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Azure Arc-Enabled Data Services: Run Azure Data Anywhere
Arc-enabled data services bring cloud-native database capabilities to any environment. Whether you need SQL Server or PostgreSQL, you can run managed…
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Azure Arc-Enabled Kubernetes: Manage Kubernetes Clusters Anywhere
Arc enabled Kubernetes provides: Inventory and grouping : Organize clusters in Azure Resource Manager GitOps configurations : Deploy applications using Git…
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Azure Arc-Enabled Servers: Manage Any Server from Azure
Azure Arc-enabled servers bring Azure's management capabilities to your entire server estate, regardless of where those servers run. This unified management…
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Azure Percept: Edge AI Development Made Simple
Azure Percept makes edge AI accessible to developers without deep expertise in hardware or ML. Combined with Azure's cloud services, it enables…
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Responsible AI in Practice: Building Ethical AI Systems
Responsible AI isn't a one-time checkbox - it's an ongoing commitment that must be embedded in every stage of the AI lifecycle. Microsoft's tools and…
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Azure OpenAI Service Announced: What We Know About the Limited Preview
This announcement is exciting for the enterprise AI space. The combination of OpenAI's powerful models with Azure's enterprise infrastructure addresses a…
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Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse: Real-Time Analytics on Business Data
Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse eliminates the traditional barriers between operational and analytical systems. Business users get insights from live data…
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Power BI Deployment Pipelines: CI/CD for Business Intelligence
Power BI Deployment Pipelines transform how organizations manage their analytics lifecycle. By bringing CI/CD practices to BI, teams can deliver insights…
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Power BI Premium Capacities: Scaling Enterprise Analytics
Premium capacities offer: Dedicated compute : No sharing with other tenants Larger datasets : Up to 400GB per dataset Paginated reports : Enterprise…
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Power Fx: The Low-Code Programming Language for Everyone
Power Fx makes programming accessible to everyone who knows Excel. As it expands across the Power Platform and beyond, expect to see it become a standard…
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Dataverse for Teams: Building Data-Driven Apps Inside Microsoft Teams
Dataverse for Teams democratizes data platform capabilities. Teams users can now build real applications with proper data management without needing IT…
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Run for Autism - 2021
A couple of weeks ago, I started a campaign to raise money into my Run For Autism 2021. Long story short, I made it! Raising the money, running the…
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Power Platform Managed Environments: Enterprise Governance at Scale
Managed Environments represent a significant maturation of Power Platform governance. For enterprises that want to enable citizen development while…
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Azure Static Web Apps Enterprise Features: Production-Ready JAMstack
Azure Static Web Apps with enterprise features provides a production-ready platform for modern web applications. The combination of global distribution…
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Azure Functions with .NET 6: In-Process and Isolated Worker Models
In-Process: Functions run in the same process as the Functions host Isolated Worker: Functions run in a separate worker process
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Hot Reload in .NET 6: Edit Code Without Restarting
This is different from traditional "Edit and Continue" debugging - Hot Reload works with or without the debugger attached.
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Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6: Building Lightweight HTTP Services
Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core 6 are the answer to the question "why do I need controllers, action filters, model binding, and routing tables just to expose a…
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C# 10 Features: Writing Cleaner, More Expressive Code
C# 10 continues the trend of making the language more expressive while reducing boilerplate. Combined with .NET 6's performance improvements, it's a great…
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.NET 6 GA: The Long-Term Support Release That Changes Everything
No Startup.cs, no Main method, no namespace declarations. This is possible thanks to C# 10's global usings and file-scoped namespaces.
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Repos in Databricks: Managing Production Deployments
Databricks Repos in production use means the code running in your prod workspace is explicitly linked to a specific Git commit—not "whatever notebooks…
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Git Integration in Databricks for Version Control
Databricks Git integration (Repos) connects the workspace directly to GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket, replacing the manual pattern of…
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Databricks Notebook Workflows for Data Pipelines
Databricks notebook workflows—chaining notebooks together using dbutils.notebook.run()—are the stepping stone between "notebooks as scripts" and proper…
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Databricks REST API for Advanced Automation
The Databricks REST API exposes every workspace capability that the UI and CLI provide—and then some—making it the integration point for external…
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Mastering the Databricks CLI for Automation
The Databricks CLI is the command-line interface for Databricks workspace operations—running jobs, managing clusters, deploying libraries, uploading…