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Top Links From code to community: The collective effort behind SQL Server 2025 (Debbi Lyons) Highlights from Git 2.50 (Taylor Blau) Bob Ward: SQL Server 2025 – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #354 (Jeffrey Palermo) Scale AI transformation with Azure Essentials: AI Center of Excellence guidance (Cyril Belikoff) OpenTelemetry Plugin for JetBrains Rider: Observability Inside Your IDE and Rider 2025.2 EAP 5: Reimagined Monitoring tool window and New OpenTelemetry Plugin (Sasha Ivanova) ...

7 Key Insights from the State of DevSecOps Report (Sponsored)Datadog analyzed data from tens of thousands of orgs to uncover 7 key insights on modern DevSecOps practices and application security risks. Highlights: Why smaller container images reduce severe vulns How runtime context helps you prioritize critical CVEs The link between deploy frequency and outdated dependencies ...

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into business workflows, organizations are leveraging private large language models (LLMs) to automate tasks, extract insights, and streamline operations. This shift brings with it a growing reliance on sensitive and proprietary data, fueling both innovation and new security risks. One of the most overlooked threats in this new landscape is the presence of secrets embedded in the data used to train or interact with AI models. These secrets can be inadvertently exposed during model training or inference, potentially leaking access to critical systems. ...

Expanding the many ways in which users can interact with our apps is one of the most exciting parts of working with modern AI models and device capabilities. With .NET MAUI, it’s easy to enhance your app from a text-based experience to one that supports voice, vision, and more. Previously I covered adding voice support to the “to do” app from our Microsoft Build 2025 session. Now I’ll review the vision side of multimodal intelligence. I want to let users capture or select an image and have AI extract actionable information from it to create a project and tasks in the Telepathic sample app. This goes well beyond OCR scanning by using an AI agent to use context and prompting to produce meaningful input. ...

What security practices should you keep in mind as you write and share Terraform configuration? This post discusses five important practices to ensure that your Terraform configuration remains secure. These practices range from verification of modules and providers to limiting access to state and credentials. 1. Verify modules and providers Modules and providers behave as external dependencies for a Terraform configuration, so handle them with the same attention that you’d give to software libraries or artifacts. Verifying the integrity, source, and version of providers and modules ensures that you do not download dependencies with unapproved configurations or even worse, malicious code. As a general approach, make sure you clearly define the source and version of providers and modules approved for use. ...

In this post (and the subsequent post) I describe the Git workflow that I typically use when I’m working on medium-to-large features. For these features I like to use stacked branches and stacked PRs, where each branch is a small unit of the work that can be reviewed, but where each branch builds on top of previous commits in the stack. In this post I describe the overall workflow I use, as we as some of the approaches I use to make working with stacked branches easier. ...

I’ve been at Google just over five years, but my other job (“dad”) is going on eighteen. The pay is better, hours longer, and purpose stronger. Each Father’s Day is a reminder to prioritize the right job. [blog] Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix. Having issues with core data concepts being defined differently across systems and teams? So does Netflix. Here’s how they attempted to solve it. ...