Kevin Pilch

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 - 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

🚀 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

Costco shopping list: toilet paper.
Costco receipt: $306.

Make that six days!

New #NYTGames crossword streak. All five weekdays this week with no cheats.

Yeah, must be. My kid is really into the and got me a node for Father’s Day.

Arrived in NYC as part of our Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal/Boston/NYC/DC road trip and the location based ads here in Manhattan are out of control! So many ads for things to do here it’s all I see.

Bad managers track effort. Good managers track impact.

What people talk about wanting RTO?

Someone just liked a comment I left on a group photo on Facebook *FOURTEEN YEARS AGO*. 14! Who does that?

New paper about #Azure #CosmosDB Vector search for #vldb posted: aka.ms/CosmosDB/Vec....

App notification from Kindle app that says: New in the app: Buy books with “Get book”

It begins - easy links to buy things outside of apps. @reckless.bsky.social @davidpierce.xyz

#azurecosmosdb | Kirill Gavrylyuk I had a pleasure hosting Kunal Mukerjee from Docusign at our #AzureCosmosDB Conference last Tuesday. Docusign Intelligent Agreements is a canonical example of what AI can do to solve world's trill...

Docusign using #Azure #CosmosDB for semantic search (vector and full-text): www.linkedin.com/posts/kirill...

Azure Cosmos DB with DiskANN Part 2: Scaling to 1 Billion Vectors with Explore the potential of a vector database. Learn to scale vector datasets in Azure Cosmos DB for efficient performance.

New blog post about scaling vector search to a billion vectors with #Azure #CosmosDB - devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/azu...

Introducing the Azure MCP Server Announcing the Public Preview of the Azure MCP Server, bringing the power of Azure to your AI agents. The Azure MCP Server allows AI agents to take advantage of Azure resources for key workflows such ...

Public preview of #Azure #MCP Server released! devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/in...

Elections Canada envelope.

I voted!

Interesting. Instagram now goes into a loop prompting me to allow targeting from ad partners. If I opt out and confirm, it just pops the modal prompt back up. No more insta for me I guess.

I updated to iOS 18.4 last night and now my phone vibrates at random times with no other sign of feedback. Help?

Can’t believe @rjcc.bsky.social, @davidpierce.xyz and @reckless.bsky.social didn’t put together that the $10,000 TV bundle from Samsung is there to populate the bar when you buy it. @theverge.com

Well actually: Typically maps at the scale of countries use Lambert conformal conic projections instead of Mercator projections. They still have distortion, but it’s not as bad as Mercators at the poles.

I would love to go case free, but the camera bump bugs me. I wish it was uniform across the top of the phone instead of on one side.

Guinness chocolate cake on cake stand.

Photo evidence of part of it. Recipes courtesy of @nytimes. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1875...

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020...

Tonight's dinner includes** 2 pints* of Guinness.

* Not including any that I consumed directly.
** Ok, they were short (aka US) pints.

#StPatricksDay

Cooking a French recipe and I’m reminded why French food is so good. (It’s the butter and heavy cream)

Implementing Chat History for AI Applications Using Azure Cosmos DB Go SDK - Azure Cosmos DB Blog Learn how to build a chat history implementation using Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Go SDK and langchaingo, with a sample chatbot app, integration tests, and best practices.

devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/imp... #Azure #CosmosDB

Feeling pretty good today. Been a while since I got a good sleep and managed a run, shower, and breakfast before my first meeting of the day.

And the crate for the Azure Cosmos DB SDK is live now! devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/ann... #cosmosdb #rust #azure

Yeah, I have to drive from Mill Creek down to Kent and back later tonight. Not looking forward to it.

Obligatory thunder in Seattle post #wawx