Three years ago, a 15-second cold start was industry-leading. Today, developers and AI agents expect sub-second. The speed bar has moved, and the tooling needs to move with it. After running Azure ...

What happens when you hand a coding agent a real browser — not a mock, not an API wrapper, but a full Chromium instance running in the cloud? It fills form for you. It does research for you. It nav...

Microsoft’s Customer Zero blog series gives an insider view of how Microsoft builds and operates Microsoft using our trusted, enterprise-grade agentic platform. Learn best practices from our engineer...

Summary As cloud-native systems scale, performance challenges rarely stem from a single bottleneck. Instead, they emerge from the interaction between compute, orchestration, and data layers under l...

The Alert Problem Organizations running Azure Monitor tend to land in one of two situations: Alert fatigue has set in. Alert rules tend to grow over time — a CPU threshold from two years ago, a...

What's a Plugin? A plugin bundles two things: Skills — Operational knowledge (triage runbooks, policy rules, known issues) the agent reads at runtime to guide its reasoning MCP Connectors — L...

Overview The New Relic MCP server is a cloud-hosted bridge between your New Relic account and Azure SRE Agent. Once configured, it enables real-time interaction with your observability data—APM tra...

As AI agents evolve from simple chatbots into workflow engines, decision-makers, and copilots, one challenge has remained stubbornly unsolved: How do we connect intelligent agents to rich, dynamic, u...

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...

Securing Your AI Agents Before They Ship: Red Teaming with Microsoft PyRIT   You wouldn't ship a web app without running OWASP ZAP or Snyk. So why are AI agents going to production without a sing...