Generative Pre-trained Transformer: Automating Podcast Synopsis Generation with Azure Cognitive Services

This blog post discusses how Azure Cognitive Services can be used to automate the generation of podcast synopses using Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) technology. By providing a brief summary of the podcast episode, GPT can create a longer synopsis that accurately reflects the content of the episode. This technology can save time and effort for podcast producers, while also improving the accessibility of their content for audiences. #AzureCognitiveServices #PodcastSynopsis #GPT #softcorpremium

Use Microsoft Purview to provide at-scale access to performance data in Azure SQL and SQL Server - Microsoft Community Hub

This blog post discusses the use of Microsoft Purview to provide at-scale access to performance data in Azure SQL and SQL Server. It mentions the importance of having a centralized data catalog and how Purview can help with data discovery, classification, and management. The post also highlights the benefits of using Purview for data governance and compliance. Overall, the post provides valuable insights into how Microsoft Purview can be used to improve data management in cloud environments. #MicrosoftPurview #AzureSQL #SQLServer #softcorpremium

Migrating from Single to Flexible Server with minimal downtime using MySQL Shell - Microsoft Community Hub

This blog post on the Microsoft Community Hub discusses how to migrate from a single server to a flexible server with minimal downtime using MySQL Shell. The post explains the step-by-step process and provides helpful commands for executing the migration. It also emphasizes the importance of testing and monitoring during the migration process to ensure a smooth transition. Overall, it's a helpful resource for anyone looking to migrate their database to a more flexible server with minimal downtime. #MySQLShell #FlexibleServer #downtime #softcorpremium

Integrating OpenAI with Streamlit: With Example Source Code Explainer

This blog post explains how to integrate OpenAI with Streamlit. It includes an example source code to help the reader understand the integration process. The post is aimed at developers who are interested in exploring the capabilities of OpenAI and using it in their projects. It is a great resource for anyone who wants to learn more about integrating AI technologies into their development workflow. #OpenAI #Streamlit #softcorpremium

SharePoint in the AI Era: Introducing Copilot in SharePoint & 10 more innovations for creators - Microsoft Community Hub

Microsoft has introduced Copilot in SharePoint along with 10 more innovations for creators. Copilot uses artificial intelligence to suggest relevant content to users and helps them to create documents faster. Additionally, SharePoint now includes a new home site app, improved mobile app, and integration with Microsoft Teams. Other updates include improved site performance, easier page authoring, and new web parts such as countdown timer, file viewer, and newsreel. Furthermore, SharePoint is now integrated with Microsoft Search, which allows users to search for content across the organization, including SharePoint sites, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer. #SharePoint #AI #Copilot #softcorpremium #softcorpremium

Build an End-to-End Power BI Project with DAX Suggestion

This blog post explains how to build an end-to-end Power BI project with DAX. It covers the basics of creating a data model, writing DAX formulas, and creating visualizations. The post also includes tips for optimizing performance and troubleshooting common issues. Overall, it serves as a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to use Power BI and DAX for their data analysis needs. #PowerBI #DAX #softcorpremium

Kyverno — verify Kubernetes control plane images | Cloud Native Computing Foundation

This blog post discusses the use of Kyverno, an open-source policy engine for Kubernetes. The post covers the process of deploying a local Kubernetes cluster, installing Kyverno, and using it to verify Kubernetes control plane images signatures. Kyverno is designed to be easy to use and flexible, allowing you to define and enforce a wide range of policies, including security, compliance, and operational best practices. It can help ensure that your cluster is always in a known, compliant state. #Kubernetes #Kyverno #policies #softcorpremium

Utilizing Bicep: Automatically deploy standard Azure IaaS model

This blog post discusses the benefits of utilizing Bicep for automatically deploying a standard Azure IaaS model. Bicep is a domain-specific language (DSL) that simplifies the process of deploying Azure resources. The post highlights the advantages of using Bicep, such as faster and more efficient deployments, improved code readability, and increased maintainability. It also provides step-by-step instructions on how to use Bicep to deploy an Azure IaaS model and includes code examples to illustrate the process. #Azure #IaaS #Bicep #softcorpremium

Optimizing data with automated intelligent document processing solutions | AWS Architecture Blog

This blog post on AWS Architecture Blog discusses the importance of optimizing data with automated intelligent document processing solutions. The post highlights how these solutions can help in reducing the time and cost involved in manual data processing, while also improving accuracy and efficiency. The blog post also delves into how AWS offers such solutions and how they can be leveraged for various use cases. Overall, the post serves as a useful resource for anyone interested in exploring document processing solutions in the cloud. #automatedintelligentdocumentprocessing #AWSArchitecture #softcorpremium

Building Your Network in the Cloud: A Beginner's Guide to Azure Virtual Networks - DEV Community

This blog post explains the fundamentals of Azure Virtual Networks (VNets) and how they provide a secure and scalable network infrastructure for cloud workloads. It covers the importance of virtual networks, how to plan them for supporting your architecture in Azure and how to create a basic virtual network using Bicep. The post also highlights the different ways of securely communicating with other Azure resources, such as deploying resources to the virtual network, using service endpoints, and connecting virtual networks via VNet peering. #Azure #VirtualNetworks #VNet #softcorpremium

Deploying a Production-Grade GKE Cluster: Best Practices and Guidelines | by Avinash Jha | Google Cloud - Community | Apr, 2023 | Medium

This blog post discusses the best practices and guidelines for deploying a production-grade Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster. The author explains the required GCP services for deploying a GKE cluster and emphasizes the importance of shared VPC, Cloud NAT, and Firewall Rules to ensure the security and isolation of resources. The article recommends choosing a private cluster with a private control plane for enhanced security. The post provides a comprehensive guide for deploying a GKE cluster while incorporating best practices for using GCP services. #GKE #GoogleCloud #softcorpremium

The Productivity Imperative - How Tech Functions Can Help Steer the Business Through Challenging Times - Orange Matter

This blog post talks about the importance of productivity in the current challenging business environment and how technology functions can help drive productivity. It emphasizes that anything that can increase the amount of work completed or reduce the cost and time required to do the work will increase productivity. The post also highlights the current focus of many organizations on cost-reduction and productivity improvement measures in order to build up contingency funds against unknown future risks. #productivity #costreduction #business #softcorpremium

Introducing Athena Provisioned Capacity | AWS News Blog

The blog post introduces Athena Provisioned Capacity, a new feature that allows customers to pre-purchase capacity for their queries in Amazon Athena. This feature helps to ensure that customers have the necessary resources to run their queries when they need them, without having to wait for resources to become available. In addition, the post highlights the benefits of this feature, such as predictable query performance and cost savings, and provides instructions on how to get started with Athena Provisioned Capacity. #AWS #Athena #ProvisionedCapacity #softcorpremium

Active Assist now recommends service limits, or quotas | Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud introduces Active Assist recommendations for service limits (quotas). The Active Assist quota management feature analyzes quota utilization and provides actionable and automatic recommendations to review quotas that have high utilization and are likely to run out. This feature is available to all customers today and helps large organizations manage quota and limit balancing to avoid downtime risks. The service limit recommender analyzes usage of all rate and allocation quotas to find quotas that need attention across organizations and to take action at the right time to avoid hitting a limit. #ActiveAssist #GoogleCloud #softcorpremium

Using Cloud Spanner to handle high throughput writes | Google Cloud Blog

This blog post explores how to use Cloud Spanner as a relational database to handle high throughput writes for social apps with viral posts. It discusses the challenge of hotspotting caused by too many requests being sent to the same database row and how Cloud Spanner's built-in sharding capability and strong transactional consistency can help overcome this issue. The post also highlights how Cloud Spanner provides SQL semantics for a range of solutions, making it useful for various industry verticals. #CloudSpanner #database #scaling #softcorpremium

BigQuery ML and Looker: Meeting the Predictive Analytics Challenge | Google Cloud - Community

This blog post explores the challenge of integrating large-scale machine learning models into visualizations for predictive data analysis. It introduces readers to tools like BigQuery and Looker, and walks them through the end-to-end process of data extraction, model training, and interpretation. The post also highlights the potential for data analysts to be autonomous in all stages of the predictive analysis process and offers a bonus section on explainable AI (XAI) to make the predictions exposed by the model more interpretable. #BigQuery #ML #Looker #predictiveanalytics #dataanalysis #XAI #softcorpremium

Jaliya's Blog: SSH into Linux Container in Azure App Service from Local Machine

This blog post explains how to SSH into a Linux container in Azure App Service from a local machine. The author shares their personal dislike for the SSH experience within the browser of Azure Portal and instead provides steps to create a remote connection using a TCP tunnel. They also include a command to use for SSHing from the local machine and suggest using tools like WinSCP for file transfer between the Linux container and the local machine. #Azure #SSH #Linux #softcorpremium

Dataflow ML innovations on Apache Beam | Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud has added three new machine learning focused features to Dataflow that tightly integrate with the vast resources from the community and help simplify running streaming ML models at scale in production. The new streaming feature allows you to update models, hot swapping them in a running streaming pipeline with no pause in processing the stream of data, avoiding downtime. Additionally, Automatic Model Refresh is a repository of pre-trained machine learning models, and it’s a valuable resource for researchers and developers who want to quickly and easily deploy machine learning models in their applications. #GoogleCloud #ApacheBeam #Dataflow #softcorpremium

The era of cloud optimization is upon us | InfoWorld

The big three cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft, Google) all reported earnings last week, and the word on every cloud executive’s lips was 'Customers continue to evaluate ways to optimize their cloud spending in response to these tough economic conditions.' This blog post talks about the era of cloud optimization and the need for companies to optimize their cloud spending. It also discusses the importance of cloud cost-cutting and improving IT operations in response to the current economic conditions. #cloud #optimization #AWS #Microsoft #Google #softcorpremium

Managing Cloud Spanner fine-grained access control (FGAC) at scale | Google Cloud Blog

This blog post discusses managing fine-grained access control of Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud's fully managed relational database that offers up to 99.999% of availability. The post introduces the newly available feature of fine-grained access control (FGAC) for Spanner, which allows access control at the granularity of schema objects. FGAC combines the benefits of IAM with traditional SQL role-based access control. The post provides a guide on how to configure fine-grained access to schema objects and troubleshoot permission issues using an inventory ledger application. #CloudSpanner #finegrainedaccesscontrol #softcorpremium

Why platform engineering? | InfoWorld

The blog post talks about the evolution of system configuration from manual to automated using devops tools and practices. It highlights the benefits of deploying with CI/CD, managing containerized systems, and using infrastructure as code, which enabled IT teams to improve system reliability, security, and performance. As a result, devops teams could deploy application changes and scale cloud infrastructure faster, leading to more frequent release cycles and automation to scale cloud. #devops #CI/CD #cloud #softcorpremium

Getting Started with Dedicated Workload profiles for Azure Container Apps - DEV Community

The blog post provides an overview of the Dedicated workload profiles feature for Azure Container Apps, which allows users to run applications with customized hardware. The post explains the differences between the Serverless consumption hosting plan and the Dedicated hosting plan, and the types of workload profiles that can be provisioned. It also covers the features that come with Dedicated workload profiles and how to provision them in the Azure portal. #AzureContainerApps #DedicatedWorkloadProfiles #softcorpremium

ServiceNow, Hugging Face's free StarCoder LLM takes on Copilot, CodeWhisperer | InfoWorld

ServiceNow and Hugging Face have collaborated to release a free large language model (LLM) called StarCoder, designed to generate code that can compete with AI-based programming tools such as GitHub Copilot and Google's Bard AI. #ServiceNow #HuggingFace #StarCoderLLM #softcorpremium

7 speed bumps on the road to AI | InfoWorld

This InfoWorld blog post explores the challenges and roadblocks in the development of AI. The author identifies seven speed bumps that need to be addressed, including the lack of quality data, algorithm bias, and ethical concerns. Despite these challenges, the author believes that AI has tremendous potential to positively impact society, and that continued research and development will help overcome these obstacles. #AI #machinelearning #datascience #softcorpremium #softcorpremium

Cloud Storage FUSE and CSI driver now available for GKE | Google Cloud Blog

Google Cloud announces the availability of Cloud Storage FUSE and GKE CSI driver for AI/ML workloads. Cloud Storage FUSE enables file semantics access to GCS buckets, providing a frictionless experience for applications that need file system semantics. The new Cloud Storage FUSE Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver on GKE available in public preview allows Kubernetes applications to mount Cloud Storage buckets as local file systems, providing portability for ML workloads that eliminates application refactoring costs. #GKE #CloudStorage #AI/ML #softcorpremium