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Innovation simply can’t wait. Not today, when rapid evolution and change are the baseline, the table stakes. Organizations are under constant pressure to ship software faster, make their operations more reliable, and scale everything efficiently. And they have to do all this while dealing with complex regulations, ongoing talent shortages, and ever-increasing technical complexity. In […]
As businesses like yours turn to AI to drive innovation, data has become the strategic lever for agility and growth. Yet for many organizations, the promise of AI remains out of reach because entrenched legacy data systems stand in the way of progress. These aging architectures, characterized by siloed data, technical debt, and a lack […]
It’s 2AM. You’re staring at a failed deployment pipeline, trying to figure out why your EKS cluster can’t find the right subnets. You’ve checked the variables, verified the outputs, and triple-checked your depends_on statements. Everything looks...
AWS has launched its first New Zealand Region with three Availability Zones, marking its 16th Region in Asia Pacific and enabling local data residency for New Zealand organizations.
In the fast-paced world of software, reaching 10 years is a testament to a project’s resilience, utility, and community strength. Half a decade ago, we celebrated Jaeger’s fifth anniversary, marveling at its growth from a nascent...
My LinkedIn feed was absolutely packed this week with pictures from the AWS Heroes Summit event in Seattle. It was heartwarming to see so many familiar faces and new Heroes coming together. For those not familiar with the AWS Heroes program, it’s a global community recognition initiative that honors individuals who make outstanding contributions to […]
For years, Bitnami has played a vital role in the open source and cloud-native community, making it easier for developers and operators to deploy popular applications with reliable, prebuilt container images and Helm charts. Countless teams have benefited from their work standardizing installation and updates for everything from WordPress to PostgreSQL. We want to acknowledge...
Kyverno 1.15 makes Kubernetes policy management more powerful, extensible, and user-friendly. We are thrilled to announce the release of Kyverno 1.15.0, continuing our mission to make policy management in Kubernetes environments more modular, performant, and user-friendly....
As OpenTelemetry adoption has exploded, so has the volume of telemetry data moving through modern observability pipelines. But despite collecting more logs, metrics, and traces than ever before, teams are still struggling to answer the most...
Software development has never been tidy, but the current landscape feels more chaotic than ever. Shannon Mason, chief strategy officer for Tempo, dives into why software engineering workflows remain chaotic and what teams should be doing to try and restore application development order. Developers today face a relentless push to innovate while keeping complex codebases […]
Kumar Chivukula, co-founder and CEO of Codeglide.ai (a subsidiary of Upsera), explains why the rise of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is reshaping how enterprises connect APIs to large language models. For years, APIs have served as the backbone of data access, but they were never designed with AI in mind. They lack memory, context, […]
In the era of AI copilots and code generation tools productivity is skyrocketing, but so is the risk of insecure, untested, or messy code slipping into production. How do you ensure it doesn’t introduce vulnerabilities, bugs, or bad practices? A widely adopted tool to help address these concerns is SonarQube. It provides a rich set...
AI workloads are complex, and unmanaged complexity kills velocity. Your architecture is the key to mastering it. As generative AI (GenAI) becomes foundational to modern software products, developers face a chaotic new reality, juggling different APIs...
M8i and M8i-flex instances powered by Intel Xeon processors offer up to 15% better price performance, 20% higher performance, and 2.5 times more memory throughput compared to previous generations.
In today’s fast-paced world of software development, product teams are expected to move quickly: building features, shipping updates, and reacting to user needs in real-time. But moving fast should never mean compromising on quality or security. Thanks to modern tooling, developers can now maintain high standards while accelerating delivery. In a previous article, we explored...
In today’s fast-paced world of software development, product teams are expected to move quickly: building features, shipping updates, and reacting to user needs in real-time. But moving fast should never mean compromising on quality or security. Thanks to modern tooling, developers can now maintain high standards while accelerating delivery. In a previous article, we explored...
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Metal3.io as a CNCF incubating project. Metal3.io joins a growing ecosystem of technologies tackling real-world challenges at the edge of cloud native infrastructure. What is Metal3.io?...
Ensuring the reliability, safety, and performance of AI agents is critical. That’s where agent observability comes in. The post Agent Factory: Top 5 agent observability best practices for reliable AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
In recent years, the software industry has seen a strong shift toward enabling and supporting Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads. While a variety of high level tools like Large Language Models (LLMs) already exist to support generic...
We're excited to announce a major evolution in how we deliver Docker Desktop updates to you. Starting with Docker Desktop release 4.45.0 on 28 August we're moving to releases every two weeks, with the goal of reaching weekly releases by the end of 2025. Why We're Making This Change You've told us you want faster...
Broadcom today at the VMware Explore 2025 conference unfurled a set of developer services for the instance of Kubernetes it has embedded into its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform that includes the Argo continuous delivery (CD) platform. At the same time, Broadcom expanded its alliance with Canonical to include enterprise-grade support for instances of VCF […]
Amazon Prime Day 2025 achieved record-breaking sales with enhanced AI shopping features, while AWS infrastructure handled unprecedented volumes of data—including 1.7 trillion Lambda invocations per day, DynamoDB peaking at 151 million requests per second, and a 77% increase in Fargate container tasks—showcasing the massive scalability required to power the four-day shopping event.
The job of a modern software professional has changed. It now seems to include everyone else’s. Overnight, developers, security professionals and DevOps engineers have been asked to become cloud architects, AI whisperers, security sentinels and compliance officers. This isn’t just “shifting left.” It’s a total gravitational collapse where the entire business—its innovation, its revenue, its […]
Scientific innovation speeds up with Azure’s cloud and NVIDIA’s GPUs—see how researchers are transforming discovery. The post Transforming scientific discovery with Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) marks a turning point for anyone building, selling, or maintaining digital products. Whether it’s enterprise software, consumer apps, IoT devices, or embedded systems, the CRA sets rigorous cybersecurity requirements that apply throughout a product’s entire lifecycle, from design and development to deployment, maintenance, and secure decommissioning. At its […]
In this article, we’ll look at how you can use Envoy Gateway, an Envoy project open source solution, together with Istio when running in Ambient mode. This allows you to easily leverage the power of Envoy’s...
Enterprise software development has long been plagued by a fundamental disconnect: the gap between architectural intent and actual implementation. Static diagrams gather dust while code evolves, compliance reviews create month-long bottlenecks, and architectural decisions become lost knowledge scattered across documentation that nobody reads. Morgan Stanley felt this pain acutely until they decided to solve it […]
On May 29th, 2025, I wrapped up my mentorship with Prometheus through the Linux Foundation Mentorship Program. My project focused on understanding how Prometheus handles OpenTelemetry resource attributes and how that experience could be improved for...
As I was preparing for this week’s roundup, I couldn’t help but reflect on how database technology has evolved over the past decade. It’s fascinating to see how architectural decisions made years ago continue to shape the way we build modern applications. This week brings a special milestone that perfectly captures this evolution in cloud […]
Over the last 14-plus years of my journey through DevOps, I’ve had the good fortune to meet some of the smartest, most generous, most forward-thinking people in our industry. It’s one of the things I’m most thankful for—the friendships and shared learning that come from being part of a community that is always pushing boundaries. […]
At Microsoft, secure design begins at the foundation of our computing stack—the silicon level—and extends through every layer of the cloud. The post Protecting Azure Infrastructure from silicon to systems appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
TL;DR: GenAI can help you write conference abstracts, but if you use it without injecting your own curiosity and humanness, reviewers can tell. This post walks through my personal process for co-writing abstracts with GenAI in...
From Linux kernel code to AI at scale, discover Microsoft’s open source evolution and impact. The post Microsoft’s open source journey: From 20,000 lines of Linux code to AI at global scale appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
When I first read the recent article from CISA titled “Tackling the National Gap in Software Understanding,” I had the same reaction I imagine many of you did: Well, of course this is necessary. Who in their right mind doesn’t want better visibility into the software used in our most mission-critical systems? But then I […]
Abstract The growing complexity of modern software development and the increasing speed at which organizations need to deliver software have led to the widespread adoption of DevOps practices, particularly continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. These pipelines enable rapid development and deployment cycles; however, they also introduce significant security risks that must be addressed...