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In 2005, on the back of Steve Ballmer’s famous “Developer! Developer! Developer!” speech, a group of community-focused people got together to organise a conference – by software developers, for software developers. Fifteen years later, DDD 2020 is set to break tradition – just a little bit – by going completely virtual....Read more

We’re now arriving at the end of 2020, so as is tradition we’re taking a look back at the articles that were most popular by you, the TechNet UK audience! It’s great to see a mix of names amongst the authors, complimenting a wide variety of different topics....Read more

Azure Private Link was made generally available on Feb 2020. Since then, it has made numerous Azure PaaS services more secured. By eliminating data transfer via the public internet, Azure Private Link helps reduce your exposure to cyber security attacks significantly....Read more

Azure has a feature called Reserved Instances (or RI). RI allow you to commit to a usage pattern over a certain time period, a year or 3 years for example. In this article we will cover Virtual Machine RIs, but RIs can be purchased for many different Azure services....Read more

The Cloud Adoption Framework is all about consolidating and sharing best practices from Microsoft employees, partners, and customers....Read more

Serverless models abstract the underlying compute infrastructure, allowing developers to focus on business logic without needing extensive startup or maintenance cost to set up the solution....Read more

In Part 1 we explored how a PAYG mindset applied to your capacity planning approach can bring real financial benefits. In Part 2 we will continue our discussions into areas more traditionally governed by operations....Read more

Lobe is a free client app that helps any user to bring machine learning ideas into reality. Just show it examples of what you want it to learn, and it automatically trains a custom machine learning model that can be shipped to your app....Read more

It’s been a busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go! Just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from October 2020 in one place....Read more

One of the great benefits of adopting cloud is often quoted as “scalability”. People tend to automatically think in terms of having the ability to grow, but it also enables you to shrink....Read more

The .NET developer platform has an amazing community of developers utilising the languages and framework to develop business applications at the core of their organisations. With the framework being Open Source and Microsoft’s developer tooling, it’s no wonder there are millions of developers out there utilising it....Read more