.NET
2025-12-30
A year-end roundup of the most-read .NET blog posts published in 2025, highlighting coverage of .NET 10, AI in .NET, performance improvements, and developer tooling, with links back to the original .NET Blog.
GitHub
2025-12-22
The GitHub Actions workflows page now handles very large workflows (more than 300 jobs) by using lazy loading for smoother performance, and it also adds the ability to filter jobs to help navigate large workflows.
2025-12-08
The article announces networking improvements in .NET 10, highlighting updates across HTTP, WebSockets, security, and related areas to enhance performance, reliability, and the developer experience.
Azure Updates
2025-11-24
Azure Load Testing (part of Azure App Testing) is now generally available in the Italy North region, allowing customers there to run high-scale load tests and simulations to find performance bottlenecks.
2025-11-18
Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL is a new managed PostgreSQL offering now in private preview that emphasizes high performance, large autoscaling storage (up to 128 TB), and rapid compute scalability (up to 3,072 vCores), claiming up to 3× faster performance than open-source PostgreSQL.
Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL now generally available: vector indexing performance improvements deliver faster vector inserts and index builds, reducing end-to-end ingestion and indexing times for large AI workloads through algorithmic enhancements.
Azure Cosmos DB now generally available: priority-based execution can be enabled so high-priority requests are favored during contention, with low-priority requests throttled first to allow critical operations to proceed on a best-effort basis.
Microsoft announced the Generally Available Next‑gen General Purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance, delivering major performance improvements along with increased compute flexibility while preserving cost advantages and the simplicity of a fully managed PaaS.
Slow start is now generally available for Application Gateway for Containers. The load balancing algorithm gradually increases traffic to newly created pods over a configurable window to improve stability and performance during backend scale‑up.
Public preview of Index Advisor integrated into the DocumentDB for VS Code extension. It helps you view and debug database performance and uses natural-language recommendations to suggest optimal indexing and best practices for MongoDB workloads.
Azure DocumentDB public preview introduces high-performance storage that enables larger, faster workloads on fewer nodes with much higher capacity, IOPS and throughput per physical shard.
Microsoft has opened a private preview for performance enhancements in the latest Azure Boost architecture that improve remote storage throughput and network bandwidth. Azure Boost offloads virtualization functions (networking, storage, host management) and these updates aim to boost I/O and network performance for VMs and cloud services.