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Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️

@daverendon

articles: 25
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active: 2025-07-09 → 2026-07-16

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Inside Microsoft Foundry Toolbox and Content Understanding: A Technical Deep Dive

Deep dive into Microsoft Foundry Toolbox and Content Understanding: use one MCP endpoint to end AI agent tool sprawl and turn documents…

Jun 11, 2026 · 15 min read · 68 claps paywalled #technology #artificial-intelligence #data-science

Inside Microsoft Foundry Toolbox and Content Understanding: A Technical Deep Dive

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Microsoft IQ, Explained: How to Build Context-Aware AI Agents That Actually Ship

A deep dive into Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Foundry IQ, and Web IQ, the context layer behind Microsoft’s enterprise agent stack.

Jun 08, 2026 · 13 min read · 68 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #data-science

Microsoft IQ, Explained: How to Build Context-Aware AI Agents That Actually Ship

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · Stackademic

Local AI on Windows: A Developer’s Guide to Running Models on CPU, GPU, and NPU

Learn how to run local AI on Windows across CPU, GPU, and NPU using Windows AI APIs, Foundry Local, and Windows ML, with code and an…

Jun 14, 2026 · 14 min read · 61 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #data-science #machine-learning

Local AI on Windows: A Developer’s Guide to Running Models on CPU, GPU, and NPU

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · DevOps.dev

Inside NVIDIA OpenShell: Zero-Trust Runtime Security for Autonomous AI Agents

NVIDIA OpenShell explained: how zero-trust sandboxes, provable policy, and a privacy router keep AI coding agents secure at the kernel…

Jul 07, 2026 · 13 min read · 34 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

Inside NVIDIA OpenShell: Zero-Trust Runtime Security for Autonomous AI Agents

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

How Microsoft AI Builds Coding Models Optimized for GitHub Copilot

How Microsoft AI built MAI-Code-1-Flash for GitHub Copilot: the sparse Mixture of Experts architecture, training pipeline, and benchmarks…

Jul 13, 2026 · 12 min read · 27 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #programming #github-copilot

How Microsoft AI Builds Coding Models Optimized for GitHub Copilot

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · CodeX

The Runtime Is the Hard Part: Running AI Agents in Production on Azure Container Apps

Learn how Azure Container Apps Sandboxes, Express, and serverless GPUs run AI agents in production with sub-second starts, isolation, and…

Jul 07, 2026 · 14 min read · 26 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

The Runtime Is the Hard Part: Running AI Agents in Production on Azure Container Apps

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · CodeX

The Repository That Reviews Itself

Triage bots, disposable test boxes, pooled API budgets, and a review loop that calls itself, reconstructed from the source.

Jul 16, 2026 · 21 min read · 22 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #agentic-ai #software-engineering

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Agent Ready Data: How PepsiCo Engineered Its Agentic AI Stack on Azure

A technical breakdown of how PepsiCo built an agent-ready data foundation on Azure with vector search, governed text to SQL, and…

Jun 30, 2026 · 11 min read · 21 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #data-science #machine-learning

Agent Ready Data: How PepsiCo Engineered Its Agentic AI Stack on Azure

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · DevOps.dev

One Runtime for Many Agents: Running LangGraph, .NET,

Learn how three AI agents in different frameworks run as one pipeline on Azure Container Apps, using isolated Sandboxes and Microsoft…

Jul 06, 2026 · 13 min read · 20 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

One Runtime for Many Agents: Running LangGraph, .NET,

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · DevOps.dev

One Agent, Every Channel: Microsoft Foundry and Twilio, End to End

A technical walkthrough of hosted agents, the Agent Connect SDK, and the architecture that gives a voice call and a text message one shared…

Jul 08, 2026 · 12 min read · 17 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

One Agent, Every Channel: Microsoft Foundry and Twilio, End to End

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

How Microsoft Agent 365 Makes Any AI Agent Enterprise-Ready

Learn how Microsoft Agent 365 gives any AI agent an Entra identity, live observability, and governance with Purview and Defender throughout…

Jul 03, 2026 · 15 min read · 11 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

How Microsoft Agent 365 Makes Any AI Agent Enterprise-Ready

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Your Laptop Is Now an Agent Runtime

How hybrid local and cloud execution actually works, from a one-character routing decision to the memory wall that stops long-running…

Jul 10, 2026 · 14 min read · 11 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #programming #machine-learning

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Distributed Systems to AI Platforms: A Field Guide to the Agent Era Stack

How the agent era reshapes distributed systems: KV cache locality, expert parallelism, AI superfactories, and confidential computing…

Jul 09, 2026 · 19 min read · 9 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #data-science #machine-learning

Distributed Systems to AI Platforms: A Field Guide to the Agent Era Stack

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Build Work-Ready AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry and Work IQ, Govern Them with Agent 365

Learn how to build a Microsoft Foundry AI agent grounded in Work IQ context and Foundry IQ knowledge, test it with evals, and govern it…

Jun 21, 2026 · 13 min read · 8 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

Build Work-Ready AI Agents with Microsoft Foundry and Work IQ, Govern Them with Agent 365

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

From Workflows to Agentic Automation with Azure Logic Apps

How the agent loop, managed retrieval, and the Microsoft Foundry integration close the gap between an AI agent demo and a governed…

Jun 13, 2026 · 11 min read · 8 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #data-science

From Workflows to Agentic Automation with Azure Logic Apps

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Microsoft Discovery Deep Dive: Running Autonomous Science With the Discovery Engine and GraphRAG

A technical deep dive into Microsoft Discovery: how the Discovery Engine, GraphRAG Bookshelf, and Azure run agentic AI for scientific…

Jul 04, 2026 · 12 min read · 7 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

Microsoft Discovery Deep Dive: Running Autonomous Science With the Discovery Engine and GraphRAG

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · ITNEXT

Inside MAI-Thinking-1: How Microsoft Built a Reasoning Model From Scratch

A technical breakdown of Microsoft AI’s new model family, with a deep dive into the reasoning model, the training loop, and Frontier…

Jun 23, 2026 · 11 min read · 7 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #data-science #machine-learning

Inside MAI-Thinking-1: How Microsoft Built a Reasoning Model From Scratch

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · CodeX

The Verifier Is the Ceiling: Agentic Coding with Claude Code and Cowork in Microsoft Foundry.

How Claude Code and Cowork run inside Microsoft Foundry: auto mode classifiers, evaluator agents, computer use, and 1,000 subagent dynamic…

Jul 09, 2026 · 17 min read · 1 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

The Verifier Is the Ceiling: Agentic Coding with Claude Code and Cowork in Microsoft Foundry.

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · DevOps.dev

Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations: The AI-Powered Engine That Compresses Days of…

A technical deep dive into the Defender XDR and Purview DSI integration, with architecture, AI internals, the Data Risk Graph, DSPM-driven…

May 13, 2026 · 19 min read · 0 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

Microsoft Purview Data Security Investigations: The AI-Powered Engine That Compresses Days of…

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · DevOps.dev

WSL Containers, SPGO, and the New Windows Developer Stack

Linux containers inside your .exe, 165 Unix commands on PATH, and a 33% faster binary without a single instrumented build

Jul 11, 2026 · 18 min read · 0 claps paywalled #windows #programming #developer-tools

WSL Containers, SPGO, and the New Windows Developer Stack

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · CodeX

Post-Training Open Source Reasoning Models in Microsoft Foundry: From Production Traces to a…

Learn to post-train open-source reasoning models in Microsoft Foundry using SFT and RFT, then deploy lower-cost agents that improve in…

Jun 18, 2026 · 16 min read · 0 claps paywalled #machine-learning #microsoft-azure #fine-tuning

Post-Training Open Source Reasoning Models in Microsoft Foundry: From Production Traces to a…

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Inside the World’s Largest Cloud: A Deep Dive on Mark Russinovich’s Azure Infrastructure Summit…

A no slides, no marketing conversation between Rick Claus and Mark Russinovich on how Microsoft actually runs Azure, why managed identities…

May 19, 2026 · 14 min read · 0 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #cybersecurity #azure

Inside the World’s Largest Cloud: A Deep Dive on Mark Russinovich’s Azure Infrastructure Summit…

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · CodeToDeploy

Inside GitHub’s Agent-Native Engineering System: Six Layers That Move Code to Production

A technical breakdown of GitHub’s Agent-Native Engineering System: the Copilot app, sandboxes, Agent Merge, Chronicle, and multi-model code…

Jun 17, 2026 · 12 min read · 0 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #technology #programming

Inside GitHub’s Agent-Native Engineering System: Six Layers That Move Code to Production

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DA Dave R - Microsoft Azure & AI MVP☁️ · DevOps.dev

WSL Containers: How Windows Finally Runs Linux Containers Without Docker Desktop

WSL Containers run Linux containers natively on Windows using the new wslc CLI and container API. A deep dive into the architecture and GPU…

Jun 23, 2026 · 11 min read · 0 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #data-science #machine-learning

WSL Containers: How Windows Finally Runs Linux Containers Without Docker Desktop

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A 3.8B-parameter transformer finely tuned for edge-scale, multi-step mathematical reasoning with SambaY architecture, 64K context, and…

Jul 09, 2025 · 5 min read · 0 claps #machine-learning #azure #artificial-intelligence