From commit to cloud: Powering what’s next for PostgreSQL

By Dustin Ward

PostgreSQL has become foundational to how modern applications are built. It powers everything from early‑stage startups to some of the most demanding production systems in the world. Its longevity isn’t accidental, it’s the result of decades of engineering discipline, community collaboration, and a relentless focus on correctness and extensibility. As application architectures evolve, and as…

Advancing enterprise AI: New SAP on Azure announcements from SAP Sapphire 2026

By Dustin Ward

In this article AI is reshaping how enterprises operate, make decisions, and innovate at scale Frontier innovation for ERP systems Your agentic intelligence Putting enterprise AI into production Advancing a new era of AI collaboration Powering AI with a unified data foundation Microsoft and SAP expand partnership to deliver trusted sovereign cloud solutions Expanding platform…

How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs

By Dustin Ward

For early-stage open-source projects, the “Getting started” guide is often the first real interaction a developer has with the project. If a command fails, an output doesn’t match, or a step is unclear, most users won’t file a bug report—they will just move on. Drasi, a CNCF sandbox project that detects changes in your data…

FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform

By Dustin Ward

In this article Introducing the Database Hub in Microsoft Fabric Getting your data estate ready for AI with Fabric Unifying your data estate with Microsoft OneLake Processing and harmonizing data with Fabric analytics Creating semantic meaning with Fabric IQ Empowering agents to act with Fabric data and operations agents Building mission-critical applications with developer experiences…

Azure reliability, resiliency, and recoverability: Build continuity by design

By Dustin Ward

Modern cloud systems are expected to deliver more than uptime. Customers expect consistent performance, the ability to withstand disruption, and confidence that recovery is predictable and intentional. In Azure, these expectations map the three distinct concepts: reliability, resiliency, and recoverability. Explore technical methodologies with Azure Essentials Reliability describes the degree to which a service or workload…

Agentic cloud operations: A new way to run the cloud

By Dustin Ward

Cloud operations have reached an inflection point. For more than a decade, the industry has focused on scale—more infrastructure, more data, more services, more dashboards to build and manage both infrastructure and applications. While today’s cloud delivers extraordinary flexibility, the rapid growth of modern applications and AI workloads has introduced levels of scale and complexity…