Microsoft Orleans is a cross-platform framework for building distributed applications in C# that scales elastically across servers and cloud environments. Orleans 10.0 introduces a dashboard for cluster monitoring, stable Redis providers, and support for .NET 8–10, while earlier versions added features like cancellation token support, improved placement strategies, and source generators.
Microsoft's Agent Experience (Ax) Practitioner Playbook is a methodology for evaluating how AI coding agents perform with your technology, diagnosing failures, and implementing fixes. It synthesizes learnings from hundreds of agent sessions and provides a structured approach to evaluation, criteria development, failure diagnosis, and shipping improvements across SDKs, APIs, docs, and agent extensions.
Neon, a cloud backend platform with Postgres at its core, improved reliability across its distributed fleet spanning multiple clouds and regions. After two incidents caused by external dependency failures that cascaded through their control plane, the team implemented systematic reliability improvements including structured postmortems and detailed incident impact analysis.
LocalStack for Azure is now in public preview, offering a free local sandbox environment where developers can build, test, and validate Azure applications without deploying to live resources. It supports key Azure services including AKS, Functions, Storage, and Cosmos DB, with infrastructure-as-code compatibility for ARM, Bicep, and Terraform templates.