Gartner predicts that by 2026, 80% of large software engineering organizations will have established platform engineering teams. But, some critics argue that Platform Engineering presents few new ideas, contending it's merely a rebranding of concepts that have been around for some time, with good marketing making it appear cool.
So divergent perspectives - lets take a look at this evolving domain and see how it will (supposedly) empower developers ...
GitHub Copilot is your AI pair programmer. It uses the OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, from within the editor.
Trained on billions of lines of code, GitHub Copilot turns natural language prompts into coding suggestions across dozens of languages.
I have written a hands-on-lab to try out GitHub Copilot.
Customers who have Enterprise Agreements (EA) with Microsoft are eligible to purchase a subscription offer that brings together Visual Studio standard subscriptions and GitHub Enterprise. It's the easy and economical way for Visual Studio subscribers to acquire GitHub Enterprise.
Announced at the Microsoft Build Conference was the general availability of Azure Container Apps.
This is a fully managed serverless container service for building and deploying modern apps at scale, and empowers developers to focus on the business logic of their apps rather than on cloud infrastructure management.
I have written a hands-on-lab to try out Azure Container Apps.
It was a pleasure to present 'Securing Applications' this week at Build UK. Furthermore, it was fantastic to see so many people at Microsoft campus - and to know we are now back doing in-person events after the recent difficult and disruptive times.
I have written up the content from the session.
I recently presented ‘Green Software Engineering’ at a community event. A couple of days later the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) released a study that highlighted climate change is widespread, rapid, and intensifying, and some trends are now irreversible. The United Nations called it a “code red for humanity” and a catastrophe can only be avoided if the world acts fast.
Hello! I’m a Microsoft UK Azure AppDev Specialist and below I’ll be sharing what I do and why I do it, as well as touch on the current AppDev trends I see and the themes that I’m frequently asked to cover.