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To deliver new features faster and continue improving stability and performance, the GitHub Copilot plugin will end support for JetBrains IDEs version 2025.1.x (JetBrains platform build 251). Focusing on newer IDE versions helps us bring you new capabilities more quickly and maint Link to article: …
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Have you ever changed your backing data model and then all of a sudden all your clients explode? It’s not because you broke your code. You broke your contract. Most times API breaking changes occur because you’re exposing your domain model or data model. You’re not just sharing data. You’re leaking implementation …
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Setting up your Microsoft Foundry environment just got a lot simpler. We launched Foundry Dev Pack to consolidate initial installation steps into a single setup process. The Foundry Dev Pack is an all-in-one installer that prepares your machine for Foundry development by installing the tools that you’ll need across …
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Multi-tenant SaaS providers often need to control which application version each tenant runs, a practice called per-tenant version pinning, so they can roll out new releases incrementally and move tenants between versions without downtime and manual changes. A common approach is to configure the Application Load …
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Prompt caching in Amazon Bedrock can cut input token costs by up to 90% when you repeatedly send the same context to foundation models. This post walks through six practical prompt caching scenarios using the Converse API: message content, system prompt, tool definition, mixed TTL, tenant isolation, and LangChain …
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Manually tagging thousands of catalog products is slow and inconsistent. This walkthrough shows how to customize Qwen3-8B with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) on Amazon SageMaker serverless model customization, then deploy it for asynchronous inference to build a …
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Amazon SageMaker AI now offers instance preference lists for training and processing jobs. Specify an ordered list of up to five instance types, and SageMaker AI automatically launches on the first type with available capacity, eliminating manual retry loops and capacity-watching scripts. Link to article: …
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Every MSIX package is one of four package types: Main Framework Resource Optional MSIX also supports Bundle packages. Bundles are somewhat different from those four package types: a Bundle is a container for one or more MSIX packages. Windows APIs nevertheless expose Bundle alongside t Link to article: …
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Today I want to look at how we can improve on the test coverage that we have in the Interview Coach application. This application has some unit tests in it already, but I'm sure there is room for improvement. Defining our baseline Before we star Link to article: …
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An interview coach has to do more than ask questions. It needs to read a resume, follow up on an incomplete answer, and save enough context to give useful feedback at the end. Some of that work is conversation. Some of it requires calling an application service. The GitHub Copilot SDK Link to article: …
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The engineering journey behind an Azure Managed Redis migration for Copilot Studio agent flows Microsoft Copilot Studio helps organizations build agents and automate business processes. Agent flows let those agents carry out repeatable work across conne Link to article: …
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In line with the six-month release cadence, Java 27 was released on September 15, 2026. In this blog post, we will look at what’s included in this release, how IntelliJ IDEA continues to support the latest Java versions, and even how IntelliJ IDEA is benefiting from some of the changes to the JDK. Java 27 […] Link to …
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Build a bounded C# pipeline with System.Threading.Channels using backpressure, explicit ownership, cancellation, draining, fault handling, and awaited workers. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/09/15/build-a-bounded-processing-pipeline-with-systemthreadingchannels
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I went looking for Azure SQL Database in a recent coding agent benchmark, honestly unsure whether Microsoft SQL would show up. Armature ran a study where real coding agent CLIs (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) were dropped into Link to article: …
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Before television shows like The Office and Parks and Recreation cemented the mockumentary in the minds of millions, there was Christopher Guest. He didn't invent the genre, but he's widely recognized as one of its most influential practitioners, and for my money, there's none better. I've watched Waiting for Guffman …
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In this post I provide an introduction to Device Bound Session Credentials, I look at how DBSC protects against session hijacking, and how the protocol works Link to article: https://andrewlock.net/understanding-device-bound-session-credentials/
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Property-based testing is a powerful alternative to example-based testing. Instead of defining specific inputs and verifying their outcomes, you define properties that should always hold true. Let’s learn how to use FsCheck to write property-based tests in C# with NUnit. Link to article: …
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Learn how Abnormal AI deployed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter as an ephemeral compute scratch pad for the agents behind its real-time email threat detection at billion-message scale, plus the sandbox design decisions and practical lessons for builders deploying Code Interpreter in production. Link to …
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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks through provisioning a portal, configuring GitHub and Slack 3LO targets, and the end-user consent flow, and shows how to review activity in AWS CloudTrail. Link to …
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At CppCon 2026, we shared how Visual Studio is evolving to help you work more effectively with large C++ codebases, improve build and runtime performance, adopt the latest language features, and incorporate AI into your existing workflows. This post is a companion reading guide for our session, Link to article: …
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