5 Highlights Thursday | 26th Dec 2024

Welcome to the ????????boxing week dose of 5 Highlights Thursday. Where I cover list of Azure/Development/AI information and links that you may find helpful in your Azure journey. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy such sharing.

1. Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Now automatically integrated into VS Code, all of you have access to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month, simply by signing in with your personal GitHub account. Or by creating a new one. And just last week, we passed the mark of 150M developers on GitHub. ??

2. Sip and Sync with Azure - Coming in 2025

Coming in 2025 Priyanka Vergadia and team will be discussing Azure, Cloud Architectures, Developer Best Practices and Real World Business Solutions

3. Improvements in Container’s Posture Management

In this episode of Defender for Cloud in the Field, Tomer Spivak joins Yuri Diogenes to talk about the new improvements in Container's security posture capabilities available in Defender CSPM and Defender for Containers. Tomer explains the different use case scenarios and how the security graph was enriched with more insights. Tomer also demonstrates the use of Security Explorer to perform queries that can easily access these new security insights for containers.

4. Top .NET Blogs Posts of 2024

Let's take a look back at the top .NET blogs from 2024 from exciting announcements, deep dives on new features, and so much more.

5. Resiliency Best Practices You Need For your Blob Storage Data

Maintaining Resiliency in Azure Blob Storage: A Guide to Best Practices Azure Blob Storage is a cornerstone of modern cloud storage, offering scalable and secure solutions for unstructured data.

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Taswar