Luke Murray

Luke Murray

@luke.geek.nz

Microsoft Azure MVP 🌐 | MS Learn & Startup Advocate 📘 | Patterns & Practices & Cloud Native 🤖 | Coffee-Driven ☕️ My views are my own. He/Him. https://luke.geek.nz/

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Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

Definitely worth a read and subscribe. Supply chain has always been an issue, but it's definitely an interesting time. Its a good reminder, even if you aren't using AI, the people across the fence will be.

Will Velida 🇺🇦@willvelida.com

New edition of Last Week in Agent Security! It wasn't just PHP causing headaches. We also had agents using Cairn and ARTEX causing havoc, hackers hunting for LLM endpoints, MCP servers, and AI Gateways, and more LiteLLM, OpenCode and Meta problems: www.willvelida.com/posts/last-w...

willvelida.comLast week in Agent Security Update 4: Cairn’t Touch ThisWhat a fucking week…. If you’ve been living under a rock this week, two critical RCE vulnerabilities were found in PHP, collectively known as PHP2Shell. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attac...
Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

[Share] Microsoft + Premier League Inside the Game: Developer Hackathon Registration deadline: October 20, 2026, 12:00 PM Pacific Time Hacking period: October 6–October 27, 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific Time #hackathon #mslearn #mvpbuzz #premierleague

events.microsoft.comMicrosoft + Premier LeagueMicrosoft and the Premier League invite developers worldwide to join Inside the Game: Developer Hackathon and build AI-powered solutions that transform synthetic, football-realistic data into explainable match intelligence, real-time narratives, and automated match recaps for studio, broadcast, or streaming scenarios.
Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

The Microsoft Global Agent‑a‑thon is a hands‑on, build‑along event where participants don’t just learn about AI agents – they actually build one, with live expert and AI support throughout the pre-event immersion and live build day.

Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

If you’re curious about building AI agents – from first experiments to enterprise‑grade scenarios – this is a great place to start. #MSAgentathon #AgentBuilder #CopilotStudio #MicrosoftFoundry

Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

🔔 Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager + Resiliency Agent 🟢 Start resilient: guidance + Bicep 🔵 Get resilient: assess + remediate 🟣 Stay resilient: detect drift + prove recovery IRM is in public preview; Agent rollout completes Aug 18.

learn.microsoft.comInfrastructure Resiliency Manager overview - AzureLearn about Infrastructure Resiliency Manager in Resiliency in Azure and how to view resiliency posture across your resources and service groups at scale.
Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

I completely forgot I had this! Found while cleaning the cupboards. Microsoft Ignite bag, from NZ 2016! My one and only ignite, fond memories of it, and never thought years later I would be part of the MVP ecosystem! #mvpbuzz #msignitenz

Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

When you use Markdown so much you start typing Markdown into Word documents automatically, without thinking! _(AUTOPILOT!)_

Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

Building Execution Ledger - Durable Workflow Orchestration in Rust on Azure Container Apps Execution Ledger is an open-source durable workflow orchestrator I built in Rust on Azure Container Apps. #rust #aca #mvpbuzz #drasi #azure

luke.geek.nzBuilding Execution Ledger - Durable Workflow Orchestration in Rust on Azure Container Apps | luke.geek.nzLearn how I built Execution Ledger, a durable workflow orchestrator in Rust running on Azure Container Apps with step-level replay, idempotency, compensation, KEDA autoscaling, and managed identity.
Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

Avoiding Reasoning Model Failures with Microsoft Foundry Swapping only the deployment name is not a safe change for reasoning-tier models. Even with the same endpoint and SDK, reasoning deployments can fail in at least four different ways.

luke.geek.nzAvoiding Reasoning Model Failures with Microsoft Foundry | luke.geek.nzLearn four ways reasoning-tier models can break Azure OpenAI integrations and how to fix API versioning, params, token budgets, and reasoning_effort.
Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

Nastiest bug of the month: AppConfigurationClient configured with trim_prefixes while every reader queried fully-namespaced keys. No errors - every single config read just silently returned the default. Config mismatches like this fail quiet. Log your resolved values.

Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

I got a weird look when I told someone last week, I was refactoring something to RUST! Now I need to actually learn it!! Time to sleeves up, thanks @willvelida.com! rustup time!

Will Velida 🇺🇦@willvelida.com

I've created a free course for learning @rust-lang.org on my YouTube channel. If you want to learn how #Rust works, check it out! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.comLearn Rust from Scratch (Beginner Course with Projects) - YouTubeA free, beginner-friendly course that teaches the Rust programming language from the ground up. Across this playlist you go from installing Rust to writing c...
Luke Murray
@luke.geek.nz

Reasoning-tier gpt-5 models (gpt-5, 5.1, 5.5, o1, o3-mini) reject temperature and most sampling params outright. gpt-5-chat still accepts it though. Make sampling params optional with drop-and-retry instead of hardcoding them.