Episode 316 – Azure DevOps or GitHub?

Azure Developer CLI (azd) – August 2025

This post announces the August release of the Azure Developer CLI (`azd`). The post Azure Developer CLI (azd) – August 2025 appeared fir...

Azurite: Build Azure Queues and Functions Locally with C#

Lets say you are a beginner Microsoft Azure developer and you want to : Normally, these tasks require an Azure Subscription. But what if I tol...

Data encryption with customer-managed key (CMK) for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

Built-in security for every configuration Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore is designed with security as a foundational principle. Regardless ...

Azure Developer CLI: From Dev to Prod with Azure DevOps Pipelines

Building on our previous post about implementing dev-to-prod promotion with GitHub Actions, this follow-up demonstrates the same “build ...

Azure DevOps OAuth Client Secrets Now Shown Only Once

We’re making an important change to how Azure DevOps displays OAuth client secrets to align with industry best practices and improve our overa...

Build a Conversational SMS Appointment Scheduler with Azure Communication Services + OpenAI

Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra v5.0 Generally Available!

Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra Upgrade to Cassandra v5.0 is now generally available, bringing a host of powerful new features and...

Hunting Living Secrets: Secret Validity Checks Arrive in GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps

If you’ve ever waded through a swamp of secret scanning alerts wondering, “Which of these are actually dangerous right now?”— this enhancement...

Real-Time Security with Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) comes to Azure DevOps

We’re thrilled to announce that Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) is now supported on Azure DevOps, bringing a new level of near real-time se...

GPT-5 in Azure AI Foundry featuring model router