Published: 2026-04-30 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-30th-april-2026-110-edition-taswar-bhatti-dobcf Here is the #110 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. 1. AI Memory Patterns: Save Tokens, Cut Costs […]
Archive: April 2026
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is now generally available (GA) in Microsoft Foundry, and this is one of those releases that matters less for “chat” and more for getting actual work done—end-to-end. The big theme: messy, multi-step requests → completed tasks, with stronger reliability in planning, tool use, UI navigation, and recovery when something breaks mid-flow. If you’re […]
Published: 2026-04-23 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-23th-april-2026-109-edition-taswar-bhatti-1exif Here is the #109 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. Happy Childrens Day if you are in Turkiye. 👶 I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this alng to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to […]
Generative AI for images has gone from “cool demo” to something teams actually run in production. Microsoft has now made OpenAI’s GPT‑image‑2 generally available in Microsoft Foundry, and it’s a meaningful upgrade for developers building image-heavy workflows at scale. This isn’t just “another image model.” GPT‑image‑2 focuses on instruction accuracy, higher resolution output, localization, and […]
Published: 2026-04-16 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-16th-april-2026-108-edition-taswar-bhatti-boevf Here is the #108 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday to help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. 1. Use AI to Achieve Operational Excellence with the Well-Architected Framework practices […]
Published: 2026-04-09 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-9th-april-2026-107-edition-taswar-bhatti-bgcyf Here is the #107 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday to help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. 1. Tech Brief: Agentic DevOps with GitHub Copilot (April 28th) Join the […]
Published: 2026-04-02 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-2nd-april-2026-106-edition-taswar-bhatti-u3pxf Here is the #106 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday to help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. 1. Native Regex in SQL Server 2025 REGEX in Microsoft SQL (SQL […]
