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diptiborkar summarizes why Microsoft Fabric and OneLake were recognized as a Leader in Forrester’s 2026 Data Lakehouses report, focusing on a unified lakehouse foundation for analytics and AI, open table formats, cross-cloud interoperability, and built-in governance and security across engines like Spark, SQL, KQL, and Power BI.

GitHub announces stacked pull requests and points to the official docs, focusing on how the feature helps teams review and manage a series of dependent changes more clearly.

arindamc explains how Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP) in Microsoft Fabric controls outbound connectivity for Eventstream, so streaming pipelines can only read from approved sources and write to approved destinations (including cross-workspace routes) using data connection rules.

GitHub shares a lofi-focused coding stream themed around keeping pull requests small and using stacked PRs, aimed at helping developers stay in a steady flow while working in their terminal and reviewing and merging changes.

Samantha Kubota explains how Microsoft is pushing better AI performance per token and per dollar by co-optimizing models with evaluation harnesses and RL environments, sharing recent “Flash” model releases and benchmark results that reduce GPU costs while maintaining quality across products.

Allison announces a GitHub Actions update that lets workflows reference actions and reusable workflows in the same repository using a new $/ prefix, avoiding an explicit checkout and keeping internal references aligned with the exact commit being executed.

Cassidy Williams shows how she used the GitHub Copilot app to modernize an old React codebase by splitting work into stacked sessions and stacked pull requests, keeping changes reviewable while iterating on plans, branching strategy, and dependency upgrades.

Shawn Henry and Tamir Dresher show how to run a multi-agent “Squad” team on top of the GitHub Copilot CLI/SDK and expose it as a first-class Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) AIAgent in a .NET app, including DI wiring, session configuration, and OpenTelemetry-based observability.

GitHub hosts a Rubber Duck Thursdays session focused on Stacked PRs, covering how the feature fits into pull request workflows and what it changes for day-to-day code review and collaboration.

MattH_OneLake announces two Microsoft Fabric preview features that mirror Azure Monitor (Log Analytics) tables and AWS Glue Data Catalog-managed Apache Iceberg tables into OneLake. The post explains the zero-copy, metadata-based approach and outlines how to set up each mirroring source for analysis across Fabric workloads.

Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip for reducing token usage and improving GitHub Copilot results by running a grammar check on your prompt before submitting it in VS Code.

GitHub announces stacked pull requests and explains how they help teams break large changes into smaller, reviewable layers that can be merged one-by-one or all at once.

Allison announces GitHub stacked pull requests in public preview, a workflow for breaking large changes into an ordered series of smaller PRs that can be reviewed independently and merged together, while still respecting existing checks, reviews, and branch protections.

robece-msft outlines how to build event-driven applications in Microsoft Fabric using Business Events and User Data Functions, with code samples, architecture patterns, and practical scenarios aimed at teams building real-time, data-centric solutions.

Alym Rayani rounds up July 2026 updates across Microsoft Security, focusing on securing AI and agent environments. The post highlights Project Perception’s agentic SecOps approach, new Microsoft Defender protections (including prompt-injection defenses and cloud agent runtime coverage), Entra identity updates like passkeys-by-default, and Purview controls for data protection and investigations.

Allison summarizes the July 2026 updates for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, including a new preview agent built on the Copilot SDK, built-in .NET and Azure skills, selected-code review actions, and organization-wide custom instructions for consistent Copilot behavior across teams.

Allison announces a new GitHub Copilot enterprise managed setting that lets organizations restrict which managed devices can host remotely controlled Copilot sessions, including options to require SSO, disable remote control, or allow it without restrictions.

Gwyneth Peña-Siguenza demonstrates how to debug a real Python API in VS Code, covering breakpoints, stepping, variable inspection, watch expressions, and the call stack, plus how GitHub Copilot can help you understand failures and fix bugs faster.

Tzvia introduces Real-Time Dashboard in Microsoft Fabric, focusing on using streaming data to build live operational views that update in seconds so teams can spot spikes, slowdowns, and stalled processes quickly and respond while events are still unfolding.

Fokko at Work demos selected new features in Visual Studio Code 1.131 that relate to GitHub Copilot, including subagents session information in the Agents window and dictation mode, with notes on how enterprise policies and pricing plans can affect feature availability.

Allison announces general availability for Copilot code review support for agent skills and MCP server connections, enabling teams to bring internal standards and external context into reviews. The update includes attribution on generated comments and outlines where to configure MCP servers and store tokens in repository settings.

ealroybrin introduces Microsoft Fabric Embed (Preview), which lets developers embed Fabric Real-Time Dashboards into JavaScript/TypeScript web apps using delegated Microsoft Entra ID authentication. The post outlines what the preview supports, key limitations (like no service principal auth), and how Fabric governance and permissions carry over to embedded experiences.

GitHub walks through what an agent Skill is and how to build one in GitHub Copilot, then covers what’s new in the MCP release that shipped this week.

Santhosh_Ravin1 announces general availability of job concurrency and queue monitoring for Apache Spark in Microsoft Fabric, adding a capacity-level view to help diagnose why Spark jobs are queued or throttled and to understand how individual workspaces consume shared capacity over time.

Ilana Waitser introduces a preview capability that brings Azure Monitor telemetry into Microsoft Fabric so teams can connect operational signals (logs and metrics) with analytics workflows and understand business impact faster.

hetvip introduces a community template collection that lets teams keep their existing workflow orchestrator (like Airflow, Temporal, or Argo) while using Azure Container Apps Jobs as the execution layer for containerized tasks, including guidance on identity, RBAC, retries, and fan-out patterns.

gauravbhardwaj explains how GitHub Copilot’s pooled included credits and metered overages work, and how to use user-level budgets and enterprise budgets to cap spend without unexpectedly blocking developers.

Ilana Waitser announces a public preview that lets you share Azure Monitor Logs from a Log Analytics workspace into Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake as Delta Parquet, without duplicating data. The post explains what this enables in Fabric—Power BI reporting, Spark-based analytics and ML, and correlating telemetry with business data for near real-time decisions.

Justin Bettencourt rounds up the July 2026 Azure SDK releases, highlighting new and GA libraries across Rust and Python, plus a full set of release notes for all supported languages.

stevenjma announces the general availability of Terraform AzureRM provider 5.0 and explains the key breaking changes, including new defaults for Resource Provider registration, opt-in Azure preflight validation during terraform plan, and removal of deprecated resources and properties.

Aurnov Chattopadhyay recaps the June 2026 Azure Arc Server Forum, including updates on the Arc Server AI Agent, Azure Arc Multicloud Connector previews (GCP connector and EKS cluster enablement), and ESU guidance for Windows Server 2016/2012 and SQL Server 2016 end-of-support timelines.

Davide Mauri breaks down where AI genuinely helps in a real-world developer-focused app, using an example that improves how developers find relevant resources faster while keeping the application’s core purpose unchanged.

Santhosh_Ravin1 announces that Microsoft Fabric now extends customer-managed key (CMK) encryption to the Spark processing layer, covering data that Spark jobs read, write, and temporarily stage on compute clusters—aimed at meeting stricter security and compliance expectations for key control during active processing.

murray-kp rounds up the July 2026 Microsoft Fabric updates across CI/CD and Git integration, OneLake governance, Spark runtime and diagnostics, lakehouse and warehouse features, and Real-Time Intelligence improvements including Eventstream security and new connectors.

Bruno Borges explains how to reduce Dependabot pull request noise without slowing down vulnerability fixes, using Microsoft’s GCToolkit repo as an example. The post shows how to group version updates, move to a monthly cadence, cover all ecosystems you use, and tune the new default “cooldown” window for safer upgrades.

Visual Studio Code highlights three popular dark themes for VS Code—One Dark Pro, Midnight City, and Tokyo Night—prompting developers to compare the look and pick a favorite for their editor setup.

Rachel Kang introduces a new “thinking effort” control in Visual Studio 18.9 Insiders 2 that lets developers tune how much reasoning supported AI models use per request. The post explains the available levels, where to configure them in the model management UI, and how higher reasoning settings affect usage credits and response depth.

GitHub shows how to customize the GitHub Copilot app, including themes and sounds, voice dictation and transcription model settings, and connecting custom MCP servers or local AI models using bring-your-own-key providers.

Allison announces a new GitHub Copilot policy that automatically enables newly generally available models by default for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, with a single opt-out control for organizations that need stricter governance.

Andrew Lock explains the browser Fetch Metadata request headers (Sec-Fetch-Site, Sec-Fetch-Mode, Sec-Fetch-Dest, and Sec-Fetch-User), what their values mean, and how servers can use them to spot suspicious cross-origin requests and add another layer of CSRF defense alongside tokens and SameSite cookies.