Today's applications require monitoring, logging, configuration, etc. Each of these concerns can be implemented as a ...

A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private ...

Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

Rockford Lhotka previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session, 'MCP Magic,' and explains why the Model Context Protocol is becoming a key building block for AI agents. In this Q&A, he discusses ...

In a world of microservices development and Docker-based deployments, RESTful web services tend to grab all the headlines. However, there's still a place in modern enterprise architectures for ...

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