Tag: Development

Shopify swapped Redis for MySQL and its inventory reservations scaled

Shopify moved the inventory reservation system that backs its checkout flow off Redis and onto MySQL, and the migration held up through a Black Friday peak. The engineering team wrote up the details on the Shopify Engineering blog, and the writeup is worth reading if you run anything with hot rows and high contention. The […]

pgrust shows Postgres can catch up on analytics with batching and SIMD

A Rust-based Postgres rewrite called pgrust has been making the rounds, and its claim is hard to ignore: it runs analytical queries hundreds of times faster than stock Postgres. The author’s write-up walks through how, and the techniques are refreshingly concrete. This is not a vaporware benchmark grab, it is a working implementation that passes […]

Azure Databricks Lakebase Branching Gets GitHub Copilot Agent Mode

Azure Databricks has quietly closed a gap that every data engineer hits at some point: how do you safely test change against a production database without risking the real thing? The answer, now in public preview, is Lakebase branching with GitHub Copilot agent mode. It lets developers spin up an isolated copy-on-write branch of a […]

PowerShell 7.6 Runbooks and Runtime Environment Reach GA in Azure Automation

Azure Automation catches up with the latest PowerShell Azure Automation now supports PowerShell 7.6 runbooks in general availability, alongside a new Runtime environment feature that simplifies how execution environments are configured and managed. The update brings Azure Automation in line with the current PowerShell release cycle, which Microsoft has been steadily accelerating. PowerShell 7.6 ships […]

GitHub Copilot Modernization Now Generally Available

AI-powered legacy upgrades go GA GitHub Copilot modernization has reached general availability. The feature, initially previewed earlier this year, uses AI to help developers upgrade legacy codebases across .NET, Java, and C++ projects in Visual Studio and VS Code. Instead of manually working through migration guides, developers can describe the target framework or API to […]

Claude-of-Duty: 55,000 lines of 3D game code from a single prompt

Matt Shumer did it again. His latest project, Claude-of-Duty, is a first-person shooter built entirely from a single prompt to Claude, generating about 55,000 lines of Three.js code with zero external art assets. The result is a playable 3D FPS that looks more like a tech demo than a AAA game, but that misses the […]

Code generation connectors land in Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework, the open source orchestration library for building multi-agent AI systems, now ships generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. The connectors let .NET and Python agents delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The project has grown to 12,300 stars on GitHub with 2,100 forks and […]

Azure Functions Python 3.14 support is now generally available

Azure Functions now supports Python 3.14 for local development and deployment on Linux plans, giving serverless developers access to the latest Python runtime with an extended support window through 2029. The update is relatively straightforward on the surface — another runtime added to the platform — but it has real implications if you maintain Python-based […]

GitHub Copilot and Claude Code connectors now generally available in Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft has shipped generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code in the Microsoft Agent Framework, letting developers build .NET and Python agents that delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The connectors plug into the Agent Framework’s standard tool-use pipeline, so agents can call out to Copilot or Claude […]

Azure Functions now supports Python 3.14 GA

Azure Functions has added general availability support for Python 3.14. You can develop functions locally with Python 3.14 and deploy them to Azure Functions plans on Linux, taking advantage of the latest Python runtime enhancements and extended support lifecycle. What Python 3.14 brings to Azure Functions Python 3.14 ships with a handful of quality-of-life improvements […]

Microsoft Introduces Unified Multi-Agent Orchestration SDK

Microsoft has released the Agent Framework as part of Microsoft Foundry, and it is essentially the unification of AutoGen and Semantic Kernel into a single SDK for C# and Python. If you have been following Microsoft’s agent story for the past year, you know that the fragmentation between these two frameworks has been a persistent […]