Introduction: Google’s Gemini API represents a significant leap in multimodal AI capabilities. Launched in December 2023, Gemini models are natively multimodal, trained from the ground up to understand and generate text, images, audio, and video. With context windows up to 2 million tokens and native Google Search grounding, Gemini offers unique capabilities for building sophisticated […]
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Azure: Achieving Higher Reliability with AKS and Essential Tools
In the fast-paced world of technology, ensuring the reliability of services is paramount for businesses to thrive. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has emerged as a discipline that combines software engineering and systems administration to create scalable and highly reliable software systems. In the Azure cloud environment, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) plays a pivotal role in […]
Read more →.NET 9: A Solutions Architect’s Guide to the Modern .NET Ecosystem
After two decades of building enterprise applications on the Microsoft stack, I’ve witnessed every major evolution of .NET—from the original Framework through the tumultuous transition to Core, and now to the unified platform we have today. .NET 9, released in November 2024, represents the maturation of a platform that has finally delivered on the promise […]
Read more →Deploying LLM Applications on Cloud Run: A Complete Guide
Last year, I deployed our first LLM application to Cloud Run. What should have taken hours took three days. Cold starts killed our latency. Memory limits caused crashes. Timeouts broke long-running requests. After deploying 20+ LLM applications to Cloud Run, I’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. Here’s the complete guide. Figure 1: Cloud Run […]
Read more →GitHub Copilot Chat Transforms Developer Productivity: AI-Assisted Development Patterns for Enterprise Teams
Introduction: GitHub Copilot Chat, released in late 2023, represents a paradigm shift in AI-assisted development by bringing conversational AI directly into the IDE. Unlike the original Copilot’s inline suggestions, Copilot Chat enables developers to ask questions, request explanations, generate tests, and refactor code through natural language dialogue. After integrating Copilot Chat into my daily workflow […]
Read more →.NET 8 and C# 12: A Deep Dive into Native AOT, Primary Constructors, and Blazor United
Introduction: .NET 8 represents a landmark release in Microsoft’s development platform evolution, bringing Native AOT to mainstream scenarios, unifying Blazor’s rendering models, and introducing C# 12’s powerful new features. Released in November 2023, this Long-Term Support version delivers significant performance improvements, reduced memory footprint, and enhanced developer productivity. After migrating several enterprise applications to .NET […]
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