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Generative AI Capabilities for Logic Apps Standard with Azure OpenAI and AI Search Connectors
Microsoft has announced that the Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Search connectors for Logic Apps Standard are now generally available, following an earlier public preview. These connectors are fully integrated into Azure Integration Services, providing developers with powerful tools to enhance application functionality with advanced AI capabilities.
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.NET Inline C# Action Feature in Logic Apps: More Flexibility and Control for Developers
Microsoft has announced a significant enhancement to its Azure Logic Apps service by introducing .NET C# inline code execution. This new feature enables developers to call C# code directly within their workflows, providing greater flexibility and control over custom logic and complex operations.
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Amazon EC2 U7i Instances: 896 vCPUs and up to 32 TiB of Memory for High Memory Workloads
AWS recently announced the general availability of high-memory U7i instances. Simplifying the vertical scaling of large workloads, these new U7i instances are designed to support large, in-memory databases such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and SQL Server.
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Increased Popularity of Artist Platform Cara Led to Substantial Vercel Functions Expenses
Cara's web and mobile app, a platform for artists, combines the experience of Instagram and X. It provides a space for users to showcase their portfolios and share updates on their feeds. The app's serverless backend, powered by Vercel Functions, recently incurred a significant cost of $ 98,280 due to a sudden surge in usage.
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Azure Cosmos DB Integration with Vercel Now Generally Available
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Vercel and Azure Cosmos DB integration, following the public preview released about one year ago. Sajeetharan Sinnathurai, a product manager at Microsoft, announced upcoming features, including an AI template with integrated vector search capabilities, responding to community feedback.
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The Impact of Cloudflare's Sudden Service Change at an Online Casino
Recently, an online casino website experienced a severe disruption when Cloudflare abruptly disabled its services. Robin Dev, a systems operations engineer at the casino, provided a detailed account of the sequence of events in a blog post, shedding light on the extent of the disruption and its aftermath.
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Introducing New SKUs for Microsoft Azure Bastion: Developer and Premium Options Now Available
Microsoft recently announced new SKUs for its Azure Bastion service: a Developer SKU that is now generally available (GA) after its public preview last year and a premium SKU being rolled out in a public preview.
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Azure Eliminates Inter-Availability Zone Data Transfer Fees to Encourage Deployment Best Practices
Microsoft has recently announced that Azure will no longer charge for data transfer across availability zones whether using private or public IPs. This change will facilitate the development of resilient multi-AZ applications without the concern of additional data transfer expenses.
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Local Emulator for Azure Event Hubs in Preview: Offering Developers a Local Development Experience
Microsoft recently launched the local emulator's preview release for Azure Event Hubs. This emulator is designed to give developers a local development experience for Azure Event Hubs, allowing them to develop and test code against the services in isolation.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Munich: Learn from German Automotive, Banking, and TelCo Software Practitioners
InfoQ Dev Summit Munich is a two-day in-person software development conference for senior software engineers, architects, and team leaders in the Bavarian capital on September 26th and 27th. The sessions will cover critical topics such as generative AI and platform engineering, with use cases from the German automotive, banking, and telecommunication industries.
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Cloudflare AI Gateway Now Generally Available
Cloudflare has recently announced that AI Gateway is now generally available. Described as a unified interface for managing and scaling generative AI workloads, AI Gateway allows developers to gain visibility and control over AI applications.
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General Availability of Deployment Stacks for Azure Resource Management Replacing Blueprints
Deployment Stacks, a new resource type for managing a collection of Azure resources as a single unit, is now generally available (GA). It allows for faster updates and deletions while also preventing unwanted changes to those resources.
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Microsoft Launches Preview of Arm-Based Azure VMs Featuring Cobalt 100 Processor
The new Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machine (VM), based on Microsoft’s custom silicon series announced in November 2023, is currently in preview.
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Fullstack TypeScript on AWS: Amplify Gen 2 Now Generally Available
AWS has recently announced the general availability of Amplify Gen 2, a “code-first developer experience” that enables TypeScript and JavaScript developers to build and deploy fullstack applications on AWS.
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Public Preview of Azure Compute Fleet: Streamlining Azure Compute Capacity Management
At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Compute Fleet, a new service that streamlines the provisioning and management of Azure compute capacity across different virtual machine (VM) types, availability zones, and pricing models to achieve desired scale, performance, and cost.