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Azure Functions Agents - the markdown-first runtime that turns a folder of *.agent.md files into a serverless Azure Functions app - now ships with OpenTelemetry tracing built into the runtime itself....
Aug 03, 2026
Why Markdown for Agents?
Web pages often contain scripts, styles, and HTML markup that are useful to browsers but add noise when the content is sent to an AI model. Markdown for Agents removes that...
Aug 03, 2026
Azure Container Apps Jobs are a good fit for batch processing, ETL, machine learning, reports, and other tasks that run to completion. But when those tasks have dependencies, retries, or fan-out, you...
Jul 29, 2026
If MCP is becoming the “USB-C for AI,” enterprises need something equally familiar on the other side of that port: a control plane. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI applications a standard w...
Jul 22, 2026
Microsoft Foundry can now create or associate an APIM-based AI Gateway. Here is what changes for App Service agents, what remains in APIM, and the v2-tier requirement that affects existing gateways.
Jul 17, 2026
Learn what MCP Enterprise-Managed Authorization changes, how Entra ID and App Service map to the model today, and explore a working Python reference with a local ID-JAG lab.
Jul 16, 2026
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This Customer Zero story explains how Microsoft 365 built COSMIC, a platform engineering layer on top of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), to standardize how cloud services are deployed and operated at...
Jul 15, 2026
A complete App Service sample that combines Redis conversation history with Cosmos DB vector memory through Microsoft Agent Framework providers and passwordless Azure access.
Jul 15, 2026
A conversational agent doesn't answer like an API. You send one message. The server returns 200 OK. And then nothing happens. The real answer is still coming, streaming back over a WebSocket as one r...
Jul 15, 2026
Azure Container Apps (ACA) Jobs are a great way to run work that starts, does something, and finishes: nightly batch, data processing, ETL, ML scoring, report generation. They scale to zero, bill per...
Jul 14, 2026