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WindowsMarch 17, 2026
Published by Desi Villanueva
<p>Taming the Noisy Inbox: How I Used MCP to Automate Email and Teams Triage How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) turns your AI coding assistant into a workplace productivity engine — connecting Microsoft 365 data to your terminal workflow.   The Problem We All Share If you work in a customer-facing role, you know the […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/from-150-unread-to-zero-stress-automating-inbox-triage-with-mcp-and-github-copilot/">From 150 Unread to Zero Stress: Automating Inbox Triage with MCP and GitHub Copilot</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
March 17, 2026
Published by Chris Harris
<p>Part 2 of the Azure Skills Plugin series Previously: Announcing the Azure Skills Plugin This post is all about getting you up and running. I won’t go deep on capabilities, architecture or anything like that here – that’s coming in future posts in this series. The goal is to get the plugin installed, verified, and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/azure-skills-plugin-lets-get-started/">Azure Skills Plugin – Let’s Get Started!</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
March 13, 2026
Published by Diego Casati, Ray Kao
<p>We keep doing this thing where we solve a problem, celebrate the victory, then realize we’ve created three new problems we didn’t even know existed. Remember when manually configuring servers was the bottleneck? So we built containers. Great! Now we’re orchestrating thousands of them. Remember when monolithic deployments were too slow? So we built microservices. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/the-human-scale-problem-in-platform-engineering/">The Human Scale Problem in Platform Engineering</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
March 9, 2026
Published by Chris Harris
<p>Part 1 of the Azure Skills Plugin series Coding agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude Code are great at code, but getting your app to production on Azure is not just about writing code. Really, it is about making the right calls. Which service fits this app? Which SKU fits this workload? Should this be […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/announcing-the-azure-skills-plugin/">Announcing the Azure Skills Plugin</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
March 5, 2026
Published by Arnaud Lheureux, davidwright
<p>For the last decade, platform engineering has relied on explicit API interaction layers: CLIs, SDKs, pipelines, wrappers, and UI workflows that translate human intent into machine‑safe API calls. AI agents are now short‑circuiting much of that stack. By combining natural language understanding, reasoning, and direct access to API specifications and control schemas, agents can convert […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/platform-engineering-for-the-agentic-ai-era/">Platform Engineering for the Agentic AI era</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
February 26, 2026
Published by Eldrick Wega
<p>If you want to skip the explain and get started super quick with adoption + impact insights, use gh-devlake to deploy a GitHub Copilot impact dashboard in a few CLI commands. So! You’ve rolled out GitHub Copilot to your engineering teams. You’ve got the built-in dashboards. You know how many seats are assigned, what the […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/measuring-actual-ai-impact-for-engineering-with-apache-devlake/">Measuring actual AI Impact for Engineering with Apache DevLake</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
February 4, 2026
Published by Poornima Prasad
<p>We are currently living through the “fragmentation phase” of the AI revolution. If you’re a developer, you know the drill: You have Claude Code open for reasoning. You have ChatGPT open for logic checks. Then you drop into your terminal to actually build the thing—manually copy-pasting context between three different windows. We call this the […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/the-os-for-intelligence-how-github-bridges-the-fragmented-ai-landscape/">The OS for Intelligence: How GitHub Bridges the Fragmented AI Landscape</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
January 21, 2026
Published by Govind Kamtamneni
<p>Code will be generated, not written. Most enterprise AI workloads are net-new microservices. Modular, greenfield work. Perfect for coding agents. The catch? Out-of-the-box agents lack domain knowledge about your SDKs and patterns. But frontier LLMs are extraordinarily sample efficient. The patterns you need are already encoded in their latent space from pretraining. All you need […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/context-driven-development-agent-skills-for-microsoft-foundry-and-azure/">Context-Driven Development: Agent Skills for Microsoft Foundry and Azure</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
January 7, 2026
Published by jkordick
<p>How to read this article This article is a reflection based on hands-on experience and is written for engineers and technical leaders who are facing a new application modernization effort and want to build a realistic mental model before reaching for tools. If you are new to application modernization, I recommend reading the article end to end. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/the-realities-of-application-modernization-with-agentic-ai-early-2026/">The Realities of Application Modernization with Agentic AI (Early 2026)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
December 18, 2025
Published by Chris Romp
<p>1. Introduction AI coding agents/assistants such as GitHub Copilot have become common in modern software engineering workflows. Their strengths—rapid pattern completion, context-aware suggestions, and the ability to learn style from local code—stem from broad training on large corpora of public, general-purpose code. They perform best when the languages, libraries, and idioms requested by developers align […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/ai-coding-agents-domain-specific-languages/">AI Coding Agents and Domain-Specific Languages: Challenges and Practical Mitigation Strategies</a> appeared first on <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure">All things Azure</a>.</p>
