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Microsoft Enhances Azure Learning with Learn Rooms
Microsoft recently announced a new offering for learning Azure with Learn Rooms, a part of the Microsoft Learn community designed to allow learners to connect with other learners and technical experts with similar interests in Azure.
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Azure Previews ND H100 V5 Virtual Machines to Accelerate Generative AI
Azure recently announced the preview of the ND H100 v5, virtual machines that integrate the latest Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and support Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. According to Microsoft, the new option will offer AI developers improved performance and scaling across thousands of GPUs.
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Microsoft Showcases Reliable Web App Patterns for Resilient Cloud Applications
Microsoft has shared the source code and the documentation for the Reliable Web App pattern, a set of best practices that help on-premise web application developers create secure, reliable and cost-optimised cloud applications in Azure with minimal changes.
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Microsoft Previews Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore Service
Microsoft recently announced the preview of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, a fully-managed MongoDB-compatible database service that provides developers with a familiar architecture for building modern applications with native Azure integrations and a low total cost of ownership.
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Cloud Provider Sustainability: the Need for a Workload Carbon Footprint Standard
Adrian Cockcroft, tech advisor and former VP for sustainability architecture at Amazon, shared his vision at QCon London on sustainability commitments for cloud providers and the current challenges in determining their supply chain carbon footprint. Cockcroft advocated for a new real-time carbon footprint standard.
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Living on the Edge: Boosting Your Site's Performance with Edge Computing
Erica Pisani, senior software engineer at Netlify, presented at QCon London on what edge is, how running code and serving data on the edge can improve site performance, and how to leverage these options effectively in a site to maximize site performance with minimal architectural changes.
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The Commoditization of Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
Cloud services are evolving, which influences how developers build distributed applications. At QCon London, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Diagrid, discussed the intersection of cloud-native technologies like Dapr with developer-focused cloud services.
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Microsoft Adds Support for Pod Sandboxing to Azure Kubernetes Service
Microsoft has released, in preview, support for pod sandboxing in the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Available within all Azure regions for a subset of Azure VM sizes, pod sandboxing provides an isolation boundary between the container application and the shared kernel and compute resources of the container host.
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ChatGPT Now Available in Preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service
ChatGPT is now available in preview on Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI service allowing developers to integrate ChatGPT directly into a host of different enterprise and end-user applications using a token-based pricing system.
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Passwordless Cloud Deployments with GitHub Actions
GitHub’s CICD service offering, GitHub Actions, now supports the use of Open Identity Connect credentials to authenticate against cloud providers such as Hashicorp Vault, AWS, Azure and GCP without the use of long-lived credentials or passwords.
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Integrating Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server with Power Platform and Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new set of integrations with Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server and the Microsoft Power Platform and Azure- making it easier to develop solutions for analyzing data, automating processes, and building apps. These new integrations include PowerBI, Logic Apps, PowerApps, and Power Automate.
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Microsoft Claims SQL Server Performs Better on Azure Than AWS
In a recent benchmark, Microsoft claims that SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines can be up to 57% faster and cost up to 54% less than running a similar workload on AWS EC2.
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Improve Logic Apps (Standard) Workflows Observability with Application Insights
Microsoft recently announced the release of the Public Preview Enhancements for Logic Apps Standard in Application Insights. These enhancements provide developers with more in-depth insights into the performance and health of their standard Logic Apps, making it easier to diagnose issues and optimize performance.
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HashiCorp Vault Improves Multi-Namespace Workflows, Adds Managed Service for Azure
HashiCorp has released version 1.13 of Vault, their secrets and identity management platform. This release includes multi-namespace access workflows, improvements to the Google Cloud secrets engine, usability improvements to MFA, and certificate revocation for cross-cluster management. HashiCorp has also released Vault as a managed service for Microsoft Azure environments.
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Microsoft Azure Launches Cloud-Based Voice Gateway for Operators
Microsoft Azure recently announced the general availability of Azure Communications Gateway. This product lets operators connect their fixed and mobile voice networks to Teams Phone, Microsoft's cloud-based system.