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Announcing Public Preview of Managed DevOps Pools (MDP) for Azure DevOps

Engineering teams ideally want to spend all their time writing code to create applications and services for their users! In reality, many end up spending a significant portion of their time on other tasks, such as maintaining DevOps infrastructure. In Azure DevOps, Microsoft-hosted agents (aka Azure Pipelines agents) provide a fully managed, ...


Introducing Agents in Semantic Kernel

Overview We are excited to announce support for agents as part of the Semantic Kernel ecosystem: An agent may be thought of as an AI entity that is focused on a performing a particular role.  Multiple agents may collaborate to accomplish a complex task.  In addition to their role definition, each agent may be defined with its own ...


What’s New in vcpkg (July 2024)

This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2024.07.12 release, 2024-07-10 tool release, as well as changes to vcpkg documentation throughout July. This month’s release includes some minor changes to output, bug fixes, and documentation improvements. Some stats for this period: &...


Similarity Search with FAISS and Azure SQL

In today’s data-driven world, finding similar items within large datasets is a common challenge. Whether it’s recommending products, identifying similar documents, or clustering data points, efficient similarity search is crucial. This blog post will explore how to leverage FAISS (Facebook AI Similarity Search) and Azure SQL to perform ...