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
AI systems must retain conversation history, tool outputs, and user context across multiple turns. Basic approaches can quickly inflate token usage or lose critical context. In this session, Chander D. (CEO of Cazton, 15-time Microsoft MVP) explores three memory patterns implemented using Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL
2. Getting Started with Security Copilot
This session walks through what you actually need to get started with Microsoft Security Copilot. It covers the E5 inclusion requirements and provide a practical, day‑one overview of the core experiences and agents you’ll use immediately—so you can move from setup to real value faster.
3. How do we draw agentic borders?
As AI agents become more capable—and more autonomous—one question rises fast: How do we draw agentic borders? For many organizations, this is also a sovereignty question: what stays in-country, who can access it, and how do you enforce policy across systems and regions? In this episode of The Shift Podcast: Agentic Edition, Evelyn Ozzie , Meena J Gowdar, Edouard de Cremiers, Karim Batthish from Microsoft Azure explore the evolving boundaries between agents, humans, systems, and responsibility—and what it takes to keep trust and accountability as AI becomes more agentic.
4.Azure SRE Agent: End to end agentic operations platform for any kind of toil and at enterprise scale
In this Azure Friday session, join Scott Hanselman & Shamir Abdul Aziz walk through how to get started with Azure SRE Agent and demonstrate how agentic workflows can be applied to real operational scenarios—from help desk tickets to cost analysis and reporting and anything in between.
5.Hooking Up All the Things, Making Your Developer’s Life Easier
Want to simplify distributed app development and stop wiring everything together manually? In this @VisualStudioLive session from Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026, Jeffrey T. Fritz shows how to use .NET Aspire to orchestrate services, containers, and integrations so you can “hook up all the things” and make your developer life easier.
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Have a wonderful Thursday 🙂
Taswar