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This post demonstrates how to quickly deploy a production-ready event assistant using the components of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. We'll build an intelligent companion that remembers attendee preferences and builds personalized experiences over time, while Amazon Bedrock AgentCore handles the heavy lifting of production …
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Here's what shipped in azd this February! This post covers release versions 1.23.3, 1.23.4, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-february-2026
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Last time, we looked at recognizing that the user clicked the Close button (or equivalent nonclient gestures) on a dialog. The other system-provided pathway to dismissi Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260225-00/?p=112087
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We’re excited to share a seamless new integration between Docker Model Runner (DMR) and Open WebUI, bringing together two open source projects to make working with self-hosted models easier than ever. With this update, Open WebUI automatically detects and connects to Docker Model Runner running at localhost:12434. If …
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We move towards spring 2026 with strong momentum across the SharePoint Framework and an increasing sense of excitement across the ecosystem. SPFx continues to be a foundational platform for building intelligent, secure, and scalable experiences across Microsoft 365, with adoption growing and feedback from customers and …
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As applications grow in complexity, maintaining a clean architecture becomes increasingly challenging. The traditional package-by-layer approach of organizing code into controllers, services, repositories, and entities packages often leads to tightly coupled code that’s hard to maintain and evolve. Spring Modulith, …
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RubyMine enhances the developer experience with context-aware search features that make navigating a Rails application seamless, a powerful analysis engine that detects problems in the source code, and integrated support for the most popular version control systems. With AI becoming increasingly popular among …
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The excerpt highlights two recruiting approaches: strategic, quality-driven methods and the ineffective flypaper method, which focuses on quantity over candidate suitability. The latter can harm candidates' reputations and trust with hiring managers. It emphasizes the importance of working with skilled recruiters who …
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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss planning in software engineering -- why it looks different across environments, and why optimizing for agility beats optimizing for the perfect plan. Link to article: …
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Every experience in Office is designed using the principle "the user is in control." It’s critical that customers are the ones who make choices about their user experience, ensuring it fits their specific needs and workflows. Customers have asked for greater user control over add-in launch behavior in Office. …
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Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-ai-uses
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An 82-year-old German industrial engineer, a 22-year-old UI framework, and an AI that finally understands WinForms Designer serialization walk into a hotel room at midnight. There's no punchline. Just a dead dongle and a dead ... line. Well, I admit, it's sort of hard to believe, but how these three are connected is …
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This month’s Visual Studio update continues our focus on helping you move faster and stay in flow, with practical improvements across AI assistance, debugging, testing, and modernization. Building on the momentum from January’s editor updates, the February release brings smarter diagnostics and targeted support for …
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In this post, we show you how to build a comprehensive photo search system using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that integrates Amazon Rekognition for face and object detection, Amazon Neptune for relationship mapping, and Amazon Bedrock for AI-powered captioning. Link to article: …
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We're excited to announce improved Python support for the Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server! Python developers can now install and run Azure MCP Server directly from PyPI using familiar tools like uvx and pip. Whether you're Link to article: …
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In this post, we demonstrate how to train CodeFu-7B, a specialized 7-billion parameter model for competitive programming, using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with veRL, a flexible and efficient training library for large language models (LLMs) that enables straightforward extension of diverse RL algorithms …
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This post explores the implementation of Dottxt’s Outlines framework as a practical approach to implementing structured outputs using AWS Marketplace in Amazon SageMaker. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/generate-structured-output-from-llms-with-dottxt-outlines-in-aws/
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In this post, we are exciting to announce availability of Global CRIS for customers in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan and give a walkthrough of technical implementation steps, and cover quota management best practices to maximize the value of your AI Inference deployments. We also provide guidance …
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We’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 through Amazon Bedrock global cross-Region inference for customers operating in the Middle East. In this post, we guide you through the capabilities of each Anthropic …
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We started by exploring the signals the dialog manager uses for dismissing a dialog. Now we can use that information to customize the dismiss behavior. Let's start with a diagr Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260224-00/?p=112082
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