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Microsoft and OpenAI launched GPT-5 on the Azure AI Foundry, revolutionizing enterprise AI with its advanced reasoning and task-specific model orchestration. This suite enhances applications like Microsoft 365 Copilot and GitHub Copilot, enabling seamless interactions and high-quality outputs tailored for real-world scenarios. GPT-5 empowers organizations to drive AI transformation efficiently.
By Steef-Jan WiggersSam Newman discusses the three golden rules of distributed computing and how they necessitate robust handling of timeouts, retries, and idempotency. He provides practical, data-driven strategies for implementing these principles, including using request IDs and server-side fingerprinting to create safe, resilient distributed systems.
By Sam NewmanEmerson Murphy-Hill explains how to prioritize investments in engineering productivity using data from Google, National Instruments, and ABB. He discusses a ranked list of productivity drivers, the impact of biases in code reviews and documentation, and the practices of exceptionally diverse and inclusive engineering teams.
By Emerson Murphy-HillAnthropic has recently made Claude Code Subagents generally available, enabling developers to create independent, task-specific AI agents with their own context, tools, and prompts.
By Hien LuuSoftware provenance is gaining new importance as organizations look for ways to secure their supply chains against tampering and comply with emerging standards like SLSA
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