Linkerd and ingress controllers: bringing the outside world in

This post discusses the challenge of exposing endpoints publicly in cloud-native computing and how ingress controllers, which mediate access from the outside world to a Kubernetes cluster, are used to solve this problem. The post also highlights the basic functionality of ingress controllers and how they provide sophisticated controls at layer 7 and layer 4.
#IngressProblem #cloudnativecomputing #Kubernetes

Armchair Architects: How do you get meaning from your data?

This episode discusses how to extract meaning from data, particularly in the context of IoT devices. The hosts highlight the importance of context and semantics to understand the data and answer questions such as efficiency, predicting future events, and taking action.
#IoT #dataextraction

Form Recognizer previews document classification, Azure OpenAI integration and lots more

Form Recognizer is an Applied AI service that provides document understanding capabilities. The latest update introduces new features like document classification and prebuilt models, as well as the ability to extract fields from documents using Azure OpenAI models through queries.
#FormRecognizer #AppliedAI #AzureOpenAI

Physical switch requirement changes for Azure Stack HCI

Basel Kablawi, PM on the Azure Edge and Platform - Core Networking team, announced updates to physical network switch requirements for Azure Stack HCI's hyperconverged infrastructure solution. The ecosystem of physical switches will now be aligned based on the type of traffic they carry, offering more low-cost and high-quality devices for selection over time.
#AzureStackHCI #Networking

Optimize PyTorch training performance with Reduction Server on Vertex AI

The post discusses the challenges of distributed training for complex deep learning models and larger datasets. It focuses on using Reduction Server, a Vertex AI feature that optimizes bandwidth and latency for multi-node distributed training on NVIDIA GPUs.
#distributedtraining #deeplearning #nvidia

AWS’s Anti-Competitive Move Hidden in Plain Sight

The post discusses an aspect of how AWS advantages its own offerings that is anti-competitive and has not been widely talked about.
#AWS #anti-competitive

Automatically discovering API endpoints and generating schemas using machine learning

The post discusses the use of machine learning to automatically discover API endpoints and generate schemas.
#machinelearning #APIendpoints

Docker sunsets Free Team subscriptions, roiling open source projects

Docker users with free team accounts have been given a one month notice to either upgrade to a paid subscription or risk losing access to their data. This move affects many open source projects that rely on the free version of Docker Team subscriptions.
#Docker #subscription

Tips for using Teams chat to stay organized, engaged, and have fun

The post provides tips for keeping chats organized in Microsoft Teams, including hiding and unhiding chats, deleting chats, marking as unread, and muting chats.
#MicrosoftTeams #chatorganization

Automate prework to save time deploying an Amazon EKS Kubernetes cluster

The article discusses a solution for automating prework when deploying an Amazon EKS Kubernetes cluster, which typically involves configuring various manifests, CNI custom network and Helm charts. The solution combines a sample AWS CloudFormation template with the Modular and Scalable Amazon EKS Architecture on AWS to simplify the initial setup.
#AmazonEKS #Kubernetes

SenseTime Releases Large Multimodal Model amid ChatGPT Boom

SenseTime has released a large multimodal model in the midst of the ChatGPT boom.
#SenseTime #ChatGPT

Playlists, offline viewing and more in Stream (on SharePoint)

Microsoft Stream has introduced new features such as Playlists, Offline Viewing on the Stream mobile app, and Variable Speed Playback to enhance video curation and playback for a more robust platform for video needs.
#Microsoft #Stream #Video

IPv6 Coming to Azure AD

Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) will support IPv6 in a phased approach starting March 31st, 2023. Organizations with public IPv6 addresses representing their network are advised to update their named locations in Conditional Access policies to include these addresses to avoid users being blocked.
#AzureAD #IPv6

Announcing Database connections for Azure Static Web Apps with Data API builder

Azure Static Web Apps introduces database connections which allows easy access to Azure database content from front-end static apps with REST and GraphQL, without having to write any backend code. This feature supports Azure SQL, Azure Database for MySQL (Flex Server), Azure Database for PostgreSQL (Single Server, Flex Server), or Azure CosmosDB for NoSQL, and comes with built-in authorization, relationships, query optimizations, and scalability.
#AzureStaticWebApps #databaseconnections

Azure OpenAI Services in teaching and education

The article discusses the impact of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-3 on education and presents the author’s personal perspective on how Azure OpenAI Services can be used in education, with a focus on building ChatGPT-like functionality using one’s own data. The article also introduces Azure OpenAI Services, which is an integration of Azure cloud platform with Open AI for applying LLMs and generative AI for enterprise use cases.
#AzureOpenAI #GPT3

Introducing time-bound Session Length defaults to improve your security posture

Google Cloud offers session management controls to protect sensitive data and actions by setting up time-bound access for specific users. This includes a default 16-hour session length recommended for existing customers who have not set their session length, and two tiers of session management for Google services and Google Cloud services.
#GoogleCloud #sessionmanagement #accesscontrol

Civet: A better TypeScript?

Civet is a modern language that aims to give you everything you like about TypeScript with more power and simplicity, including early access to proposed ECMAScript language features. It's described as a kind of modern CoffeeScript for TypeScript that could surprise you with its capabilities.
#TypeScript #ECMAScript

AWS Chatbot Now Integrates With Microsoft Teams

AWS announced the availability of AWS Chatbot on Microsoft Teams for troubleshooting and operating AWS resources. This enables ChatOps which centralizes infrastructure and application management while automating operations.
#AWS #Chatbot

Mitigate mainframe migration risks with Dual Run

CIOs are considering modernizing their mainframe investments by migrating to cloud platforms, but face challenges such as rising operational costs and difficulty finding talent. Google Cloud has announced Dual Run, a mainframe modernization solution built on Banco Santander's technology that enables customers to run parallel production systems, allowing real-time testing of applications on Google Cloud without disrupting business.
#mainframemodernization #cloudmigratation

Super Bot Fight Mode is now configurable!

Announcement that Super Bot Fight Mode is now configurable.
#SuperBotFightMode #configurable

.NET 8 Preview 2 brings Blazor performance boosts

Microsoft released the second preview of .NET 8 with enhancements to ASP.NET Core, including a high-performance Blazor grid component called QuickGrid for displaying tabular data. The preview also includes improved WebAssembly performance and can be downloaded from dotnet.microsoft.com.
#Microsoft #ASP.NETCore #QuickGrid

Schedules are now available for CNCF-hosted co-located events at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

CNCF has released the schedules for co-located events at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, which includes ArgoCon, CiliumCon, Kubernetes on Edge Day and more. Registration for the In-person All-Access pass is sold out, but attendees can add themselves to the waitlist while the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe ONLY pass is still available.
#CNCF #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon

GraphQL on Azure: Part 14 - Using Data API builder with SWA and Blazor

The post describes how to use SWA Data Connections with Blazor and SQL backend, instead of Cosmos DB, to generate types for Azure Databases (DAB). It also provides instructions for creating a SQL table and fixing a bug in DAB that handles JSON columns.
#Blazor #SQL

Performance Tuning Synapse Dedicated Pools - Understanding the Query Lifecycle

The blog post discusses the importance of following best practices for dedicated SQL pools in Azure Synapse Analytics to avoid performance issues. It explains the different steps a query goes through, from being submitted by the user/client application to returning the result set, and how delays in any of these steps can impact the overall runtime of the query.
#AzureSynapseAnalytics #SQLPools

Accelerate labelling with GPT models in Language Cognitive Services

Azure has announced the ability to automatically label documents with GPT models for custom named entity recognition. This feature can significantly reduce the time-consuming process of labelling, and requires access to Azure Open AI.
#Azure #GPT #namedentityrecognition