The Crazy Programmer

JUNE 14, 2024

Developers now have access to various AI-powered tools that assist in coding, debugging, and documentation. This article provides a detailed overview of the best AI programming tools in 2024. GitHub Copilot It is one of the most popular AI-powered coding assistant tools developed by GitHub and OpenAI.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This may involve embracing redundancies or testing new tools for future operations. Rene Van Den Bedem, principal technical program manager at Microsoft Azure, noted the benefits clients are seeing by running VMware and Nutanix together on Azure public cloud. I think we’re going to see more of that.

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CIO

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Using deep neural networks and Azure GPUs built with NVIDIA technology, startup Riskfuel is developing accelerated models based on AI to determine derivative valuation and risk sensitivity. Trading: GenAI optimizes quant finance, helps refine trading strategies, executes trades more effectively, and revolutionizes capital markets forecasting.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Why Automate Sitecore Hotfix Deployment to Azure PaaS? By automating the deployment of Sitecore hotfixes with an Azure DevOps pipeline, you can ensure faster, more reliable updates while reducing human error and minimizing downtime. In this post, well walk you through how to automate this process using Azure DevOps.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 15, 2024

We’ll explore how Azure AI Speech, DALL-E, Azure OpenAI, and GitHub Copilot converge to eliminate the need for visual designers, voice actors, and sound designers, thereby revolutionising the traditional development workflow. It’s a great tool for developing any application that leverages LLMs.

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CIO

JANUARY 30, 2025

By definition, hyper-converged tech delivers far higher levels of automation than standalone offerings due to the engineering to consolidate the platform, and is built on the familiar technologies of Microsoft Azure Local hosted by Dell Technologies server platforms 1. This means that automation and skills are addressed at the outset.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, business intelligence tools are indispensable for organizations aiming to make informed decisions. Version control systems (VCS) are essential tools in modern software development, offering a structured way to manage changes, track history, and facilitate collaborative efforts among teams.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 24, 2024

One of the key challenges in large-scale CI/CD environments is managing the availability of build agents, especially when working with hundreds of specialized pipelines that require custom tools and configurations. These pipelines require a complex set of tools installed on self-hosted Azure DevOps agents. What exactly is KEDA?

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Perficient

APRIL 9, 2025

Azure AI Search could be just the tool you need! What is Azure AI Search? Azure AI Search is Microsoft’s cloud-based search service powered by AI. Smooth integration with other Azure services. However, it doesnt offer the advanced AI features, scalability, or flexibility that Azure provides right off the bat.

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Xebia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It is a question I often get when I talk to customers about Azure DevOps. Some of them run on-premises Azure DevOps Server and wonder what it costs to run it in the Cloud as a SaaS service. Keep in mind that the Azure Pricing Calculator or Azure DevOps Pricing is your friend! Up until 5 users it remains free.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 15, 2024

You can see it like a firewall or compare it to an Azure Network Security Group on a virtual network. It will visualize the rules you have specified and give you the correct yaml definition, a helpful tool to understand the different settings of the complex network policy definition.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Enter robotic process automation (RPA) : a smart set of tools that deploys AI and low-code options to simplify workflows and save everyone time while also adding safeguards that can prevent costly mistakes. Many RPA platforms offer computer vision and machine learning tools that can guide the older code. What is RPA?

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Xebia

JUNE 18, 2024

In this blogpost, we’re going to show how you can turn this opaqueness into transparency by using Astronomer Cosmos to automatically render your dbt project into an Airflow DAG while running dbt on Azure Container Instances. Azure Container Instances allow you to run containers on-demand in a dedicated environment. Kubernetes 3.

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CIO

APRIL 15, 2025

During his one hour forty minute-keynote, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud showcased updates around most of the companys offerings, including new large language models (LLMs) , a new AI accelerator chip, new open source frameworks around agents, and updates to its data analytics, databases, and productivity tools and services among others.

Cloud 131

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Perficient

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This blog offers a comprehensive guide to setting up Continuous Integration (CI) in Azure DevOps to automate the integration of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) code by leveraging Azure DevOps pipelines. Login to Visual Studio Online (Azure DevOps) Select your project to set up a build definition. tool installer.

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CIO

JANUARY 7, 2025

All the major cloud providers from North America AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud are on par with each other, with most of their services and capabilities are primed to address the needs of any enterprise. The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) is an effective tool that helps to evaluate cloud readiness.

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Xebia

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Azure CLI is a great nifty tool to chat to Azure as well as Azure DevOps and there’s a AzureCLI@v2 task in Azure DevOps that preconfigures your Azure subscription and all.While testing I got increasingly frustrated by how slow az is on GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines hosted runners.

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Prisma Clud

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

At the beginning of July 2023, I took a stroll around the azure/login GitHub Action repository. The issue was titled “ SECURITY: Azure/login in some cases leaks Azure Application Variables to the GitHub build log ”. Figure 1: Security issue reported in the Azure/login project Well this is pretty straight forward, I thought.

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CIO

JANUARY 14, 2025

In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. In this world, Azure must become the infrastructure for AI, while we build our AI platform and developer tools spanning Azure AI Foundry, GitHub, and VS Code on top of it.

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Xebia

JANUARY 30, 2024

DALL-E, Azure Machine Learning and Azure AI Speech (formerly Cognitive Services) to create fresh daily content. I’m building this in an Azure Durable Function to deal with these long-running processes. However, it’s good to use professional tooling because prompt engineering is more than just stringing some words together.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Now the team behind creating Conductor are launching Orkes , a cloud-hosted version of the tool based on Conductor; and along with this, they’re announcing $9.3 In 2021, the three reunited and were joined by Lukose (an alum of Microsoft Azure, where he’d worked with George), to start Orkes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

You will be excused if you haven’t heard of Wiz , an 18-month-old Israeli security startup from Microsoft Azure vets, but it has already been turning heads by raising $550 million on a $6 billion valuation. (No, “When we think about the tools organizations started from deploying in the cloud, most were not cloud native.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Setting the standard for analytics and AI As the core development platform was refined, Marsh McLennan continued moving workloads to AWS and Azure, as well as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. The platform include custom plug-ins to Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

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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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CIO

APRIL 25, 2024

The dynamic nature of the cloud — and the need for continually optimize operations — often drives requirements unique to a CIO’s enterprise, meaning that even some popular third-party cloud cost optimization tools may no longer fit an enterprise’s specific requirements. Garcia gives the example of the AWS cURL file, written three times daily.

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Xebia

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Using IaaS and PaaS services instead of custom built self-hosted tools greatly accelerated teams. Not an easy task considering that Azure has more than 200 services and products at the time of writing. Platform engineering provides a standardized environment that integrates tools and processes to enhance collaboration and efficiency.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Camelot has the flexibility to run on any selected GenAI LLM across cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP (Google Cloud Platform), ensuring that the company meets compliance regulations for data security. It has streamlined the entire process, helping IT teams handle CMMC assessments more effectively.”

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Xebia

OCTOBER 31, 2023

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (GHAzDo) builds on top of the functionality for GitHub Advanced Security and is giving you extra security tools to embed into your developer way of working. It’s a great way to get started with security in your Azure Pipelines and Azure repos and I’ve written about it before in this blogpost.

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CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Managing agentic AI is indeed a significant challenge, as traditional cloud management tools for AI are insufficient for this task, says Sastry Durvasula, chief operating, information, and digital Officer at TIAA. Current state cloud tools and automation capabilities are insufficient to handle the dynamic agenting AI decision-making.

Software Review 179

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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. For example, some creative tools offer unlimited edits or dynamic credit systems, reflecting a blend of resource usage and value delivered.

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CIO

JANUARY 26, 2023

They’ve started adding better accounting tools and alarms that are triggered before the bills reach the stratosphere. See Azure Cost Management , Google Cloud Cost Management , and AWS Cloud Financial Management tools for the big three clouds. What follows is an alphabetical list of the best cloud cost tracking tools.

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Tenable

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Important CVE-2024-43602 | Azure CycleCloud Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2024-43602 is a RCE vulnerability in Microsoft’s Azure CycleCloud, a tool that helps in managing and orchestrating High Performance Computing (HPC) environments in Azure. This flaw received the highest CVSSv3 score of the month, a 9.9

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CIO

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Take advantage of modeling and cost estimator tools that can help IT model configurations and better understand resource needs and budget impacts for a shift from legacy VDI to DaaS. Find the best consolidated management tools that can help enterprises and MSPs manage scaling, security, and updates.

Software 158

Software How To Virtualization Azure 158

CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Setting the standard for analytics and AI As the core development platform was refined, Marsh McLellan continued moving workloads to AWS and Azure, as well as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Google Cloud Platform. The platform include custom plug-ins to Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Generative AI 158

Generative AI Technical Advisors Insurance Weak Development Team 158

CIO

AUGUST 14, 2024

Between building gen AI features into almost every enterprise tool it offers, adding the most popular gen AI developer tool to GitHub — GitHub Copilot is already bigger than GitHub when Microsoft bought it — and running the cloud powering OpenAI, Microsoft has taken a commanding lead in enterprise gen AI. That’s risky.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Today a startup that is building tools to help incumbent address this challenge is announcing a round of funding on the back of a lot of demand for its services. Even in those cases, he added, “we are part of that infrastructure on services like Azure, or Google Cloud or AWS, but they own it — not us.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Users who expected to be able to use the resources of the Azure content delivery network (CDN) from Edgio until November 2025, as previously announced, had a not-so-festive gift this week the CDN is now shutting down on Jan. Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions installation tools are dependent on some of these resources, he added.

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