Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev
Marathon runner, hockey player, beer drinker, chocolate chip cookie lover. Father. Group Manager for CosmosDB DevExp at Microsoft. Born 🇨🇦, Seattle since 2002. he/him
I signed up to run the Terry Fox run for the first time in 30 years. I’ll match donations up to $1,000 at run.terryfox.ca/page/pilchie
Pilchie
In 1980 Terry showed us what courage, compassion and determination look like. Today that example is needed more than ever and I am inspired to join more than 100,000 Terry Foxers this fall who are...
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Just amazed at the lineup of announcements from my team at Microsoft #Build today! Too many to list, check out all the blog posts: devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/ #CosmosDB
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The latest news, updates and technical insights from the Azure Cosmos DB team
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#AzureSDK for #rustlang 🦀 has GA'd: we shipped our initial stable 1.0.0 version! 🎉 In this wave we have support for Storage Blobs and Queues, and Key Vault. Cosmos and Event Hubs are coming soon.
From beta to stable: Announcing the Azure SDK for Rust 🎉🦀
Announcing the stable release of the Azure SDK for Rust. This release includes stable libraries for Core, Identity, Key Vault (Secrets, Keys, Certificates), and Storage (Blobs, Queues).
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Been waiting a long time for this preview to be ready. Very happy to share it with everyone #cosmosdb #azure devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/azu...
Announcing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation - Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Discover Azure Cosmos DB Shell – an open-source CLI with MCP server support for AI agent integration, bash-like commands, and automated database workflows. Now in public preview.
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1. Your coworkers shouldn’t be the first humans to have read what you produce. Vetting the content is on you. 2. If you’re using AI, you have no excuse for the content being lengthy and verbose. Conciseness is a prompt away. (2/2)
Saw Project Hail Mary last night and really enjoyed it. I think they did a good job adapting it. Both ticking and funny.
I read this to the tune of Escape (The Piña Colada Song).
David Pierce@davidpierce.xyz · 6mo agoWe're hiring a Vergecast producer! If you've ever yelled at your phone about how wrong @reckless.bsky.social and I are, if you think Brendan Carr is a dummy, and if you want to help us make this show bigger and better and weirder, you should apply right now job-boards.greenhouse.io/voxmedia/job...
Hey @jp2e.bsky.social any changes to this post www.theverge.com/23393163/bes... in the last couple of months? Would love a thread-based lock that supports reliable auto-unlock. We're an apple + Home Assistant household. Currently have a Yale on the front door, but want something for the side.
Here are the best smart locks you can buy right now
Ditch the keys for a smart door lock.
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How did the Olympic organizers put a Team Canada and a Team USA hockey game in the same timeslot. Really needing to multitask today.
@davidpierce.xyz listening to yesterday’s Vergecast with you mentioning a quest to find a new phone raised a question for me. Is there a workable way to dual phone if I’m not ready to give up my iPhone, but want to dabble in something else?
I’ve joined four meetings from a focus room at the office today. I’ve since found out that in two of them there were other participants sitting in adjacent focus rooms. :(
A little early Christmas present from work. I was due for a machine refresh and a new 15” Surface with a 12core Snapdragon X1E80100 ARM64 CPU, 64GB RAM and 1TB SSD was delivered today. All set up now, and I’m excited to see how the battery holds up through a day in the office when I go back in Jan.
@johntmhiggins.bsky.social what was the arm mount HR monitor you recommended on the Vergecast?
@scalzi.com I saw recently that you wrote a summary of the Old Man’s War series. About to start The Shattering Peace, and now I can’t find it. Can you share a link, and maybe put it on whatever?
Cool blog about how the RecordScanner app uses Azure #CosmosDB's vector search capabilities: devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/rec...
Record Scanner for vinyl collectors cuts costs with Azure Cosmos DB vector search - Azure Cosmos DB Blog
by Artur Drozdz, Founder of Record Scanner (recordscanner.com) If you’re like me, there’s at least one room in your home with an entire cabinet dedicated to your growing vinyl collection. At this poin...
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#rustlang docs are live on Microsoft Learn: aka.ms/rust/docs These expand on #AzureSDK examples with more user scenarios and more to come. While we always want our crate READMEs to be helpful, we also want them to be concise. Of course, there's more information and many doc examples on docs.rs
Azure for Rust developers - Rust on Azure
Get started developing with Rust on Azure using services like Azure Functions, Key Vault, Messaging, Identity, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, and the Azure SDK for Rust.
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I’ve been getting back into lifting a bit lately. I always take my Oura off when I do, but then I don’t get “credit” for it. Any other suggestions? @vicmsong.bsky.social ?
People who are good at photography stuff - I have very few pictures of my mom. One of the best is an iPhone shot from 2017, but it’s backlit. Any tips to help make it better to print?
🧠 Vector Search in 2 Minutes This video explains how AI agents use embeddings + similarity to find relevant info—fast. See how Azure Cosmos DB enables smarter search for AI & analytics. ▶️ msft.it/63320sng7G #VectorSearch #AI #AzureCosmosDB #DevTools #SemanticSearch
Vector Search Explained in 2 Minutes
Ever wonder how AI agents find the information that's most relevant to your conversation? This video breaks down the fundamentals of vector search, the tech that powers modern search for AI. You’ll learn: ⚡ How data like text, images, or audio can be transformed into vectors using embedding models ⚡ How queries are compared in the same vector space ⚡ The role of similarity measures like cosine similarity and Euclidean distance ⚡ How Azure Cosmos DB uses vector search to enable smarter, more intuitive retrieval for AI and analytics Whether you’re building apps that need semantic understanding or exploring hybrid search for richer results, this video gives you a clear foundation for how vector search powers it all. #AzureCosmosDB #VectorSearch #AI
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OMG - almost 2 years after I bought them, I *finally* managed to get my Nanoleaf bulbs to connect to my Home Assistant Sky Connect with Open Thread Border Router. Getting thread credentials synced between iOS and HA has been a PITA.
OH while playing UNO at family game night: “What is the card with the backwards ‘E’?” “Uh, a three?”
Smash burgers can still be shitty burgers and we need to stop pretending they’re some type of elevated bullshit.
After hearing @vicmsong.bsky.social interview the Ladder app CEO on the @theverge.com Vergecast, I’ve been trying it for a week now. Great workouts - kicking things up a notch for me, though not running as much now. #TeamAlpha
🚀 Azure Cosmos DB Fleets is here (preview) New Azure Cosmos DB TV episode! Learn how Fleets simplifies SaaS & multi-tenant scale with pools + fleet analytics. 📺 Mark Brown, Deborah Chen & Praful Johari break it down: msft.it/63322sybFM #AzureCosmosDB #AzureCosmosDBTV
Azure Cosmos DB Fleets - Now in Preview - Ep. 108
Building and managing multi-tenant or SaaS applications with Azure Cosmos DB just got easier. In this session, host Mark Brown is joined by Microsoft’s Deborah Chen and Praful Johari to explore Azure Cosmos DB Fleets, now in preview. Learn how fleets tackle common challenges like tenant isolation, managing thousands of RU/s, and reducing the cost of provisioning dedicated capacity for inactive tenants. Discover how pools and fleet analytics simplify capacity management and improve observability at scale. Whether you’re a SaaS provider or building a multi-tenant application, this session will show you how fleets can reduce operational complexity while maintaining performance and security. #AzureCosmosDB #SaaS Useful Links: • Azure Cosmos DB fleets overview (preview) - https://msft.it/63320sybF6 • Call for Speakers for Azure Cosmos DB TV - https://msft.it/63322sybF8 • Azure Cosmos DB TV - https://msft.it/63324sybFE • Subscribe to Azure Cosmos DB on YouTube - https://msft.it/63326sybFG • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on X - https://msft.it/63328sybFy • Follow Azure Cosmos DB on LinkedIn - https://msft.it/63320sybFK
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