Azure, Open Source and Tools

Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

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 million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community.

Open Source

Open Source Tools Microservices Cloud

DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

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.

Tools

Tools Cloud AWS Off-The-Shelf

InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Xebia

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

InnerSource can be defined as the application of open-source software development principles within an organization’s internal software development processes. It draws on the valuable lessons learned from open-source projects and adapts them to the context of how companies create software internally.

Open Source

Open Source Software Review Software Development Organization

Webinars

Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

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Upbound nabs $60M to grow its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management project

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As a result, they are hedging their bets with a multi-cloud strategy, but this creates a new problem around finding a single tool for managing it all. That’s where Upbound comes in with its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management tool. It’s not only catching on with users.

Open Source

Open Source Cloud AWS Linux

Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco

InfoWorld

MARCH 15, 2024

Falco , the open-source, cloud-native, runtime security tool, recently graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s incubation program. That means it’s considered stable and ready for use in production environments, including Azure.

Azure

Azure Open Source Cloud Programming

Checkov 3.0: Upgraded Open-Source Infrastructure-as-Code Security

Prisma Clud

OCTOBER 25, 2023

of Checkov — Prisma Cloud’s open-source infrastructure-as-code (IaC) security scanner — is now available. Since its launch in late 2019, Checkov has been downloaded over 80 million times, making it one of the most popular open-source IaC security scanners. Version 3.0 Checkov 3.0 The post Checkov 3.0:

Open Source

Open Source Infrastructure Policies ChatGPT

Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution

DevOps.com

MAY 7, 2019

Needless to say, DevOps as a practice is largely fueled by open source. The growth and popularity of open source tools such as Elasticsearch, Kubernetes and others are driven largely by the increased flexibility, innovation and familiarity of options. The post Logz.io

Open Source

Open Source Azure DevOps Cloud

WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps

DevOps.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

WhiteSource has added the Microsoft Azure DevOps platform to the list of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms its open source vulnerability scanning tools natively supports. The post WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps appeared first on DevOps.com.

Azure

Azure DevOps Tools Open Source

All the Small Things: Azure CLI Leakage and Problematic Usage Patterns

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.

Azure

Azure Software Review Report Tools

Citus 11 for Postgres goes fully open source, with query from any node

The Citus Data

JUNE 17, 2022

beta blog post , but we also have big surprise for those of you who use Citus open source that was not part of the initial beta. When we do a new Citus release, we usually release 2 versions: The open source version and the enterprise release which includes a few extra features. Hidden preview feature: Triggers!

Open Source

Open Source Load Balancer Azure Applications

Azure container Apps: The future of Microservices in Azure?

Xebia

JUNE 7, 2022

Kubernetes also offers great tools for autoscaling, recovery of failing containers, zero downtime deployments, and controlling the network within the applications with service meshes. Introducing Azure Container Apps (ACA). What features does Azure Container Apps have to offer?

Azure

Azure Microservices Serverless Applications

The Role of Open Source in Cloud Security: A Case Study with Terrascan by Tenable

Tenable

MAY 11, 2023

Open source software and cloud-native infrastructure are inextricably linked and can play a key role in helping to manage security. Open source security tools like Terrascan by Tenable are easy to scale, cost-effective and benefit from an agile community of contributors. What is Terrascan by Tenable?

Open Source

Open Source Case Study Study Cloud

12 data science certifications that will pay off

CIO

JANUARY 19, 2024

Cost: Free Location: Online Duration: Self-paced Expiration: Credentials do not expire Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals Microsoft’s Azure AI Fundamentals certification validates your knowledge of machine learning and artificial intelligence concepts, and how they relate to Microsoft Azure services.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Data Machine Learning Azure

Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

CIO

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

It will provide access to Azure features, including speech recognition and sentiment analysis, and the ability to add more sophisticated features through Power Platform connectors and Power Automate workflows, all with governance features so that IT is still in control.

Generative AI

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Azure ChatGPT

5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. It’s blocked.” And we’ve switched among different OpenAI models.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT Open Source Azure

Build Infrastructure as Code Efficiently With an Open Source Terraform Accelerator

Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 7, 2020

An open-source Terraform accelerator is a set of proven code and a platform that organizations can use to build their AWS and Azure infrastructures faster. This previously took 10 hours using the basic Terraform tool. In addition to requiring smaller teams, this allows for incremental improvements and greater stability.

Open Source

Open Source Infrastructure Azure AWS

One-Click Deploying EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure Using Terraform

Dzone - DevOps

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As a popular open-source MQTT broker, EMQX provides high scalability, reliability, and security for MQTT messaging. By using Terraform, a widespread Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, you can automate the deployment of EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure, making it easy to set up and manage your MQTT infrastructure.

Azure

Azure IoT Open Source Scalability

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO

AUGUST 24, 2023

These rules require automated decision-making tools to undergo bias audits, and job candidates notified about their use. If such a tool is augmented or replaced by an HR chatbot powered by gen AI, then it will need to have access to the employee database so it can answer user questions. Insight used the Azure OpenAI Service to do this.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Security Open Source ChatGPT

CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

CIO

MARCH 18, 2024

Despite his preference for working with large players, Nafde is also looking at smaller companies that have built generative AI tools that run on the hyperscalers. One such company has built a tool that predicts customer intent and behavior based on previous interactions and other market data.

Artificial Inteligence

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All you need to know about Azure DevOps!

Cloud That

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

What is Azure DevOps? Core Azure DevOps Services. Microsoft Azure DevOps Server. Pricing for Azure DevOps. Azure DevOps: Sign up. Azure DevOps Services. Azure provides cloud-based DevOps services. Because of the rising need for cloud-based technology, DevOps tools have also moved to the cloud.

Azure

Azure DevOps Testing Google Cloud

Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

JULY 14, 2023

But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models. Fine-tuning applies to both hosted cloud LLMs and open source LLM models you run yourself, so this level of ‘shaping’ doesn’t commit you to one approach. You really have to take what’s already there.

Generative AI

Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Open Source ChatGPT

Which Is Best for Your MariaDB Cloud Migration: Azure or an Azure VM?

Datavail

AUGUST 26, 2021

MariaDB is a powerful open-source relational database that can expand to even more functionality when you migrate it to Azure Database for MariaDB. The Benefits of Moving to Azure for MariaDB. Azure’s cloud platform offers many benefits, especially if you’re migrating an on-premises MariaDB database.

Azure

Azure Cloud Database Administration Disaster Recovery

How to Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Azure

d2iq

MARCH 18, 2021

D2iQ Konvoy simplifies the deployment on Azure by providing a command line interface to automate the deployment and operations of Kubernetes clusters all in one place. In this tutorial, we’ll show you the provisioning of an enterprise-grade Kubernetes cluster on Azure using a single command. And that’s it!

Azure

Azure Authentication How To Open Source

Streamline CI/CD with Azure DevOps Toolchains

Datavail

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps platform has the CI/CD tool chains you need to do just that. The evolving Azure DevOps tool kit that embraces CI/CD development offers solutions to those challenges: The need for extended security. Azure DevOps Platform Delivers Top-of-Line CI/CD Toolchains.

Azure

Azure DevOps Testing Serverless

Azure Synapse Analytics

Sunflower Lab

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Choosing the Ultimate Data Analytics Tool As a digital service providing enterprise, we constantly find ways to help a business through technology, and with this due process we find new innovative ideas and tools which are yet to be implemented by many of the enterprises in their system.

Azure

Azure Analytics UI/UX Software Review

MongoDB: Make a Cloud-native Switch with Azure Cosmos DB

Datavail

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

One solution to consider is using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB in tandem with its open-source MongoDB API. What is Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL platform set up on Microsoft’s Azure cloud. Integration with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB, enabling no-ETL analytics.

Azure

Azure Cloud Open Source Serverless

Comparing IaC tools for Azure: Terraform and Bicep

Apiumhub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Infrastructure as Code on Azure, the ARM. For the longest time, the native option for IaC on Azure was to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates: the Resource Manager itself is a deployment and management service on Azure. Terraform for Azure.

Azure

Azure Tools Software Review Resources

The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

JUNE 14, 2023

The exam tests knowledge of Cloudera Data Visualization, Cloudera Machine Learning, Cloudera Data Science Workbench, and Cloudera Data Warehouse, as well as SQL, Apache Nifi, Apache Hive, and other open source technologies. How to prepare: The Open CDS certification is an evaluation of a candidate’s skills and experience.

Big Data

Big Data Analytics Data eLearning

Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps

DevOps.com

JUNE 5, 2019

Many organizations use a combination of open so Many organizations use a combination of open source and commercial tools and Azure DevOps (formerly called VSTS) and an application lifecycle management (ALM) tool that includes features such as Azure pipelines.

Azure

Azure DevOps Open Source Tools

How We Shipped PostgreSQL 14 on Azure Within One Day of its Release

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

Azure Software Review Testing Open Source

How to benchmark performance of Citus and Postgres with HammerDB on Azure

The Citus Data

MARCH 12, 2022

So, in this post I’ll share the tools I built to make it easy to run benchmarks against Postgres—specifically against the Citus extension to Postgres running in a managed database service on Azure called Hyperscale (Citus) in Azure Database for PostgreSQL. million NOPM with larger Citus database clusters on Azure.

Azure

Azure Performance How To Off-The-Shelf

Azure DevOps Pipeline: All you need to know!

Openxcell

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Azure and DevOps both have been in demand, and there is no surprise how these technologies have evolved. Azure DevOps from Microsoft is a continuous delivery platform. You may swiftly deploy a wide range of languages on many platforms and in the cloud with Azure DevOps Services. Azure DevOps Pipeline.

Azure

Azure DevOps Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration

Azure Resource Provisioning with Terraform Using VS Code Devcontainer Box

Perficient

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Terraform is an IAC tool, used to automate various infrastructure tasks. It’s an open-source provisioning tool written in the Go language and created by HashiCorp. devcontainers/features/azure-cli:1": {}, "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/terraform:1": What Is Terraform? devcontainers/features/git:1": {}, "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/sshd:1":

Azure

Azure Resources Storage Disaster Recovery

Hire a Kubernetes DevOps: Azure & AWS

Mobilunity

MAY 18, 2021

While a container is a mini-virtual machine for simplified hosting and managing the life cycle of apps, Kubernetes is a container management tool developed by Google engineers, as mentioned in the official Kubernetes blog. Who Is Azure Kubernetes DevOps Expert and When They Are Needed? SELinux, and others.).

Azure

Azure AWS DevOps Recruiting

18 Green Software Tools and Metrics

Apiumhub

JANUARY 2, 2024

Companies and other organizations need green software tools to reduce, measure, and report their scope. Customer Carbon Footprint Tool One of the green software tools that allows you to monitor, quantify, assess, and predict the carbon emissions stemming from your utilization of AWS. According to the SOGS survey , 15.6%

Metrics

Metrics Tools Software Energy

Mastering Event-Driven Autoscaling in Kubernetes Environments Using KEDA

Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 25, 2024

KEDA is an open-source project that extends Kubernetes capabilities to provide event-driven autoscaling. Unlike traditional horizontal pod auto scalers that scale based on CPU or memory usage, KEDA reacts to events from various sources like Kafka, RabbitMQ , Azure Service Bus, AWS SQS, etc. What Is KEDA?

Azure

Azure Open Source AWS Cloud

Xpirit Innovation Day in Antwerp: March 2022

Xebia

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Experimenting with Chaos – Patrick, Casper and Rene During our innovation day, we wanted to set up some experiments with Azure Chaos Studio. Azure Chaos Studio is a new Azure product that is still in preview. Chaos studio can also inject chaos in to VM’s and Azure Kubernetes Service.

Innovation

Innovation Azure Microservices IoT

AutoCloud raises $4M to commercialize its OSS cloud visualization service

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

AutoCloud is the commercial side of the CloudGraph open source project. The hybrid open source (OSS) and commercial combination is an increasingly popular startup method of attacking markets. announced a $30 million raise for its commercial and open source approach to neural search, for a more early-stage example.

Cloud

Cloud Open Source Google Cloud Metrics

Demystifying MLOps: From Notebook to ML Application

Xebia

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Several common open source tools such as MLflow are discussed, but the same principles apply to other tooling you can find in the market. The most common open source tool that allows you to do this is MLflow. Most enterprise ML platforms (Vertex AI, Azure ML, Sagemaker) integrate with MLflow.

Applications

Applications Technical Review Software Review Azure

Sequoia India’s Surge backs healthtech startup RedBrick AI in $4.6M funding

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Delaware-headquartered SaaS startup, which has an Indian subsidiary in Pune, is solving that problem with its automated and semi-automated annotation tools. For annotating complex 3D medical images, it also has semi-automated tools. and Europe for marketing its tools.

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Artificial Intelligence Biotech 3D

Azure Classic vs. ARM VMs: It’s Time to Migrate

ParkMyCloud

JULY 21, 2020

We get requests from customers occasionally about whether ParkMyCloud can manage Microsoft Azure Classic vs. ARM VMs. Since Azure has already announced the deprecation of Azure classic resources – albeit not until March 2023 – you’ll find similar answers from other third-party services. Azure Classic vs. ARM VM Comparison.

Azure

Azure Storage Virtualization Resources

How to Run OWASP ZAP Security Tests in Azure DevOps Pipeline

Dzone - DevOps

JULY 19, 2021

Some of the open-source tools provide automated basic scanning of the website. ZAP is a popular security testing tool and open source. ZAP tool helps to find the vulnerabilities in the applications or API endpoints. What is OWASP ZAP?

Testing

Testing Azure Open Source DevOps

DevOps tools: Automation, Monitoring, CI/CD, and more

Altexsoft

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Understanding of tooling will help you set up the process for the DevOps team in the right way. In this article, we’ll discuss the categories of tools existing for DevOps and look at instruments for continuous delivery/integration, testing, monitoring, collaboration, code management, and more. What is DevOps: processes and practices.

DevOps

DevOps Tools Continuous Delivery Open Source

Replicate wants to take the pain out of running and hosting ML models

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The company was co-founded by Ben Firshman, who led open source product efforts at Docker, and Andreas Jansson, previously a machine learning engineer at Spotify. Enter Replicate, which offers a library of open source models that software developers can run with a few lines of code. So what sets Replicate apart?

Artificial Inteligence

Artificial Inteligence Machine Learning Generative AI Open Source

Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

Webinars

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InnerSource, a practice that brings open-source principles to internal software development within organizations

Webinars

Upbound nabs $60M to grow its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management project

Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco

Checkov 3.0: Upgraded Open-Source Infrastructure-as-Code Security

Logz.io Unveils Azure Open Source ELK Monitoring Solution

WhiteSource Tightens Code Scanning Tool Integration with Azure DevOps

All the Small Things: Azure CLI Leakage and Problematic Usage Patterns

Citus 11 for Postgres goes fully open source, with query from any node

Azure container Apps: The future of Microservices in Azure?

The Role of Open Source in Cloud Security: A Case Study with Terrascan by Tenable

12 data science certifications that will pay off

Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

5 ways to deploy your own large language model

Build Infrastructure as Code Efficiently With an Open Source Terraform Accelerator

One-Click Deploying EMQX MQTT Broker on Azure Using Terraform

Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIOs weigh where to place AI bets — and how to de-risk them

All you need to know about Azure DevOps!

Should you build or buy generative AI?

Which Is Best for Your MariaDB Cloud Migration: Azure or an Azure VM?

How to Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster on Azure

Streamline CI/CD with Azure DevOps Toolchains

Azure Synapse Analytics

MongoDB: Make a Cloud-native Switch with Azure Cosmos DB

Comparing IaC tools for Azure: Terraform and Bicep

The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

Pre-Commit Job Workflow in Azure DevOps

How We Shipped PostgreSQL 14 on Azure Within One Day of its Release

How to benchmark performance of Citus and Postgres with HammerDB on Azure

Azure DevOps Pipeline: All you need to know!

Azure Resource Provisioning with Terraform Using VS Code Devcontainer Box

Hire a Kubernetes DevOps: Azure & AWS

18 Green Software Tools and Metrics

Mastering Event-Driven Autoscaling in Kubernetes Environments Using KEDA

Xpirit Innovation Day in Antwerp: March 2022

AutoCloud raises $4M to commercialize its OSS cloud visualization service

Demystifying MLOps: From Notebook to ML Application

Sequoia India’s Surge backs healthtech startup RedBrick AI in $4.6M funding

Azure Classic vs. ARM VMs: It’s Time to Migrate

How to Run OWASP ZAP Security Tests in Azure DevOps Pipeline

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