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Back in October, we showed how Docker Model Runner on the NVIDIA DGX Spark makes it remarkably easy to run large AI models locally with the same familiar Docker experience developers already trust. That post struck a chord: hundreds of developers discovered that a compact desktop system paired with Docker Model Runner …
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In this post, you learn how to build a FinOps agent using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that helps your finance team manage AWS costs across multiple accounts. This conversational agent consolidates data from AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Budgets, and AWS Compute Optimizer into a single interface, so your team can ask questions …
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In this post, we show you how to build a similar system for your organization. You will learn the architecture decisions, implementation details, and deployment process that can help you automate your own compliance workflows. Link to article: …
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In this post, we demonstrate how to implement agentic QA automation through QA Studio, a reference solution built with Amazon Nova Act. You will see how to define tests in natural language that adapt automatically to UI changes, explore the serverless architecture that executes tests reliably at scale, and get …
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Debugging distributed apps is hard. When something goes wrong, the problem could be in any service, and the evidence is scattered across separate log streams, trace collectors, and configuration sources. Aspire makes telemetry a first-class concern by configuring OpenTelemetry by default and collecting all telemetry in …
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Agents have crossed a threshold. Over a quarter of all production code is now AI-authored, and developers who use agents are merging roughly 60% more pull requests. But these gains only come when you let agents run autonomously. And to unlock that, you have to get out of the way.That means letting agents run without... …
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I'm excited to announce that AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing and AWS DevOps Agent are now generally available, representing a new class of AI capabilities we announced at re:Invent called frontier agents. These autonomous systems work independently to achieve goals, scale massively to tackle concurrent …
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This month's Visual Studio update gives you new ways to customize GitHub Copilot. Custom agents allow you to build specialized Copilot agents tailored to your team's workflow, backed by the tools and knowledge sources that matter to your project. Alongside that, agent skills bring reusable instruction sets, and a new …
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Traditional frameworks designed for static deployments cannot address the dynamic interactions that define agentic workloads. AI Risk Intelligence (AIRI), from AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, provides the automated rigor required to govern agents at enterprise scale—a fundamental reimagining of how security, …
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See Factory Method pattern in action with a complete real-world C# example. Step-by-step implementation of a payment processing system using factory methods. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/31/factory-method-pattern-realworld-example-in-c-complete-implementation
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March was a busy month for Kotlin, with a new language release, fresh tooling, ecosystem updates, and plenty of inspiration ahead of KotlinConf’26. From practical improvements to exciting steps in AI and multiplatform, there’s a lot worth exploring. Here are the stories that stood out to me most. Where you can learn …
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Tracking down performance bottlenecks in Visual Studio often means interrupting your workflow, restarting your application in profiling mode, and hoping you can reliably reproduce the exact issue. We think there’s a better way. If you have already used Monitoring in Rider, this experience will feel familiar. Now, the …
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Amper 0.10.0 is out, and it brings a variety of new features, such as JDK provisioning, custom Kotlin compiler plugins, a Maven-to-Amper converter, and numerous IDE improvements! Read on for all of the details, and see the release notes for the full list of changes and bug fixes. To get support for Amper’s latest …
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What really happens when you write throw new Exception() in .NET? Microsoft guidelines state that When a member throws an exception, its performance can be orders of magnitude slower. It's not just a simple jump to a catch block, but a lot goes in CLR (Common Language Runtime) Link to article: …
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The Azure Developer CLI (azd) shipped seven releases in March 2026. Most notably, azd now has a local run-and-debug loop for AI agents, GitHub Copilot–powered project setup, and Container App Jobs deployment. Here's what's in versions 1.2 Link to article: …
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Back in 2019, I wrote about securing back-end App Service web apps using VNets and Service Endpoints. That approach worked well at the time, but Azure has moved on significantly since then. In this post, I'll show the modern way to achieve the same thing using Private Endpoints — which is now Microsoft's recommended …
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Learn how C# source generator attributes trigger code generation in .NET. Complete guide to the marker attribute pattern with ForAttributeWithMetadataName. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/30/c-source-generator-attributes-generating-code-with-forattributewithmetadataname
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GitHub Copilot SDK vs Semantic Kernel in C# -- a practical comparison. Understand when to use each framework, their key differences, and how to choose for your .NET AI applications. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/30/github-copilot-sdk-vs-semantic-kernel-when-to-use-each-in-c
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Welcome to PyCharm 2026.1. This release doesn’t just add features – it rethinks how you build, debug, and scale Python projects. From a brand-new debugging engine powered by debugpy to first-class uv support on remote targets and expanded JavaScript support in the free tier, this version is all about removing friction …
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In this post, you'll learn how Ring implemented metadata-driven filtering for Region-specific content, separated content management into ingestion, evaluation and promotion workflows, and achieved cost savings while scaling up. Link to article: …
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