Eurasian Blue Tit
What have I got sitting on my branch now?!

What have I got sitting on my branch now?!

With the Microsoft Agent Framework you can create AI Agents on my favorite programming language .NET but also in Python. The SDK provide various types of agents with, off-course, the out-of-the-box support for Azure AI Foundry. In the successor Symantic Kernel there was a specific agent type for Amazon Bedrock’s Agent service. But in the new Microsoft Agent Framework, this specific agent type is not yet available.
The Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen is a beautiful nature reserve in the Netherlands. It is home to a variety of wildlife, including fallow deers. In October 2025, I had the opportunity to visit this stunning location and capture some amazing photographs of the landscape and its inhabitants.

Today I was working on a integration to process message from an AWS Simple Queueing Services (SQS) Queue to a backend services. The specifics of this backend services doesn’t really matter for this post, the only thing relevant is that it using the old-school Windows Communication Framework (WCF). With a custom .NET application written in the beloved C# language, we can communicate with the backend.
Birds
Rome
Apenheul, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
2024 and 2025 visits
Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen