The Problem: HTTP Triggers and Long-Running Jobs Don't Mix Here's a situation you've probably run into: you have a job that needs to loop over dozens of Azure resources, call APIs, and do real work...

Skills are an agent's must-have. So test them. A skill is the lightest way to give an agent durable, reusable behavior: a SKILL.md file you author once, store centrally in Foundry's versioned Skill...

Introduction Deploying an AI application to Azure Container Apps is fundamentally different from deploying a web API. When you containerize a Django REST API, the application starts in a few second...

Introduction There is a particular kind of frustration that comes not when your application fails to start, but when it starts too slowly. The container is running, the health probes pass, your mon...

Introduction At Microsoft Build, it was announced that Foundry Hosted Agents now support source-code deployments. Previously, Hosted Agents required application code to be packaged in a container f...

Here's a confession: most "build with AI" webinars are 60 minutes of slides, 5 minutes of a polished demo someone rehearsed for a week, and a closing CTA. You leave inspired but not really sure what ...

Introduction Deploying to Azure Container Apps feels like a huge step forward — you get serverless containers, automatic scaling, built-in ingress, and managed environments without managing Kuberne...

Table of Contents Why This Pattern Matters The Problem with Secrets in YAML What We Wanted to Achieve Architecture Overview How the Flow Works Implementation Prerequisites Step-by-Ste...

The moment the agent reached for rm -rf For most of 2024 and 2025, "agents" were a demo word. By 2026 they are something you run — autonomously, in a loop, executing code they wrote themselves a se...