Eric D. Boyd

Addressing Sovereign requirements with the Microsoft Cloud Learn how Microsoft approaches public and private sovereign cloud needs, including challenges building applications for restricted or fully air-gapped environments.

Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup is tomorrow evening.

Harald Fianbakken will be talking about sovereign requirements, Azure Local, and what changes when you're building for restricted or air-gapped environments.

Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 Join me at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 for a two-day hands-on Python + AI workshop, plus two sessions on building and designing enterprise-ready AI agents.

I'll be at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas next week teaching a two-day Python + AI lab and speaking about AI agents.

If you're interested in Python, AI/ML, Copilot Studio, Foundry, or designing enterprise agentic systems, join me in Vegas.

And reply here to let me know what you want to learn most.

Get well. I can relate to this. I had a couple of rounds run through my house a couple of weeks ago.

Azure Live Q&A A short, live Q&A webinar where I answer questions about Azure to help people with the fundamentals of Azure and unblock common challenges.

Thursday is the final Live Q&A session.

If you want practical answers to Azure questions, join me live.

Reply with questions you have about #Azure, maybe it's identity, cost visibility, landing-zone design, common service choices, or even certifications, and I'll try to answer them on Thursday.

Addressing Sovereign requirements with the Microsoft Cloud Learn how Microsoft approaches public and private sovereign cloud needs, including challenges building applications for restricted or fully air-gapped environments.

If sovereign cloud, disconnected environments, or regulated workloads sound interesting,
Harald Fianbakken is joining us at Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup to talk through Microsoft's approach with Azure Local, and the challenges that show up when an environment is restricted or fully air-gapped.

Spec Driven development with GitHub Spec Kit I’m speaking at the Cleveland C# User Group on how GitHub Spec Kit helps teams move from “vibe coding” to spec-driven, repeatable AI-assisted delivery.

Feeling disappointed with vibe coding with AI coding agents?

Join me this evening to learn about spec-driven development with GitHub Spec Kit.

It's totally free and online, so you can join from the comfort of your home or office.

Thanks to Sam Nasr and the Cleveland C# UG for hosting the event.

I have lots to say and share about MCP and AI Agents. I'd love to present at the #MCPDevSummit, but I'm already presenting at #CypherCon that week, and it is also Good Friday. So, I can't.

If you also have things share with the #MCP community, you just have a few more hours to submit sessions.

I had a blast presenting Spec Driven development with GitHub Spec Kit at the Microsoft #AITour NYC.

Thanks Mike Richter for the great intro and taking a selfie with me and the other 200+ attendees.

In the Microsoft #AITour keynote and @sethjuarez.com is rocking it talking about GitHub Copilot.

Microsoft AI Tour NYC I’m giving a lightning talk at the 2026 Microsoft AI Tour in New York City (NYC) on how Spec Kit helps you move from “vibe coding” to spec-driven, repeatable AI-assisted delivery.

The registration is getting full for my session at #AITour NYC.
If you want to attend my session on Spec-Driven development with GitHub Spec Kit, I recommend:

- Clicking the "Add to schedule" button on the session page
- Arrive early to ensure you get a seat

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Astro is joining Cloudflare The Astro Technology Company team — the creators of the Astro web framework — is joining Cloudflare. We’re doubling down on making Astro the best framework for content-driven websites, today and in th...

I've hated WordPress for a while, and in recent years I've become a fan of the simplicity of Astro. There are tradeoffs, for sure.

After today's announcement of a CloudFlare acquisition, Astro seems to have even more of a future.

blog.cloudflare.com/astro-joins-...

Azure Live Q&A A short, live Q&A webinar where I answer questions about Azure to help people with the fundamentals of Azure and unblock common challenges.

Yesterday's Azure Live Q&A session was a blast. If you missed it, there are a few more opportunities, including the next one on Thursday, January 29th.

The registration information is in the link below.
https://ericboyd.com/events/azure-live-qa-january-29-2026-getting-started-with-azure

Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 Join me at Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 for a two-day hands-on Python + AI workshop, plus two sessions on building and designing enterprise-ready AI agents.

I am teaching a 2-day Python and AI hands-on-lab workshop at Visual Studio Live Las Vegas this March. You can save $500 with my discount code.

ericboyd.com/events/visua...

#VSLive @vslive.bsky.social

Microsoft AI Tour in New York City  Take the inside track to the AI frontier at the Microsoft AI Tour. Learn from experts, explore real-world strategies, and gain the insight to lead with AI. Request to attend now.

I'm looking forward to seeing Veronika Kolesnikova present "Model Evaluation for Everyone" next week at Microsoft AI Tour NYC.

https://aitour.microsoft.com/flow/microsoft/nyc26/sessioncatalog/page/sessioncatalog/session/1760572434476001Y6Zo

Azure Live Q&A A short, live Q&A webinar where I answer questions about Azure to help people with the fundamentals of Azure and unblock common challenges.

Thursday, January 15 is the first Azure Live Q&A session of the year and the first of the final three months.

Join me and you get answers to your #Azure questions live.

More info and registration links are here:
https://ericboyd.com/events/azure-live-qa-january-15-2026-getting-started-with-azure

Microsoft AI Tour NYC I’m giving a lightning talk at the 2026 Microsoft AI Tour in New York City (NYC) on how Spec Kit helps you move from “vibe coding” to spec-driven, repeatable AI-assisted delivery.

I'm speaking at the Microsoft AI Tour NYC on Spec-Driven Dev with Spec Kit.

Are you attending?
Reply and tell me what question you have and what you want to see.

For more info about my session, visit
https://ericboyd.com/events/microsoft-ai-tour-new-york-city-2026-spec-driven-development-spec-kit

Azure Live Q&A Farewell Tour - The Final 3 Months After nine years, I’m wrapping up the Azure Live Q&A series. Join the final three-months of sessions live, ask questions, and help spread the word.

Azure Live Q&A is ending after nine years. Join me for a final three-month farewell tour of live sessions where you can get Azure answers in real time.

https://ericboyd.com/articles/microsoft-azure-live-qa-farewell-tour

See the timeline, a little bit about the history, and join the finale.

An Introduction to MCP Servers Learn how Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) can help you standardize AI integrations and build powerful, tool-using agents using open-source MCP servers.

We're kicking off this year at the Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup with @trayburn.bsky.social introducing model context protocol (MCP) servers. Join @davidgiard.bsky.social, me, and others from the tech community next Tuesday, January 6, at the Chicago Microsoft office.

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@burkeholland.bsky.social do you know of a site like this?

I recently stumbled upon a directory website for GitHub Copilot prompts, agents, instructions, etc.

It wasn't the awesome-copilot GitHub repo. It was a well-designed website.

I can't find it. I think it was created by an MVP. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

What Isn't Your System Supposed to Do? Learn how formal methods and new ways of thinking about system properties and state spaces can help you find bugs in large systems before you write a line of code.

Join me, David Giard and others from the Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup community next Tuesday evening, December 9.

We'll have pizza, time to chat and meet others, and presentations from Hillel Wayne and Aviral Bhardwaj.

Live 360 2025 Keynote - Azure at 15: What’s Next for the Cloud, AI, and You YouTube video by Live! 360 Events

I'm about to start the keynote at #Live360 Orlando.

#Azure at 15. What's next for the Cloud, AI, and you.

www.youtube.com/live/QNYkRz2...

Mary is getting set up to present at tonight's Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup. I'm looking forward to her presentation.

Event Streaming and Multi-Agent AI for Cloud-Native Architectures Explore how event streaming underpins autonomous, cloud-native multi-agent AI applications with real-time, elastic scalability.

We’ve got a great meetup coming up on Wednesday, Nov 5, 6-8 PM at the Microsoft Chicago office. @mgrygles.bsky.social will talk about how event-streaming underpins cloud-native multi-agent AI architectures.

More information and Meetup RSVP links can be found here.
ericboyd.com/events/chica...

Thanks for this docs link. That's helpful in understanding the versioning strategy.

I used the RC as an example, but I'm curious why they have been different.

Why do the SDK and packages have different version numbers for the .NET 10 RC? They are similar, but different.

10.0.100-rc.1.25451.107 (sdk)
10.0.0-rc.1.25451.107 (packages like Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi)

Accelerate Your Azure Journey with GitHub Copilot AI-assisted infrastructure as code (IaC) development. GitHub Copilot, Bicep, ARM, and Azure.

Who's joining me at the Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup tonight?

Three things I enjoy working with (GitHub Copilot & IaC with Bicep, ARM, PS & Azure) in one session from Pete Rodriguez.

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Accelerate Your Azure Journey with GitHub Copilot AI-assisted infrastructure as code (IaC) development. GitHub Copilot, Bicep, ARM, and Azure.

I'm missing the #Chicago #AITour today, but I don’t want you to miss our next Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup on Tuesday, Oct 7.

Pete Rodriguez will show us how GitHub Copilot helps with Bicep & ARM IaC to deploy in Azure.

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#Azure #GitHubCopilot #IaC

Inside the world’s most powerful AI datacenter - The Official Microsoft Blog This week we have introduced a wave of purpose-built datacenters and infrastructure investments we are making around the world to support the global adoption of cutting-edge AI workloads and cloud ser...

As a Mount Pleasant resident, I've watched the new Microsoft AI data center take shape.

It's exciting to see @scottgu's announcement and post, which provide a clearer picture of the data center's design, purpose, and components.

blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...