PoC, PoT, Prototype, MVP, Pilot - what do they all mean? What is the difference between them, and when should you use them?

Today, we are going to take a look at a technical Cloud Product Development lifecycle - in my eyes, understanding these terminologies is key to determining:

• What kind of resources (i.e., both technological and human) do you need to dedicate to a product?
• Where should you align lifecycle management with your application or service?
• How likely is it that the the product makes a good market fit or solves an issue?
• Keep your product lean to avoid wasting the wrong resources at the wrong time
• Shift to a product-based mindset
• Focus on innovation and early feedback loops

And, of course - what to expect when people start using these words, often thrown together in a conversation and sometimes even put in writing in Statement of Works and Requests for Proposals.

Pre-commit hooks are automated scripts or checks running before developers commit code to a repository. They are particularly useful in the context of infrastructure, such as code (IaC) development, when working with Terraform.

These hooks serve as an early defense against common issues, ensuring code quality and consistency before changes are committed to version control.

Today, we are going to discuss precommit with GitHub Codespaces.

Azure Managed Redis announced during Microsoft Ignite 2024 in Public Preview.

This is a new, fully-managed, first-party Redis offering in Microsoft Azure. Azure Managed Redis is available today in public preview. Microsoft Azure is the first major cloud service provider to offer customers a licensed, multi-tiered Redis service.

This article will show you how to deploy an Azure Managed Redis instance using Bicep. Bicep is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) for deploying Azure resources declaratively. It aims to drastically simplify the authoring experience with a cleaner syntax and better support for modularity and code reuse.

Azure Communication Services brings rich communication APIs to all of your apps across any device on any platform, using the same reliable and secure infrastructure that powers Microsoft Teams.

Today, we will explore using Email as part of Azure Communication Services, using the REST API and PowerShell to send an email using a User Assigned Managed Identity.

When developing a Python application that interacts with Azure OpenAI, you may want to authenticate with an API key for testing, however in Production, you should use Managed Identities within Microsoft Azure.

In this article, we will look at how to authenticate with Azure OpenAI using an API key in Python for local development, then using an environment variable switch to authenticating using managed Identities.