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Brian Benz
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Microsoft AI Advocate. Certified stunt coder
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Just arrived in #SanFrancisco for #MSIgnite! Any #java nerds here this week? Let’s meet up!
Check out my Theater session today at #MSIgnite
#equinix booth 1234 - I'll be #vibecoding Infrastructure as code that connects #azure #ExpressRoute + #Equinix Fabric, powered by #Terraform & @github #Copilot.
Nov 18 | 5:00 PM | Booth #1234
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thanks for joining the #MSIgnite pre-day lab - #AI-Ready Apps: Containerize and Modernize with #Azure !  Try it at home!  you can find the repo here  - aka.ms/ignite25-PRE...
GitHub - microsoft/ignite25-PREL15-ai-ready-apps-containerize-and-modernize-with-azure
Contribute to microsoft/ignite25-PREL15-ai-ready-apps-containerize-and-modernize-with-azure development by creating an account on GitHub.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Just arrived in #SanFrancisco for #MSIgnite! Any #java nerds here this week? Let’s meet up!
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
🚀 Join me at Trimble Dimensions tomorrow—two back-to-back talks on AI for construction planning and enterprise automation. Full event info: www.trimble.com/en/our-compa...

#TrimbleDimensions #Azure #AI #Construction
2025 Trimble Dimensions User Conference: Unlock Innovation
Elevate your expertise at Dimensions 2025 in Las Vegas, Nov 10-12. Explore industry trends, master advanced techniques and connect with experts. Register now!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
☕️🤖 New Java & AI for Beginners series: concise intros to RAG, MCP, LangChain4j, Azure services, and container options—designed for working Java devs.
Blog: devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-an...

Playlist: aka.ms/java-ai-begi...

#Java #AI #Beginners #DevTools #OpenSource
Java and AI for Beginners: a practical video series for Java - Microsoft for Java Developers
Learn core GenAI concepts for Java: RAG, MCP, LangChain4j, Azure integrations, and containers. Start with short, practical videos.
devblogs.microsoft.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Brian Benz
OpenAI Codex is now integrated directly in VS Code through the new Agent Sessions view - and can be powered by your GitHub Copilot subscription.

Try it out now with VS Code Insiders and a Copilot Pro+ subscription. Happy coding!
October 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Brian Benz
Still running Spring apps on SQL? 👀

See how to evolve to Azure #CosmosDB with #GitHubCopilot as your migration buddy.

🧠 Live demo + real refactoring examples!
🗓️ Oct 21 | 16:30 UTC (9:30am PST)

🔗 developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reacto...
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚀🧠 Drasi + GQL = continuous queries for the graph era. Mark Russinovich details how the first new international DB language since SQL lands in change-driven systems. Read: opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/10...
#Drasi #GQL #GraphDatabases #OpenSource
opensource.microsoft.com
Drasi at one year: now with GQL for change-driven solutions
Drasi’s first year brings GQL support and community growth, empowering developers to build event-driven apps. Learn more.
opensource.microsoft.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🙏 Thanks for coming to From CRUD to Cognitive at JCON USA! Appreciate all the great questions. Reference materials (patterns, links, code) are here: aka.ms/CRUDtoCognit...
☕️🤖🚀
#JCONUSA #Java #GenAI #OpenSource #RAG
October 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🚀🧠☕ From CRUD to Cognitive—without a rewrite. I’m teaming up with Ed Burns at JCON USA (IBM TechXchange) to show RAG, form auto-fillers, chatbots & AI triggers using open-source models/frameworks. Oct 6, 6–6:30pm EDT
👉 usa.jcon.one

#JCONUSA #Java #GenAI #RAG #OpenSource
October 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by Brian Benz
Rolling out to VS Code now: Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's most advanced model for coding.

Let us know what you think!
github.blog/changelog/20...
September 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
See you there!
This Wednesday, join us for a special VS Code livestream, straight from Microsoft HQ!

Burke Holland will be joined by an amazing guest lineup: Cory House, Anastasia Khomochkina, Eleanor Berger, Kent C. Dodds, and Scott Tolinski 🔥

You don't want to miss this 🔗 youtube.com/live/4Q9TDw2...
September 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Reposted by Brian Benz
This Wednesday, join us for a special VS Code livestream, straight from Microsoft HQ!

Burke Holland will be joined by an amazing guest lineup: Cory House, Anastasia Khomochkina, Eleanor Berger, Kent C. Dodds, and Scott Tolinski 🔥

You don't want to miss this 🔗 youtube.com/live/4Q9TDw2...
September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Muchacho and his lemongrass #caturday
August 31, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Muchacho on vacation! #caturday
August 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Brian Benz
GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs

... here it's running my LLM CLI utility
August 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Muchacho‘s having a great #caturday afternoon
July 26, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Just hanging out on #caturday
July 19, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Model Context Protocol is essential knowledge for every AI developer that wants to enable modular, composable model-based apps

Don’t miss this session - July 15th at 09:00 PT !👇
Learn how to build an MCP Server and an MCP Client in #Java.

Join me & @sandraahlgrimm.bsky.social this July 15th at 09:00 PT to get a glimpse of #MCP and demos that (hopefully!) will work fine, and give you a lift on building your own!

Hit "Notify me" on YouTube!

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Let's Learn MCP: Java
YouTube video by Visual Studio Code
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July 15, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I don’t care if it’s #caturday put the damn camera down!
July 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
GitHub #Copilot Chat is now open source - Check out the source code here! github.com/microsoft/vs...
July 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
🚀⚡️💚 Cutting cloud costs & carbon? Check my new walkthrough of Azure @kubernetes.io service on Arm-powered Cobalt 100 VMs - full demo + step-by-step guide. Video: youtu.be/B9JzkHTJuJI Docs 👉 aka.ms/armonazure #Kubernetes #AKS #Azure #Arm #GreenSoftware
Using ARM VMs for AKS (CLI): Azure Kubernetes Service
YouTube video by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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June 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🚀🤖☁️ Copilot for Azure is generally available—with Agent Mode! Supports VS Code, lets Copilot read your Azure resources & run full infra workflows, backed by enterprise security. Check out aka.ms/GitHubCopilo... #Azure #GitHubCopilot #AI #DevOps #VSCode
Announcing General Availability of GitHub Copilot for Azure—Now with Agent Mode | All things Azure
Unlocking a New DevOps Era GitHub Copilot for Azure was first introduced at Ignite 2024 as a public preview, empowering developers, IT operators, and
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June 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚀✨🔥 Faster, cheaper cloud-native? Join my live demo at Microsoft Build: “Cobalt 100 on Arm” w/ Amar Dhamdhere, Bhumik Patel & Richard Murillo. May 21 12:30 PT (Seattle/online). RSVP: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio... #Arm #Azure #cloudnative #MSBuild
Unleashing price-performance: Cobalt 100 and the future of cloud-native on Arm
Discover how Arm and Microsoft are delivering breakthrough price-performance with Cobalt 100 VMs on Azure. Learn about the growing Arm ecosystem, Microsoft's internal workload deployments, and see liv...
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May 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM