Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Linux-based Azure Cosmos DB emulator is available as a Docker container and can run on a variety of platforms, including ARM64 architectures like Apple Silicon. It allows local development and testing of applications without needing an Azure subscription or incurring service costs.

Azure 69

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

However, as companies expand their operations and adopt multi-cloud architectures, they are faced with an invisible but powerful challenge: Data gravity. Instead of fighting against data gravity, organizations should design architectures that leverage their strengths while mitigating their risks.

Strategy 164

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Let’s examine common security risks, understand the importance of data encryption and various robust authentication methods such as Azure AD and shared access signatures, explore strategies for network protection, and emphasize the value of logging for enhanced oversight. By default, Azure Service Bus supports TLS 1.2

Azure 162

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CIO

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Making it easier to evaluate existing architecture against long-term goals.

Architecture 193

Architecture Enterprise Agile Artificial Inteligence 193

CIO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Oracle is collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure. AI exists because of data,” he said. You need to have access to data.

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Perficient

APRIL 25, 2025

In Part 2 , we integrated Azure AI Search with Azure Personalizer to build a smarter, user-focused experience in Optimizely CMS. We used ServiceAPI to send CMS content to Azure AI Search. Architecture Overview CMS content is indexed by Azure AI Search (via ServiceAPI or crawler). Why Natural Language Q&A?

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Xebia

JUNE 7, 2022

Their aim when building Azure Container Apps was to create an opinionated way of deploying containerized workloads to Azure that brings several features that Kubernetes could provide without having to manage a cluster: autoscaling, zero downtime deployments and traffic shaping with control over ingress.

Azure 130

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

Explaining further how Googles strategy differs from rivals, such as AWS and Microsoft, Hinchcliffe said, where Microsoft is optimizing for AI as UX layer and AWS is anchoring on primitives, Google is carving out the middle ground a developer-ready but enterprise-scalable agentic architecture.

Cloud 139

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Xebia

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Initially, our industry relied on monolithic architectures, where the entire application was a single, simple, cohesive unit. Ever increasing complexity To overcome these limitations, we transitioned to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Up until now, Bicep was a domain-specific language for Azure resource deployments.

Software Development 130

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Xebia

MAY 14, 2024

In August 2021, I was accepted to test and provide feedback on what was referred to as ‘Azure Worker Apps’, another Azure service Microsoft was developing to run containers. Fast forward, that service is now known as Azure Container Apps. This is where Azure Web Apps for Containers comes into play.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These pipelines require a complex set of tools installed on self-hosted Azure DevOps agents. To address these challenges, our architect proposed using Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling as an auto-scaling solution for our Azure DevOps Agent Pools. Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ), database events, HTTP requests, and many more.

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CIO

APRIL 29, 2025

Imagine, for example, asking an LLM which Amazon S3 storage buckets or Azure storage accounts contain data that is publicly accessible, then change their access settings? The MCP standard works using a server-client architecture. MCP clients are typically AI agents that serve as intermediaries between MCP servers and AI models.

DevOps 196

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 2, 2023

That’s why we are excited to launch Cloud NGFW for Azure to strengthen security for applications running on Microsoft Azure while streamlining network security operations. The added strength of Panorama integration makes Cloud NGFW for Azure even more powerful. No need to learn new tools or create new processes.

Azure 124

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

Already a Microsoft house, with.NET used for inhouse software development, Azure was the chosen destination. Moving data from legacy systems was also a mammoth project, along with migrating document management processes to Azure. A GECAS Oracle ERP system was upgraded and now runs in Azure, managed by a third-party Oracle partner.

Strategy 152

Strategy Azure Technical Review Systems Review 152

CIO

MAY 1, 2025

That mantra has come to life through a series of high-impact, business-aligned initiatives: A complete refresh of core security infrastructure, including a new MSSP and next-gen SIEM platform Implementation of a global SD-WAN network infrastructure Deployment of advanced mobile application management (MAM) for better remote access control Enhanced (..)

Innovation 120

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Or how to implement role-based access control (RBAC) in Azure DevOps in enterprise environments and still keep it maintainable. Introduction and key values Assigning permissions to users and groups of users in Azure DevOps in small companies, maybe up to about 25-50 employees is easy and straightforward. It’s not what they’re made for.

Azure 130

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As part of MMTech’s unifying strategy, Beswick chose to retire the data centers and form an “enterprisewide architecture organization” with a set of standards and base layers to develop applications and workloads that would run on the cloud, with AWS as the firm’s primary cloud provider.

Generative AI 183

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Xebia

JUNE 9, 2023

This worked out great until I tried to follow a tutorial written by a colleague which used the Azure Python SDK to create a dataset and upload it to an Azure storage account. The software used also needs to be architecture specific. brew install azure-cli brew install poetry etc. Well not really. We are only halfway.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

You either need: Experienced developers to maintain architectural integrity, maintainability and licensing considerations, or A cloud platform built to adapt to the changing landscape and build, migrate and manage cloud applications. Until you get those, here are some best practices for getting started.

Infrastructure 246

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

However, it is not available as a default metric in Azure Insights. The post Monitoring consumer lag in Azure Event Hub appeared first on Xebia Blog. Why Consumer lag is the most important metric to monitor when working with event streams. Want to have this metric available as part of your monitoring solution?

Azure 130

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Perficient

AUGUST 12, 2024

Azure Integration Services (AIS) and MuleSoft are two prominent players in this field. Azure Integration Services is a cloud-based integration platform provided by Microsoft, while MuleSoft is an integration platform that allows developers to connect applications, data, and devices. Here are five major benefits of AIS over MuleSoft.

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Dzone - DevOps

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Transitioning from monolithic architecture to microservices brings about significant advantages for businesses. While monolithic structures have their simplicity, they come with limitations such as complex updates, manual testing requirements, and difficulties in scaling.

Microservices 105

Microservices Architecture Azure Testing 105

Cloudera

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Cloudera Data Warehouse (CDW) is a cloud native data warehouse service that runs Cloudera’s powerful query engines on a containerized architecture to do analytics on any type of data. It is part of the Cloudera Data Platform, or CDP , which runs on Azure and AWS, as well as in the private cloud. Network Security.

Azure 123

Azure Load Balancer Data Firewall 123

The Citus Data

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Today, we are excited to announce PostgreSQL 14’s General Availability (GA) on Azure’s Hyperscale (Citus) option. In upcoming months, we will roll out Postgres 14 across more Azure regions and also release it with our new Flexible Server option in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Favorite new features in PostgreSQL 14.

Azure 144

Azure Software Review Testing Open Source 144

CIO

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In September last year, the company started collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers , giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

AWS 218

AWS Azure Database Administration Google Cloud 218

CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Organizations must decide on their hosting provider, whether it be an on-prem setup, cloud solutions like AWS, GCP, Azure or specialized data platform providers such as Snowflake and Databricks. Not my original quote, but a cardinal sin of cloud-native data architecture is copying data from one location to another.

Data 167

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Xebia

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

So, you want to start with green software on the Azure cloud by measuring your carbon footprint. Microsoft Azure’s Sustainability API can help organizations measure their carbon footprint to analyze and reduce it. It’s not ideal if you want to start carbon optimizing your software architecture. But where to start?

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Mobilunity

APRIL 24, 2025

In today’s digital landscape, businesses increasingly use cloud architecture to drive innovation, scalability, and efficiency. Cloud-native applications are enhanced for adaptability and efficiency within the cloud setting by utilizing cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. Complex architecture.

Architecture 40

Architecture Cloud Google Cloud Systems Review 40

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

As part of MMTech’s unifying strategy, Beswick chose to retire the data centers and form an “enterprisewide architecture organization” with a set of standards and base layers to develop applications and workloads that would run on the cloud, with AWS as the firm’s primary cloud provider.

Generative AI 158

Generative AI Technical Advisors Insurance Weak Development Team 158

Kentik

JUNE 27, 2023

Today, we’re unveiling Kentik Map for Azure and extensive support for Microsoft Azure infrastructure within the Kentik platform. Purpose-built for Azure Kentik Map now visualizes Azure infrastructure in an interactive, data- and context-rich map highlighting how resources nest within each other and connect to on-prem environments.

Azure 105

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

However, it is not available as a default metric in Azure Insights. The Azure SDK can retrieve the sequence number of the last enqueued event of a partition. Since both are simple counters you can calculate the difference and publish this as a custom metric in azure insights. You can set it up with some custom code.

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Xebia

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In March this year, Microsoft made another offering in Azure generally available: Azure Deployment Environments. Azure Deployment Environments lets development teams quickly and easily spin up app infrastructure. Azure Deployment Environments are part of Azure Dev Center, which also houses the Azure Dev Boxes.

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Dzone - DevOps

MARCH 2, 2023

Introduction A distributed systems platform called Azure Service Fabric makes it simple to bundle, launch, and manage scalable and dependable microservices and containers. You can run containerized stateful services created in any language or code using the Service Fabric programming architecture.

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CIO

APRIL 11, 2023

We spoke with Siddhartha Gupta, Global Head of Application Modernization on Azure at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) , about this trend and what financial services organizations need to do to improve their capacity for agility and innovation. A cloud-native architecture, which is designed for openness, makes that possible.

Innovation 204

Innovation Cloud Fintech Azure 204

CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

A work in progress Analysts note that while cloud hyperscalers are working to address the concern it is not known the extent to which Googles Agentspace, Microsoft Azure AI Services, xAI, or OpenAIs management platform will offer support, let alone for all agents.

Software Review 179

Software Review Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Government 179

Cloudera

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

After the launch of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC) on AWS a few months ago, we are thrilled to announce that CDF-PC is now generally available on Microsoft Azure, allowing NiFi users on Azure to run their data flows in a cloud-native runtime. . The need for a cloud-native Apache NiFi service on Microsoft Azure.

Azure 116

Azure Cloud Infrastructure Virtualization 116

CIO

APRIL 1, 2025

AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI. Consequently, FinOps strategies for AI must account for these unique demands.

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