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Azure Copilot: An AI assistant for Azure ops and troubleshooting
Microsoft has added new skills to its LLM-powered Copilot in Azure and opened up access to everyone.
.NET Aspire cloud development stack launches
Microsoft's new cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications unites tools, templates, and NuGet packages and includes an App Host for orchestration within the app model.
Microsoft Fabric adds real-time intelligence, workload development kit
Fabric updates announced at Build 2024 also include Snowflake and Databricks integrations and the general availability of Copilot for Power BI.
Microsoft Azure AI gains new LLMs, governance features
At Build 2024 Microsoft also announced that the Azure AI Studio toolkit for building generative AI applications is generally available.
How to improve cloud-based generative AI performance
The problems can be hard to find but easy to solve. With a proactive approach and best practices, you can avoid unhappy users and a damaged business reputation.
12 principles for improving devsecops
SaaS organizations lead the pack when it comes to application reliability, scalability, security, and customer satisfaction. Here are 12 principles devsecops leaders can adopt from SaaS.
Is generative AI bringing back private clouds?
Many enterprises are dusting off the private cloud strategies that lost out to the allure of the public cloud. Is this the right move?
Designing and developing APIs with TypeSpec
Microsoft’s Concise API Design Language has a new name and a larger role to play in building REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, and other services.
Kora: A cloud-native redesign of the Apache Kafka engine
Five key innovations that increased the performance, availability, and cost-efficiency of the engine at the heart of Confluent’s managed Apache Kafka service.
Need GPUs? Take a look at microclouds
There’s definitely more uncertainty in going with a microcloud provider, but choosing a smaller company for your GPU services may pay off big in the end.
Grafana: Shining a light into Kubernetes clusters
Grafana creator Torkel Ödegaard traces the open-source project’s journey to help developers visualize what’s going on inside distributed cloud-native infrastructure.
Red Hat extends Lightspeed AI to Linux, OpenShift
Lightspeed will apply generative AI toward automating the operation of OpenShift clusters and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
Cloud environments beyond the Big Three
The idea of decentralizing cloud computing has been overshadowed by AI, but frustration with high cloud prices has boosted interest in other options.
Protecting LLM applications with Azure AI Content Safety
New tools for filtering malicious prompts, detecting ungrounded outputs, and evaluating the safety of models will make generative AI safer to use.
Red Hat’s Podman AI Lab supports developer adoption of genAI
The Podman Desktop extension features sample apps and a developer playground for exploring LLM use cases.
What is Istio? The Kubernetes service mesh explained
Here's what you need to know about Istio, Google's open source service mesh platform for managing data sharing between microservices in a network.
Does cloud security have a bad reputation?
It seems to be fair game now to label cloud security as risky even though your data is likely safer there than on premises.
'Architecture by conference' is a really bad idea
Using the generic architecture you saw at a conference for your company's unique business needs is a surefire way to waste money and time.