The Cloudcast

Reviewing Microsoft Insight & GitHub Universe

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In October and November, Microsoft hosted the GitHub Universe and Ignite 2021 conferences, focused on Developers and Cloud Computing. We review the important announcements and analyze the future directions for Azure, GitHub, etc

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Azure - Bigger Announcements 

  • Azure OpenAI Service - access to GPT-3 
  • Azure Cognitive Service for Language
  • Azure Cosmos DB 
  • Azure Managed Instance of Apache Cassandra
  • Azure Synapse Analytics 
  • Azure Container Apps (preview) 
  • Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes
  • (Java EE) Oracle Weblogic  on Azure Kubernetes Service. 
  • (Java EE) Websphere Liberty on Kubernetes/OpenShift
  • Enhancements to Azure DevOps (see GitHub)

GitHub - Bigger Announcements

  • Improved CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions
  • Improvements to GitHub Codespaces
  • Custom repository roles (security)
  • Improved “Issues” and “Discussions”

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