Brian Benz

GitHub - bbenz/javaofficehours20260107: A Spring Boot application demonstrating integration with Azure OpenAI using Spring AI. A Spring Boot application demonstrating integration with Azure OpenAI using Spring AI. - bbenz/javaofficehours20260107

Thanks to all the attendees for joining! Here's the demo code I generated live in our session using #github #Copilot - github.com/bbenz/javaof...

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Join me for Java Office Hours on the Microsoft Foundry Discord and live Q&A📅 Jan 7, 2026 • 9:00 AM PST
Covering the newest GitHub Copilot code-gen + how to use 12k #Microsoft Foundry models.
Join: discord.com/events/11136...

#Java #AI #Azure #LangChain4j #DevTools

Who’s here at #CES this week?

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

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.

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...

Just arrived in #SanFrancisco for #MSIgnite! Any #java nerds here this week? Let’s meet up!

Agentic AI + MCP Server
🧠⚙️🔗 Agentic AI + MCP Server for secure, context-aware automation—DevOps agents, incident analysis, workflow validation. With Moonis Tahir.
📍 Galileo 906 | ⏰ Tue Nov 11 • 10:00–11:00 AM (PST)

#TrimbleDimensions #AgenticAI #MCP #DevOps

Building AI-Driven Construction Plans
🚧🤖📊 Turn scattered schedules, resources, and site updates into a single intelligent view—risk detection + predictive sequencing.
📍 Galileo 906 | ⏰ Tue Nov 11 • 8:30–9:30 AM (PST)

#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!

🚀 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

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.

☕️🤖 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

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!

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...

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.

🚀🧠 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

🙏 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

🚀🧠☕ 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

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...

See you there!

A thumbnail with a dark background and a headshot of Burke Holland that reads "VS Code & Friends Live from Microsoft HQ, Featuring Burke Holland, Cory House, Anastasia Khomochkina, Eleanor Berger, Kent C. Dodds, Scott Tolinski"

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...

Muchacho and his lemongrass #caturday

Muchacho on vacation! #caturday

Screenshot of a GitHub Codespaces VS Code interface showing a README.md file for codespaces-llm repository. The file describes a GitHub Codespaces environment with LLM, Python 3.13, uv and the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension. It has a "Launch Codespace" button. Below shows a terminal tab with the command "llm 'Fun facts about pelicans'" which has generated output listing 5 pelican facts: 1. **Huge Beaks:** about their enormous beaks and throat pouches for scooping fish and water, some over a foot long; 2. **Fishing Technique:** about working together to herd fish into shallow water; 3. **Great Fliers:** about being strong fliers that migrate great distances and soar on thermals; 4. **Buoyant Bodies:** about having air sacs beneath skin and bones making them extra buoyant; 5. **Dive Bombing:** about Brown Pelicans diving dramatically from air into water to catch fish.

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

Muchacho‘s having a great #caturday afternoon

Just hanging out on #caturday

Microsoft and LangChain4j: A Partnership for Secure, Enterprise-Grade Java AI Applications - Microsoft for Java Developers Discover how Microsoft and LangChain4j are empowering Java developers to build secure, scalable AI applications. Learn about OpenAI SDK integration, Azure support, and robust security enhancements in ...

New Blog post - 🤝 @microsoft.com + @langchain4j.dev = secure and scalable #Java #AI including Azure + OpenAI Java SDK integration. Read: devblogs.microsoft.com/java/microso...

#Azure

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 !👇

I don’t care if it’s #caturday put the damn camera down!

GitHub #Copilot Chat is now open source - Check out the source code here! github.com/microsoft/vs...

YouTube video by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Deploy AKS on Azure Cobalt 100 for Cost & Carbon Savings | Full Demo + Repo (Portal)

🔄 And here’s the sequel! Spin up #AKS on Arm-based Cobalt 100 nodes entirely in the Azure Portal. Watch: youtu.be/aJBsyguO4yM Docs/scripts: aka.ms/armonazure #Kubernetes #AKS #Azure #Arm #GreenSoftware

YouTube video by Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Using ARM VMs for AKS (CLI): Azure Kubernetes Service

🚀⚡️💚 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