There are a lot of AI model announcements these days, but every now and then one lands that feels immediately practical for real engineering work. Claude Opus 4.8 showing up in Microsoft Foundry feels like one of those releases. Microsoft is positioning Claude Opus 4.8 around coding, agentic workflows, and deeper reasoning for enterprise scenarios, […]
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Published: 2026-05-20 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-21st-may-2026-111-edition-taswar-bhatti-kwige Here is the #111 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. STATE-Bench – Memory-agnostic Benchmark Join Jorge Arteiro, […]
If you’ve been building AI-powered apps lately, you’ve probably noticed that the conversation is shifting. It’s no longer just about “generate text.” It’s about reasoning, multi-step workflows, and agents that actually do things. That’s why I got excited when I saw Grok 4.3 land in Microsoft Foundry. This isn’t just another model drop — it’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I wanted to start a series of blog post, maybe later include videos also on Azure OpenAI specifically for .NET Developers. Developers who use C# as their main languge of choice. The reason is I see lots of Python examples out there and felt a market was left out for most of the examples on […]
Some may wonder what is the difference between ValueTuple and Tuple that was released in C# 7, and you might say I have been using Tuples for a while now. Whats the difference? Some of you will remember with code like below that showcase the use of ValueTuple since .NET Framework 4.7
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public Tuple<string, string> GetUserName(int userid) { var firstname = db.GetFirstname(userid); var lastname = db.GetLastname(userid); return new Tuple(firstname, lastname); } |
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Was playing around with Azure functions and thought I would write a quick blog post on how to use Azure functions to read a text file and send an email out to me daily. Basically I went with a joke a day idea. So lets get started with writing some of the awesome code 🙂 […]
For the past year I have been evaluating and working and even presented ElasticSearch, and I thought it would be good to showcase a series of article on ElasticSearch for .NET Developers. What it brings to the table when developing a software solution. I also did a talk on ElasticSearch at Montreal DevTeach, if you […]
