Welcome to the Proactive Reliability Series — a collection of articles dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of designing, implementing, and operating reliable solutions in Azure. Each ...

Introduction When provisioning cloud infrastructure using Terraform, it is common to require sensitive values such as: Administrative credentials (usernames, passwords) API keys and tokens ...

The architectural problem In any non-trivial GenAI platform, you end up managing a fleet of models. Cheap models for classification and light chat. Reasoning models for multi-step tasks. Frontier m...

Automatic Plan Correction (APC) is one of the features that I find myself talking about quite a bit with customers, support engineers, and the broader SQL community. It is part of the Automatic Tunin...

Customers expect a seamless experience when they buy, renew, and manage cloud services through you. For Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners, that experience depends on the operational readiness be...

Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to safeguard the growing volumes of data required to support their teaching, learning, and research. As hybrid learning environments become...

  DjangoCon Africa Some journeys begin with a plan. Others begin with a brave choice—and the determination to keep showing up. For Ariane Djeupang, becoming a Microsoft Most Valuable Profession...

The problem I wanted to explore Most agentic AI systems today follow a familiar pattern: you design the workflow, you decide which agents exist, you wire the communication between them. That works ...

Microsoft’s Customer Zero blog series gives an insider view of how Microsoft builds and operates Microsoft using our trusted, enterprise-grade IQ platform. Learn best practices from our engineering t...