This edition is packed with insightful, practical, and curiosity-fueling reads. From hands-on advice to thought-provoking pieces, we’ve gathered a nice selection of stories that will help you stay sharp and inspired in the tech world. We’re also happy to have Josh Long as our featured content author this month! Expect …

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Azure Cosmos DB’s geospatial capabilities just got even better! We're excited to announce that you can now sort query results by distance using an ORDER BY ST_DISTANCE(...) clause in the NoSQL query language while leveraging a spatial index. [video width="1920 Link to article: …

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Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now features Query Advisor, designed to help you write faster and more efficient queries. Whether you’re optimizing for performance, cost, or scalability, Query Advisor provides actionable recommendations to help you get the most out of your data. Why Query Optimization Matters Azure Cosmos …

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Guest post by Urs Peter, Senior Software Engineer and JetBrains-certified Kotlin Trainer. For readers who’d like a more structured way to build Kotlin skills, Urs also leads the Kotlin Upskill Program at Xebia Academy. This is the third post in The Ultimate Guide to Successfully Adopting Kotlin in a Java-Dominated …

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This is a guest post from Dido Grigorov, a deep learning engineer and Python programmer with 17 years of experience in the field. In the rapidly evolving domain of software development, Python has established itself as a premier language, renowned for its simplicity, readability, and versatility. It underpins a vast …

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When talking about Domain-Driven Design (DDD), the repository pattern becomes a default choice for the data access layer. Another pattern is the Specification pattern that organizes code into smaller objects. The question raised here is which suits your project and which is more maintainable as your project scales? I …

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More than 1 million business customers around the world now use OpenAI. Across healthcare, life sciences, financial services, and more, ChatGPT and our APIs are driving a new era of intelligent, AI-powered work. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work

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Agents took over VS Code in 2025. We released agent mode for VS Code, integration for the Copilot coding agent, and the new GitHub Copilot CLI. But Copilot is not the only agent game in town. There are now more coding agents than ever, including options from OpenAI and Anthropic. Link to article: …

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