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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

  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...

When an app fails to start on Azure App Service for Linux, one of the first things you need is visibility into what happened during startup. This can include container initialization, runtime setup, ...

By Arav Goyal, Joy Shah, Michael Cheng, Manik Sikka, Jenny Hunter, Johnson Shi   Introduction When a user creates, updates, or deletes a resource in Azure, the request flows through Azure Resou...

At Microsoft Build 2026, Azure App Service introduced a powerful set of updates designed to help organizations accelerate their journey into AI, without increasing complexity or cost. These innovatio...