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Modern distributed systems fail in partial, uneven ways. A downstream API slows down, a database starts timing out, or a burst of messages arrives faster than a dependency can absorb. If every Azure Function instance retries immediately and indefinitely, the system creates its own backpressure and turns a transient fault into a wider outage. Two patterns are especially useful for controlling that failure mode: Exponential backoff increases the delay between retries so a dependency has time to recover. Circuit breaker stops repeated calls to an unhealthy dependency and fails fast until the dependency is likely to be healthy again. Used together, these patterns reduce retry storms, protect downstream systems, and give your Functions app a controlled way to degrade under stress. Reference architecture The queue absorbs burst traffic, the Functions app decides whether the dependency is safe to call, and failed work is either delayed or isolated instead of being retried immedi...

Amazon SageMaker Data Agent is now available in SageMaker Unified Studio domains configured with IAM Identity Center. Data Agent extends its AI-powered capabilities to help data analysts and engineers streamline their analytics workflows across both SageMaker notebooks and Query Editor environments, eliminating the need to manually write complex SQL joins, aggregations, and Python code. With Data Agent, you can describe your analysis goals in plain English and receive working Python or SQL code tailored to your connected data sources, including Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift, Amazon S3, and AWS Glue Data Catalog. The agent maintains conversational context across notebook cells, selected tables, and query history, proposing step-by-step plans before generating code. Use it to calculate quarterly revenue growth rates, generate visualizations, transform DataFrames, or optimize query performance—all through natural language interaction. The "Fix with AI" feature provides intell...

Come See Us at PyCon US 2026! Microsoft and GitHub will be at PyCon US 2026, May 14–17 in Long Beach, CA . Stop by our booth, say hello, and tell us about your experience with our tools and services. We'd love to meet you. Don't miss the Meta booth on Saturday at 1 p.m. , where we'll be showing off the integration of Pylance with Meta's new Pyrefly type checker. The integration is currently in early preview in our Insiders build, and we can't wait to bring it to all our users later this year. Hands-on Labs at the Booth Drop in for 10-minute interactive labs covering: GitHub Copilot Azure DocumentDB Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Agent Framework Azure PostgreSQL Azure AI Search Talks and Sessions Date & Time Room Session Speaker Wed, May 13 · 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 101A Build your first MCP server in Python Pamela Fox Wed, May 13 · 1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. 201B Dungeons and Databases: Build NPC agents to work with data in D...

Amazon RDS for Oracle now offers M8i and R8i instances with Oracle Database Standard Edition 2 (SE2) with the License Included (LI). M8i and R8i instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The new instances offer up to 15% better price-performance, and 2.5x more memory bandwidth compared to previous generation Intel-based instances. With RDS for Oracle SE2 LI, customers don’t have to separately purchase Oracle license and support. Amazon RDS for Oracle SE2 LI offers subscription based pay-per-use pricing inclusive of software license, support, compute resources, and a managed database service. To use RDS for Oracle SE2 LI, customers can create database instances from the AWS Management Console or using the AWS CLI . and specify the LI option. For more details about how you can lower cost and simplify operations of running Oracle database...

We are excited to announce the general availability of the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) 1.23 , continuing our journey to evolve the development model for Microsoft 365 extensibility. SharePoint Framework remains the easiest and most widely used approach to build enterprise solutions across Microsoft 365, providing automatic single sign-on, automatic hosting, and seamless integration with industry standard web development tooling. With the 1.23 release, we continue to build on the modernized foundation introduced in previous releases , focusing on improving developer productivity, aligning with the latest web ecosystem advancements, and enabling enhanced extensibility scenarios across Microsoft 365. This release reinforces our long term commitment to making SPFx the primary extensibility model for SharePoint and beyond. We will continue building on this momentum with the upcoming exciting features. Custom SPFx solutions are used by tens of millions of users every day across Microsoft ...

[caption id="attachment_1166" align="alignnone" width="944"] We're excited to share agent skills designed to efficiently build native Windows apps with WinUI and the Windows App SDK with agents such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. [/caption] These skills enable your agent to take your ideas to a native Windows app in minutes! They are built around the end-to-end loop : scaffold, build, run, test, iterate. They've been optimized to know how to drive each stage, recognize common failures that get normal agents stuck in loops, and steer towards successful patterns, while also minimizing the number of tokens used by your agent. We hope to continually improve this experience and outcomes as we gather more feedback and examples from our developer community! Try it # Add the WinUI plugin to GitHub Copilot CLI /plugin install winui@awesome-copilot # Run the winui-setup skill to install all prerequisites /winui-setup Then ask GitHub Copilot for the...