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Developers can connect Lambda functions, DynamoDB tables, and other resources to create sophisticated real-time applications with features like data transformation, persistent storage, and validation.
Strong identity and access management is a key component of a zero trust architecture for cloud native applications. Keycloak is well-known for its single-sign-on capabilities based on open standards. It provides you all the building blocks...
Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025, made available in preview in 2024, will become generally available as a subscription service on July 1st, 2025. One of thekey updatesin the latest release of Windows Server 2025 isthe addition ofhybrid and multicloud capabilities,alignedwithAzureβsadaptive cloudapproach.With hotpatching,we are taking what was previously an Azure-only capability and now making it available The post...
We are thrilled to announce the launch of GPT-image-1, the latest and most advanced image generation model, now available on Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. The post Unveiling GPT-image-1: Rising to new heights with image generation in Azure AI Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Itβs no longer a question of if AI will change engineersβ roles β it already has. The real question is, how can engineers amplify their impact in this new reality?Exploring what's next for engineers.
Nathen Harvey, DORA Lead at Google Cloud, delves into how generative AI is rapidly reshaping the software development landscape, presenting both exciting opportunities and complex challenges. Harvey reflects on his own journey, from early web operations and his time at Chef to leading the DORA program after its acquisition by Google. DORA (DevOps Research and [β¦]
Showcasing real-world implementations and community-driven advancements in open source observability SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. β April 23, 2025 β The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the full...
Endor Labs today added a set of artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its platform, specifically trained to identify security defects in applications and suggest remediations. Fresh off raising an additional $93 million in funding, Endor Labs founder and CEO Varun Badhwar said going beyond simply identifying vulnerabilities in code, these AI agents are trained to [β¦]
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of NATS. NATS is an open source project made by Synadia Communications for secure always-on messaging for a variety of digital formats and clients. With...
Passes with flying colors Istioβs ambient mode splits the service mesh into two distinct layers: Layer 7 processing (the βwaypoint proxyβ), which remains powered by the traditional Envoy proxy; and a secure overlay (the βzero-trust tunnelβ...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming pivotal across industries and the app development market is no exception. Every app in the world is on track to be reinvented with AI. Even the most basic, single-purpose apps in Windows, such as Notepad and Paint, are now infused with AI to enhance productivity. These longtime staples, once just [β¦]
If youβd like to learn more about how leaders at the forefront of data, AI, and cloud technologies are leading through the platform shift, please listen, follow, and subscribe to Leading the Shift. The post 5 insights from the front lines of the platform shift appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
New event will convene observability leaders, developers, and end users to advance open source observability tools and practices SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2025 β The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud...
At the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), we celebrate organizations that turn cloud native technologies into real-world impact. AuthZed, a CNCF Silver member, is one such storyβa company built from the ground up on open source,...
AI agents are moving fastβfrom labs to real-world apps. And as they go from generating text to taking real action, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has emerged as the de facto standard for connecting agents to tools. MCP is exciting. Itβs simple, modular, and built on web-native principles. We believe it has the potential to...
Kubernetes is exceedingly powerful for orchestrating containerized applications at scale. But without proper monitoring and observabilityβespecially in self-managed infrastructureβit can quickly become a security disaster waiting to happen. This is not due to inherent flaws in...
AWS introduces new EC2 instance families (C8gd, M8gd, R8gd) powered by Graviton4 processors with NVMe SSD storage, offering up to 30% better performance, 3x more vCPUs and memory, and up to 11.4TB local storage compared to Graviton3-based predecessors.
Last week, we had the AWS Summit Amsterdam, one of the global Amazon Web Services (AWS) events that offers you the opportunity to learn from technical and industry leaders, and meet AWS experts and like-minded professionals. In particular, most AWS Summits have Developer and Community Lounges in their exhibition halls. A photo taken by Thembile [β¦]
Running AI inference workloads on Kubernetes has some unique characteristics and challenges, and the Gateway API Inference Extension project aims to solve some of those challenges. I recently wrote about these new capabilities in the kgateway...
Want a hands-on way to explore Kubernetes and ClickHouseβwithout spinning up cloud VMs? In this post, weβll build a home-lab cluster of Raspberry Pi 5 boards that mimics a high-availability setup. Whether youβre a cloud-native developer...
AI hallucinations β the occasional tendency of large language models to respond to prompts with incorrect, inaccurate or made-up answers β have been an ongoing concern as the enterprise adoption of generative AI has accelerated over the past two years. Theyβre also an issue for developersusingAI-based tools when building code, including generating names of packages [β¦]
Symbiotic Security, this week, launched a tool that leverages a large language model (LLM) specifically trained to identify vulnerabilities via a chatbot as application developers write code.
In a data-driven world, you need an efficient way to harness your data for actionable insights and gain a competitive edge. Azure Databricks is a powerful, unified analytics and AI platform that streamlines the entire AI project lifecycleβfrom rapid experimentation to production deployment. By consolidating data ingestion, transformation, and model tracking in one environment, Azure The post Upskill your team on Azure...
We are thrilled to announce the availability of the latest iterations in the o* reasoning series:o3ando4-minimodels on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service. The post o3 and o4-mini: Unlock enterprise agent workflows with next-level reasoning AI with Azure AI Foundry and GitHub appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Strong TOC participation at this yearβs KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London enabled in-person discussions and strategic planning for CNCF project technical priorities...
Focusing on DevEx through strategic CI/CD optimization can transform the development lifecycle and significantly improve developer productivity.
We are announcing the upcoming deprecation of QEMU as a virtualization option for Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs. After serving as our legacy virtualization solution during the early transition to Apple Silicon, QEMU will be fully deprecated 90 days from today, on July 14, 2025. This deprecation does not affect QEMU's role in emulating...
Solving Cloud Native Operation Challenges with AI Agents Oh no! Your application is unreachable, buried under multiple connection hopsβhow do you pinpoint the broken link? How do you generate an alert or bug report from Prometheus...
Cloud native infrastructure continues to scale, and with it, so does operational overhead. Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern platforms, but as cluster sizes grow past 100 nodes and thousands of workloads, the operational load...
Cloud native infrastructure continues to scale, and with it, so does operational overhead. Kubernetes has become the backbone of modern platforms, but as cluster sizes grow past 100 nodes and thousands of workloads, the operational load...
As enterprises run ever-more-complex workloads on Kubernetes, theyβre facing a new set of challenges: how to ensure security requirements are met, budgets are deployed efficiently and operational complexity is, well, not as complex. Many are finding...
As enterprises run ever-more-complex workloads on Kubernetes, theyβre facing a new set of challenges: how to ensure security requirements are met, budgets are deployed efficiently and operational complexity is, well, not as complex. Many are finding...
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showcased how the local community creates opportunities for collective growth and inclusion. Last weekβs launches Announcing up [β¦]
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit 2025 season launched this week, starting with the Paris Summit. These free events bring together the global cloud computing community for learning and collaboration. AWS Community Day Romania, held on April 11th, showcased how the local community creates opportunities for collective growth and inclusion. Last weekβs launches Announcing up [β¦]
ZenCoder has updated its artificial intelligence (AI) platform for writing and testing code to provide integration with third-party DevOps tools such as JIRA, GitHub, GitLab and Sentry in addition to tighter coupling with VS Code and JetBrains integrated development environments. At the same time, the company has added a βCoffee Modeβ capability that now allows [β¦]