Master the five orchestration patterns: Sequential, Concurrent, Handoff, Group Chat, and Magentic. Learn when to use each pattern.
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
The Dawn of .NET 10 and C# 14: A New Era of Performance and Language Innovation Arrives
Introduction: After more than two decades building enterprise applications on the Microsoft stack, I’ve witnessed every major evolution of .NET—from the original Framework through the tumultuous transition to Core, and now to the unified platform that .NET 10 represents. Released on November 11, 2025, this Long-Term Support (LTS) release marks a significant milestone in the […]
Read more →Data Pipelines for LLM Training: Building Production ETL Systems
Building production ETL pipelines for LLM training is complex. After building pipelines processing 100TB+ of data, I’ve learned what works. Here’s the complete guide to building production data pipelines for LLM training. Figure 1: LLM Training Data Pipeline Architecture Why Production ETL Matters for LLM Training LLM training requires massive amounts of clean, processed data: […]
Read more →Workflows: Graph-Based Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Agent Framework – Part 6
Build graph-based workflows connecting multiple agents. Learn executors, edges, conditional routing, and checkpointing for complex business processes.
Read more →Multi-Turn Conversations & Agent Threads in Microsoft Agent Framework – Part 5
Master multi-turn conversations with Agent Threads. Learn context management, persistence patterns, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Read more →Tools & Function Calling in Microsoft Agent Framework – Part 4
Deep dive into AI agent tools and function calling. Learn MCP integration, external API patterns, error handling, and tool chaining in Microsoft Agent Framework.
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