last year, after a meetup, I got an…
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This release is about making everyday database workloads more predictable. It fixes a collection of issues that could appear under connection failures, retries, transactions, pooling, streaming, encryption, and newer SQL Server data…
Welcome to a new series for a new era of MSPs! I'm Bryan Irwin and in this new blog series, I'll share practical guidance to help managed service providers grow with Microsoft.…
In the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI, large language model (LLM) evaluations have matured into standardized benchmark suites, Elo leaderboards, and automated judge pipelines. However, in the realm of Text-to-Image (T2I)…
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 specific region.…
Agent-to-agent collaboration just became much easier to build in Microsoft Foundry. The A2A Tool and incoming A2A endpoints support A2A protocol version 1.0, which is generally available. The earlier a2a_preview tool type…
We’ve been working on something big, and now we’d like to share it with you and get your feedback before we release to general availability. The time has come—we’ve combined Windows Admin…
Author's Note: Vendor names referenced in this article are used solely as illustrative architectural examples and should not be interpreted as endorsements, recommendations, or advertisements. Introduction In Part 1, we looked at how…
TL;DR: Bare regex matchers like pod=~"foo" will soon return only exact matches, not substring matches. If you rely on =~ for "starts with" or "contains" semantics, update your queries to add .*…
