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We've entered an era where AI agents autonomously invoke tools — reading and writing files, calling APIs, querying databases. Convenient as this is, without a mechanism to control who can call what, ...
Jul 02, 2026
Recently, a customer building servers with the Azure Functions MCP extension reached out and asked:
How do I handle tools that take longer than the client is willing to wait?
This becomes esp...
Jul 01, 2026
ACA Express Apps are a strong fit for teams that need to ship quickly and can't afford long platform setup cycles. This includes startups, internal platform teams, and product groups deploying APIs, ...
Jun 30, 2026
Logs are often the fastest way to understand what is happening inside your application. Whether you are investigating startup behavior, runtime errors, failed requests, dependency issues, or unexpect...
Jun 25, 2026
By Johnson Shi, Aviral Takkar, Bin Du
Introduction
Two of the most common networking questions we hear from teams running Azure Container Registry (ACR) are:
"Can my registry serve clients on...
Jun 24, 2026
The Model Context Protocol exploded onto the scene because it's easy. Stand up a server, expose a few tools, point Claude or VS Code at it, and your agent can suddenly read files, hit APIs, and run c...
Jun 23, 2026
A couple of months ago I wrote about scaling MCP servers behind App Service's built-in load balancer. The trick back then was to lean on stateless HTTP transport so any instance could serve any reque...
Jun 23, 2026
Authors: Payal Mahesh and Vicky Lin
Azure Container Registry team: Jeanine Burke and Johnson Shi
Introduction
It's Monday morning. You spin up a fresh 1,000-node AKS cluster for a big training ...
Jun 22, 2026
If you've started working with MCP servers in GitHub Copilot, Claude, or any other agent host in an enterprise environment, you've probably hit a similar problem. You want to give your developers acc...
Jun 18, 2026
AI is transforming the SDLC at speed but there's a quieter question following close behind. If the code is being written for your junior developers, when do they learn the skills to become senior...
Jun 12, 2026