In AI applications, tokens are now cost — and token economics deserves architectural attention For a long time, AI application design started with model capability: Can the model write code? Can it...

Introduction External collaboration is a common requirement for business applications built on Microsoft Power Platform. Organizations may need to provide controlled access to vendors, partners, co...

Introduction This blog is the next part of a series discussing Foundry Hosted Agents and how to properly construct Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) for them. This post will sp...

There is a moment, the first time you open a GitHub Copilot App Canvas, when you reach for the wrong metaphor. You see panels, buttons, live status cards and you think "dashboard." You start designin...

What if your development environment didn't just help you write code, but helped you observe, steer, and evolve a living system while it runs? That's the shift GitHub Copilot App Canvas represents. C...

Introduction A customer came to me with a problem that many organisations have. They control their infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code, but there are often scenarios where an admin needs ...

If you have spent any time building with large language models in the last year, you have hit the same wall everyone hits: your model is brilliant at reasoning but blind to the real world. It cannot ...

Join us for a new 3-part livestream series where we take a deep technical look at Microsoft IQ, the knowledge layer for the next generation of AI experiences. You'll learn how Foundry IQ, Work IQ, an...

Why put API Management in front of your MCP servers The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly become the standard way for AI agents, such as GitHub Copilot in VS Code, to reach external tools an...

The number that changes the conversation Most "run an LLM locally" tutorials start with the model. This one starts with a bill. Every token a cloud LLM generates is metered. One request is roundi...