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Recall that Microspeak is not merely for jargon exclusive to Microsoft, but it's jargon that you need to know to survive at Microsoft. In business, funding usually refers to having enough money to pay for ongoing operations. In Microsoft engineering groups, it doesn't mean that. In Microspeak, funding refers to having enough people available to work on a feature. A feature that has adequate people assigned to work on it is considered to be funded , or for emphasis, fully funded , whereas a feature that does not have people working on it is unfunded . Of course, you can have intermediate states, like partially funded , to say that some people have been assigned to it, but not enough to finish the work in time for a specific requested completion date. Here are some citations I found. Funding for this feature is being worked through. This is another way of saying, "We are working on finding people to work on this feature." This might come at the cost of defundi...

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams now supports a dry run feature to check whether an API request would succeed without executing the operation. Customers can now set the new optional parameter ‘DryRun’ to true in their API requests to validate permissions before interacting with a stream in production. Previously, customers had no safe way to test whether their application had the correct permissions to access a stream. They would often send a request engineered to fail after checking permissions, such as a PutRecord request with a payload deliberately larger than the maximum supported size. This approach was fragile as it depended on current service limits, and if those limits ever changed, the request could unexpectedly succeed, writing unintended records into the production stream and into any downstream consumers. Now, customers can simply set the parameter ‘DryRun’ to true to indicate they only want to validate the API request. If all checks complete successfully, the API returns a ‘D...