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Microsoft has moved the Azure SDK for Rust out of beta and into general availability, giving Rust developers a stable, production-ready way to connect to core Azure services. The release covers Core, Identity, Key Vault (Secrets, Keys, and Certificates), and Storage (Blobs and Queues), built around the same design patterns already used in the .NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, and C++ SDKs.The announcement came as part of Microsoft’s May 2026 Azure SDK release, and was detailed separately in a post from Ronnie Geraghty, product manager for the Azure SDK. He framed the milestone with a simple scenario: a Rust service…

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In Omdia’s 2026 software supply chain security report, 73% of organizations that generate SBOMs say they enable more efficient vulnerability mitigation, yet 86% still find the generation process challenging. That gap between recognized value and operational difficulty is where most teams are stuck. For teams building and securing containerized applications, understanding what an SBOM is, and how to make it useful, is no longer optional. This guide covers what SBOMs contain, why they matter for software supply chain security, how standard formats and tooling work, and where the industry is headed with regulations and enforcement. Key takeaways An SBOM is…

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A year ago, if you mentioned MCP to a DevOps engineer, you’d probably get a blank stare. That’s changing and fast.Engineers used to spend their days debating Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and cloud. Now, new topics keep cropping up: AI agents, smarter integrations, autonomous workflows, and this thing called Model Context Protocol, or MCP.At first, MCP just sounds like another technical spec, nothing revolutionary. The industry’s seen plenty of those. They make a little noise, folks get excited, then everyone moves on.But MCP feels like it’s actually landing.Why? The game with AI isn’t just about making systems that generate convincing text…

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Most Python novices will have heard about modules like math, random, json, datetime, os, and probably a few more. And yet, there is much more within Python’s standard library that can help write code more cleanly and safely. The importance of the “standard library” is that these modules are part of Python itself. This means that the student does not have to install a new package or care about what happens to the package in the next term, not to mention dealing with an external license agreement. According to the official Python documentation, the standard library consists of the library…

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DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The ten job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…

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