Tag: Azure
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Free Windows web server with a Lets Encrypt SSL certificate in AWS
Posted on October 23, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Setting up a free Windows web server with Let's Encrypt SSL on AWS EC2 is surprisingly straightforward, even for those without extensive experience. By Angus Fox.
Tags infosec azure app-development ssl web-development
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What is Azure Local and why should SysAdmins care?
Posted on September 10, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Azure Local is not just a rebrand. It's a message. One that says Microsoft finally gets how confusing their cloud naming has been. Microsoft's hybrid story has been a bit confusing over the years, but now we have some clarity. By Andy Syrewicze.
Tags devops web-development app-development azure
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Microsoft entrusts DocumentDB to Linux Foundation
Posted on September 2, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length short
Microsoft has announced that DocumentDB, their distributed NoSQL database built on PostgreSQL, is joining the Linux Foundation. This represents a significant shift from Microsoft's traditional approach to database development. DocumentDB was initially created within Microsoft to handle document-oriented workloads (think JSON data) at scale, prioritizing high availability and flexibility. By Bobby Borisov.
Tags nosql database cio azure
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A 10x faster TypeScript
Posted on June 26, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Most developer time is spent in editors, and it's where performance is most important. We want editors to load large projects quickly, and respond quickly in all situations. Modern editors like Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code have excellent performance as long as the underlying language services are also fast. With our native implementation, we'll be able to provide incredibly fast editor experiences. By Anders Hejlsberg.
Tags azure javascript app-development web-development performance
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Introducing KBLaM: Bringing plug-and-play external knowledge to LLMs
Posted on May 20, 2025, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, language understanding, and even creative tasks. Yet, a key challenge persists: how to efficiently integrate external knowledge. By Taketomo Isazawa.
Tags azure cloud ai cio big-data
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What is Azure IoT edge
Posted on January 8, 2025, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
IoT Edge is a set of software and services that extends Azure capabilities to edge devices, enabling them to collect, analyze, and act upon data locally before sending it to the cloud. This architecture helps reduce latency, improve performance, and enhance security in industrial automation and other IoT scenarios. By learn.microsoft.com.
Tags iot cloud app-development azure learning cio
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How to use GPT to analyze large datasets
Posted on October 30, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Absorbing and then summarizing very large quantities of content in just a few seconds truly is a big deal. As an example, a while back I received a link to the recording of an important 90 minute business video conference that I'd missed a few hours before. By David Clinton.
Tags big-data machine-learning apis ai azure database cloud
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C++ Refactoring tools in Visual Studio
Posted on July 21, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Code refactoring is the process of restructuring existing code, while its outward functionality remains unchanged. By refactoring, you can simplify complex code structures, reduce code redundancy, and enhance code reusability. Visual Studio offers many tools to help refactor your C++ code. This article will delve into these tools, using the bullet3 open-source code as an example. By Mryam Girmay.
Tags code-refactoring how-to app-development azure
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Implement security breach prevention and recovery infrastructure
Posted on April 30, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
As part of Zero Trust adoption guidance, this article is part of the Prevent or reduce business damage from a breach business scenario and describes how to protect your organization from cyberattacks. This article focuses on how to deploy additional security measures to prevent a breach and limit its spread and to create and test a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) infrastructure to more quickly recover from a destructive breach. By BrendaCarter, joe-davies-affirm and MicrosoftGuyJFlo.
Tags devops azure ssl app-development infosec teams servers
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Scaling up: bringing your Azure Devops CI/CD setup to the next level
Posted on January 8, 2024, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Azure DevOps pipelines are a great way to automate your CI/CD process. Most often, they are configured on a per project basis. This works fine when you have few projects. But what if you have many projects? In this blog post, we will show you how you can scale up your Azure DevOps CI/CD setup for reusability and easy maintenance. By Jeroen Overschie, Timo Uelen.
Tags software-architecture devops app-development azure cloud
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Azure OpenAI Service powers the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem
Posted on January 3, 2024, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Many AI systems are designed for collaboration: Copilot is one of them. Copilot—powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service—allows you to simplify how you design, operate, optimize, and troubleshoot apps and infrastructure from cloud to edge. It utilizes language models, the Azure control plane, and insights about your Azure and Arc-enabled assets. All of this is carried out within the framework of Azure's steadfast commitment to safeguarding data security and privacy. By Andy Beatman Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure AI.
Tags ai event-driven web-development app-development azure
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Comprehensive guide to Internet of Things data streaming from Raspberry Pi to Azure
Posted on October 25, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
What comes to mind when you hear "Raspberry Pi in the cloud"? A freshly baked pie floating away, forever out of reach? this blog post aims to paint a simpler picture, showing how easy it is to build your own IoT in the Cloud setup. As mentioned in the preface, this post is part of our ongoing IoT series, where we'll elevate our Raspberry Pi devices by streaming data into the Microsoft Azure Cloud. By Stepan GaponiukDr and Heiko Kromer.
Tags cloud azure iot infosec robotics