Azure Weekly

Issue #524 - 20th July 2025

AI Agents are starting to cross the chasm from ideas to reality. There are two interesting posts from Geert Baeke: Deploying AI Foundry Agents and Azure Container Apps to support an Agent2Agent solution and Deploying a multi-agent solution with MCP and A2A to Azure Container Apps. Alli Parrett shares some useful guidance in Introducing Copilot Memory: A More Productive and Personalized AI for the Way You Work and Leo Visser has written a thoughful post - Why your AI might be biased (and what you can do about it).

Elton Stoneman publishes 10 Essential Claude Code Tips: Boost Your AI Coding Productivity in 2025 - I've been using Claude Code (Max) for the last month and completely agree with Elton's statement that his journey was: mildly sceptical to pleasantly surprised to thoroughly impressed to cannot live without. While I'm working on this edition of Azure Weekly, Claude Code running in a VS Code instance working on an idea I had last night for a new tool. It's currently in a performance improvement feedback loop, writing benchmarks and using the results to re-write the code to run faster and reduce memory allocations. Really awesome stuff.

There have been a number of Microsoft Fabric and OneLake announcements this week: Unified by design: mirroring Azure Databricks Unity Catalog to Microsoft OneLake in Fabric Generally Available, and Accelerating Insights from Unstructured Text with AI Powered OneLake Shortcut Transformations, and User Data Functions now support async functions and pandas DataFrame, Series types, and the third part in the series from James Broome Reading structured data from SharePoint in Synapse Notebooks, and Carmel Eve has published a Introduction to the Medallion Architecture talk.