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AI Engineering
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Microsoft Foundry's Production-Agent Release: A Solution Architect's Read
Foundry made hosted agents GA and put agent identity first with Entra Agent ID — but governance tooling is still preview and there's no SLA yet.
The AI Gateway in Azure API Management: A Control Plane for Enterprise AI
One control plane for enterprise AI — how APIM's AI gateway gives security, network, and infrastructure teams governance over models, MCP tools, agents.
Zed and DeltaDB: Version Control Between Commits
Zed's DeltaDB is a bet that AI-assisted software work needs operation-level history, conversation-linked code, and collaboration before a Git commit exists.
Magentic-UI + Fara-7B: A Local-First Computer-Use Agent You Can Actually Run
Microsoft's Magentic-UI pairs a small-model orchestrator with Fara-7B, a computer-use agent, in a local sandbox — an MIT-licensed stack worth cloning.
Microsoft Agent Framework Makes Tool and File Access Approval-by-Default
Agent Framework Python 1.10.0 and .NET 1.12.0 flip skill and file access to approval-required by default — a breaking change for production MAF agents.
MAF v1 — Prompt engineering (Python + .NET)
Structure prompts around identity, grounding, task rules, role context, and YAML composition so agents stay consistent over time.
MAF v1 — Deployment with Docker and Compose
Package the agent stack with one multi-target Dockerfile, one Compose file, and a dev.sh script with health gates locally.
MAF v1 — E-commerce repo guided tour (Python + .NET)
Every MAF concept from the prior chapters, mapped to the exact file and line where it lives in the live e-commerce repo.
MAF v1 — Python ↔ .NET asymmetries: a porting reference
Compare the six Python and .NET MAF API differences you will hit when porting samples, from constructors to workflow wiring.
MAF v1 — Evaluation framework (Python + .NET)
Build an eval pipeline with golden datasets, scoring, smoke/full modes, and CI gates to catch prompt regressions before release.
MAF v1 — Workflow Visualization (Python + .NET)
Render any workflow as Mermaid (GitHub-friendly) or Graphviz DOT (production runbooks). One line each, deterministic output, dark-mode-safe palette.
MAF v1 — DevUI for agents and workflows (Python)
Run MAF DevUI locally to test prompts, inspect tool calls and OTel spans, and register agents by code or directory discovery.
