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Sandboxing AI agents with Microsoft Execution Containers
We built a sandbox by hand for the AI agent that repairs our website. Microsoft Execution Containers declare that boundary as a policy. What we'd move onto it.
TechFabricReadSkillFS: governing agent skills with a file system
Alibaba Cloud's SkillFS controls which skills an AI agent can load. What our own writing agent's two-day stall taught us about the same problem.
TechFabricReadBC29: multiple excise duties per item in Business Central
BC29 lets one Business Central item carry several excise duties. What it changes for the item records, period close and reporting in the systems we build.
TechFabricReadWhat Databricks' Funke changes for HL7v2 pipelines
Funke, announced by Databricks on 8 October, parses HL7v2 into Unity Catalog intact. What it changes for clinical pipelines, and what it leaves alone.
TechFabricReadReplit on Databricks: governed apps with Lakebase Postgres
Replit Agent now deploys apps inside Databricks with a Lakebase database behind each. What we'd decide before anyone prompts an internal tool into existence.
TechFabricReadDatabricks bought Row Zero: spreadsheets on live data
Databricks bought Row Zero, a spreadsheet that reads the lakehouse live. What it changes for month-end exports out of Business Central, and what hasn't shipped.
TechFabricReadDatabricks Lakebase: managed Postgres next to your lakehouse
When an app's database and the lakehouse disagree, so do the reports. What we measured building on Databricks Lakebase, and which databases we'd move first.
TechFabricReadBC29 keeps DEV extensions installed through sandbox updates
BC29 keeps extensions published from VS Code installed when a sandbox updates. What that changes for UAT on the Business Central systems we extend.
TechFabricReadBusiness Central BC29: turning indexes on and off from AL
Each Business Central index slows every write to its table, in every company. BC29 lets AL code switch indexes per company. How we would use it, and where not.
TechFabricReadLakebase branches for test runs, previews and coding agents
A shared test database lets one change break another and holds up releases. How we give each test run its own Lakebase copy, and how we'd do it for AI agents.
TechFabricReadGPT-6: choosing Astra, Sol or Luna and setting effort
GPT-6's three models and its effort setting decide most of what an AI workload costs. How we'd route work across Astra, Sol and Luna, and run it on Databricks.
TechFabricReadMeta's ads MCP server on Databricks: what it changes
Meta's ads MCP server is in Databricks Marketplace. What it lets an agent do, how Unity Gateway and Meta rules fence it, and where it does not fit.
TechFabricReadBusiness Central MCP server: query data with no API page
Business Central agents could only read a few standard tables without custom development. Version 29.0 lets them query the rest. How it works, where it stops.
TechFabricReadDynamics NAV support ends in January 2028
Microsoft's extended support for Dynamics NAV 2018 ends on 12 January 2028. What moving to Business Central involves, and why the warehouse floor sets the size.
TechFabricReadProve It, a winner in Databricks' Genie-Powered App Challenge
Prove It, by TechFabric engineer Ivan Vydrin, won in the Creativity & Originality track of Databricks' global Genie-Powered App Challenge, judged by Databricks.
TechFabricReadGovernance You Can Actually Ship
AI governance fails when it lives in documents instead of infrastructure. Compliance comes from systems that enforce the rules while the model is running.
TechFabricReadThe Agent That Deleted Production
Enterprise software fails when IT mandates tools people do not want. Adoption comes from pull, and the same rule now applies to agents.
TechFabricReadThe Most Expensive Software Nobody Uses
Companies spend millions on enterprise AI that employees barely touch while shadow AI spreads. The problem is the tools, not the people ignoring them.
TechFabricReadThe Forward-Deployed Playbook
AI changed build versus buy. Now it is changing delivery. Small teams of senior engineers embedded in your operations, shipping in weeks rather than months.
TechFabricReadWhat If Agile Was the Detour?
Agile answered expensive execution, not planning. As AI collapses build time, deep upfront specification plus fast execution ships in weeks.
TechFabricReadAgentic Systems Without the Chaos: Building AI That Stays on the Rails
The engineering patterns that keep an autonomous system reliable in production. Guardrails, observability, circuit breakers, and where each one belongs.
TechFabricReadThe build vs. buy decision for enterprise AI
Faster models and larger context windows make a custom AI build viable in weeks, and data sovereignty exposes vendor limits. When to buy, build, or do both.
TechFabricReadHow to reach a new market without rebuilding your core platform
When onboarding smaller customers pulls engineers off the roadmap, build a self-serve way in and leave the core platform alone. How to find where the cost sits.
TechFabricReadWhat Teams Get Wrong About Outages and Operational Risk
Cloudflare, AWS and Azure all went down in late 2025. What their postmortems show, and the restore drills that decide how long your own outage lasts.
TechFabricReadUsing Application Insights as a Sink for logging in ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core has very extensible logging interface. I provides an ILogger interface along with few default implementations that can be used to log data.
TechFabricReadOff-the-shelf vs. custom software for a CRM
Off-the-shelf or custom CRM? Buy when your sales process is standard. Build when the workflow is your product. Most firms do best buying and extending.
TechFabricReadDynamics 365 CRM: Transforming Your Sales Quote Process
The Dynamics 365 quote process state by state, with the product catalog it needs. Templates and PDFs, approvals in Power Automate, and quote to order.
TechFabricReadTemporal: Airlines Booking Demo Application
Weighing Temporal for workflows that must survive failures in production? What our engineers learned modelling ticket purchases, returns and delayed flights.
TechFabricReadImproving data visibility: reporting, warehouses and lineage
How organizations improve data visibility. Report off the database, add a read replica or build a warehouse, then use lineage to see how data changed.
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