GitHub Copilot Customization Explained for Beginners: Instructions, Prompt Files, Skills, Agents, and Hooks Introduction If you've recently started using GitHub Copilot, you've probably come across terms like Instructions , Prompt Files , Skills , Agents , and Hooks . At first glance, they all seem to do the same thing—they tell Copilot what to do. So why does GitHub have five different customization features? The answer is simple: each feature solves a different problem. Think of GitHub Copilot as a new developer joining your team. On their first day, you don't just hand them code. You explain your coding standards, give them reusable templates, teach them specialized knowledge, assign them a role, and automate repetitive tasks. That's exactly how GitHub Copilot customization works. In this article, you'll learn what each feature does, when to use it, and how they all work together. By the end, you'll know which feature to start with and which ones can wait un...
Posts
Azure Cosmos DB Continuous backup with point in time restore
In Microsoft Ignite (March) 2021 there were several new announcements made by different product teams (e.g. Data, AI, etc.) within Azure. As part of today's blog post, I am going to cover one such announcement made by the CosmosDB team - Continuous backup with the point in time restore capability which is in public preview now. Prior to this new feature announcement now you might be wondering what was the option for CosmosDB backup? Until this new announcement made the option we had was Periodic backup mode where the backup is taken at a periodic interval which will be defined by the end-user. The minimum backup interval can't be less than one hour. Unfortunately, with Periodic back up you can’t access the backup by yourself. You’d need to raise a support request/ticket with the Microsoft team, who would then perform the backup for you. Another option was implementing custom implementation by yourself which comes with Time, Cost, and Effort. By using Continuous b...
Customer-Managed Keys for Azure CosmosDB & Container Registry
In May 2020, as part of Microsoft Build conference few key announcements were made for Microsoft Azure service. In this blog post, I will be covering updates related to Customer-managed keys which were made GA for Azure service - CosmosDB and Azure Container Registry. What is Customer-managed key? By default various resource provider in Azure implement encryption at Rest. Implementation of this encryption at Rest by default will be using Service-Managed keys which Microsoft manages internally. But in few scenarios users/customers want to control this keys that's where customer-managed key comes into picture. Two Azure service which we are talking in this post now have this capability (GA). Note : You must store customer-managed keys in Azure Key Vault Customer-managed key for CosmosDB Customer-managed keys enables users to take total control over the keys used by Azure Cosmos DB to encrypt their data at rest. With CosmosDB your data is always encrypted with service-managed-k...