Azure IaaS and Azure Local: announcements and updates (October 2025 – Weeks: 39 and 40)
Azure Local Arc Gateway is now GA, providing a centralized HTTPS egress point for Azure Local workloads, simplifying security and reducing endpoints.
Azure Local Arc Gateway is now GA, providing a centralized HTTPS egress point for Azure Local workloads, simplifying security and reducing endpoints.
A guide on using GitHub Actions to securely checkout a specific branch from a private repository, enabling reusable components in CI/CD workflows.
A curated collection of tech articles covering design systems, data platforms, real-time alerts, microservices, and IoT security.
A look at gradient.style, a CSS tool for creating and sharing HDR gradients with sharable URLs and multi-layered imports.
A technical guide to implementing private, secure distributed tracing with Grafana Tempo on Azure Kubernetes Service using Azure Blob Storage and Private Link.
PostgreSQL 19 introduces GROUP BY ALL, a new SQL feature that automatically groups by all non-aggregate columns, simplifying queries.
A guide to setting up Microsoft Intune's Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) to enforce least-privilege security by allowing controlled, auditable application elevations.
Introduces vtime, a custom command-line utility for tracking and displaying elapsed time of long-running processes in real-time.
A detailed academic history tracing the core ideas behind large language models, from distributed representations to the transformer architecture.
Introducing Cachy, an open-source Python package that caches LLM API calls to speed up development, testing, and clean up notebook diffs.
EF Core 10.0 adds support for the new JSON data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2025, enabling querying and storage of JSON documents.
Announcing libghostty-vt, a zero-dependency library for parsing terminal sequences and managing terminal state, extracted from the Ghostty terminal emulator.
Exploring .NET 10's new platform-specific tool features and strategies for maintaining compatibility with older .NET SDK versions.
A guide to building an autonomous, self-healing optimization pipeline for Apache Iceberg tables to maintain performance and cost efficiency.
Announcing two free online tech sessions: building a low-cost data warehouse with Azure and a beginner's guide to database indexing.
Explains how rerankers improve search and AI results by reordering retrieved documents for better precision and relevance.
Explains LLM API token limits (TPM) and strategies for managing concurrent requests to avoid rate limiting in production applications.
EF Core 10.0 introduces a new ComplexProperty() method for mapping complex types, providing an alternative to the older Owned Entities approach.
Updated T-SQL diagnostic queries for SQL Server (2005-2025) and Azure SQL to analyze instance configuration and performance.
Explains how Azure Arc provides unified management for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, bringing on-prem and other cloud resources into Azure's control plane.