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How Azure Cosmos DB Powers ARM’s Federated Future: Scaling for the Next Billion Requests
The Cloud at Hyperscale: ARM’s Mission and Growth
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the backbone of Azure’s resource provisioning and management, orchestrating billions of daily requests from customers around the globe. ARM manages all resources for Azure: VMs, Storage, Databases,...
Read moreClick to read more about this postHow We Synchronize .NET's Virtual Monorepo
A deep dive into the technical challenges of keeping .NET's product repositories synchronized with our Virtual Monolithic Repository using a custom two-way algorithm.
Read moreClick to read more about this postAspire for JavaScript developers
Aspire 13 brings comprehensive JavaScript and TypeScript support to cloud-native development, enabling you to orchestrate Node.js applications, Vite frontends, and JavaScript services alongside your .NET projects with unified tooling and seamless integration.
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Jan 15, 2026
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Announcing GPT-5.2 Availability in Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret Clouds
Today, we are excited to announce that GPT-5.2, Azure OpenAI’s newest frontier reasoning model, is available in Microsoft Azure for U.S. Government Secret and Top Secret cloud environments. This release marks another significant milestone in our mission to bring cutting edge AI...
Azure Government
Jan 15, 2026
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When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings
The strings are an implementation detail.
The Old New Thing
Jan 15, 2026
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Announcing Microsoft Entra PowerShell v1.2.0
We are excited to introduce Microsoft Entra PowerShell v1.2.0, a major update that delivers full support for Agent Identity Blueprints, expanded application configuration capabilities, and modernized invitation APIs aligned with Microsoft Graph models. This release consolidates...
Microsoft Entra PowerShell
Jan 15, 2026
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Copilot Memories
Are you wasting time reviewing code for nits on code standards, project preferences, or important contribution guidelines? We know the pain. It’s all too easy for best practices and those tiny but critical team details to slip through the cracks, resulting in inconsistencies,...
Visual Studio Blog
Jan 15, 2026
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Azure Cosmos DB Conf 2026 — Call for Proposals Is Now Open
Every production system has a story behind it.
The scaling limit you didn’t expect.
The data model that finally clicked.
The tradeoff you had to make under real-world pressure.
The solution that worked—and the lessons you’d pass on to the next team.
Azure Cosmos DB Conf...
Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Jan 15, 2026
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Building docfind: Fast Client-Side Search with Rust and WebAssembly
How we built docfind, a high-performance client-side search engine using Rust and WebAssembly, and how GitHub Copilot accelerated development.
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VS Code Blog
Jan 14, 2026
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Announcing Agent Academy: Operative
Earlier this year, we launched Agent Academy: Recruit, a foundational learning path designed to help makers and developers get started with building agents in Copilot Studio. The response exceeded our expectations.
Since launch, thousands of learners have worked through the Recruit...
Power Platform Developer Blog
Jan 14, 2026
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Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code Is Now Generally Available
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If you build agents with the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code, you already know the fastest way to iterate is to treat your agent like software: version it, review changes, and promote it through environments with confidence. Today, the Microsoft Copilot Studio extension...
Microsoft 365 Developer Blog
Jan 14, 2026
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Adding Aspire to a Python RAG Application
This blog post documents the transformation of the azure-search-openai-demo (a Python/TypeScript RAG application) through the addition of Aspire for local development and observability. It demonstrates how Aspire can enhance polyglot applications without requiring rewrites.
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