Published: 2026-07-16
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Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #116 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. Using GitHub Copilot for Linux performance troubleshooting on Azure
Linux performance troubleshooting on Azure isn’t usually limited by a lack of data — it’s limited by knowing what to investigate next. In this session, Karl Abbott shows how GitHub Copilot can help move from performance signals to answers faster. Using a real Azure Linux VM scenario, he demonstrates how Copilot can diagnose high load, identify CPU saturation, connect signals across CPU, memory, and disk I/O, explain the root cause, apply a fix, and verify recovery. Join Karl Abbott where you’ll see how Copilot acts as a knowledgeable pair partner for Linux performance analysis — choosing diagnostic tools, interpreting output, and making troubleshooting knowledge easier to share across teams.
2. How Sprinklr leverages Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 VMs for massive scale
See how Sprinklr is transforming customer experience at global scale with Microsoft Azure Cobalt 100 VMs. By modernizing on Arm-based infrastructure, Sprinklr is boosting efficiency, lowering compute costs, and powering real-time insights across billions of customer interactions. Learn how Sprinklr and Microsoft are helping brands understand and serve customers better than ever.
3. Install & Configure the Azure Migrate Appliance: Discovery, Readiness & Business Case
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install and configure the Azure Migrate appliance, run discovery of your VMware environment, assess migration readiness, generate a migration business case, and prepare your Azure landing zone.
4. Turning Coding Agents into an Azure Cosmos DB Expert with the Agent Kit
In this Azure Friday episode, Scott Hanselman and Sajeetharan Sinnathurai demonstrate the Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit — a skill you install with one command that gives your coding agent 100+ Cosmos DB best-practice rules across data modeling, partitioning, query optimization, and SDK usage and much more. Using a multi-agent fitness coaching app as an example, they show how the kit caught a missing partition key filter that was leaking member data across tenants, recommended hierarchical partitioning for multi-tenant scale, and fixed a fan-out query—all before the code shipped to production
5. Kimi K2.7 Code is Now Available in Microsoft Foundry
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Kimi K2 7B Code is now available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing strong code generation and development capabilities into the platform developers already use to build AI-powered applications. In this post, I walk through what Kimi K2 7B Code is, why it matters for developers, and how you can quickly get started experimenting with it in Foundry. If you’re exploring AI-assisted development, coding agents, or the latest open models in the Microsoft ecosystem, this is worth a look.
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Have a wonderful Thursday 😉
Taswar
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