Kevin Pilch

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

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Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

And now 1.0 is out! Come get it! #CosmosDB

Kevin Pilch@pilchie.dev

Our 1.0-beta.1 release of the Rust SDK for Azure Cosmos DB is out. We're considering this a release candidate for a 1.0 release coming soon - give it a spin and let us know if you run into any issues. #CosmosDB crates.io/crates/azure...

crates.iocrates.io: Rust Package Registrycrates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

Congrats @heaths.dev and everyone on the team.

Heath Stewart@heaths.dev

#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.

devblogs.microsoft.comFrom 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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Heath Stewart
@heaths.dev

#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.

devblogs.microsoft.comFrom 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).
Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

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...

devblogs.microsoft.comAnnouncing the Public Preview of Azure Cosmos DB Shell: Open-Source Power Meets AI-Driven Database Automation - Azure Cosmos DB BlogDiscover 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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Dare Obasanjo
@carnage4life.bsky.social

Replying to @carnage4life.bsky.social

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)

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

That was supposed to be touching, not ticking.

Kevin Pilch@pilchie.dev

Saw Project Hail Mary last night and really enjoyed it. I think they did a good job adapting it. Both ticking and funny.

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

Saw Project Hail Mary last night and really enjoyed it. I think they did a good job adapting it. Both ticking and funny.

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

How did the Olympic organizers put a Team Canada and a Team USA hockey game in the same timeslot. Really needing to multitask today.

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

@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?

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

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. :(

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

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.

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

@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?

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Heath Stewart
@heaths.dev

#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

aka.msAzure for Rust developers - Rust on AzureGet 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.
Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

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?

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Azure Cosmos DB
@azurecosmosdb.com

🧠 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

msft.itVector Search Explained in 2 MinutesEver 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
Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

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.

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Azure Cosmos DB
@azurecosmosdb.com

🚀 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

msft.itAzure Cosmos DB Fleets - Now in Preview - Ep. 108Building 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
Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

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.

Kevin Pilch
@pilchie.dev

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.