5 Highlights Thursday | 9th Jan 2025

Welcome to the first new year ?????? 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. Leveraging Cloud Native Infra For Your Intelligent Apps

Join Adi Stein , Moria Dror on their Journey to GenAI. Thursday 09 January 2025, 10:00?–?11:15?am (GMT). In this session you will learn deploying AI-enabled applications involves an application or microservice interacting with a LLM inferencing endpoint. Microservices architectures and a cloud native approach are ideal for hosting your intelligent apps. This session demonstrates how you can use Kubernetes and cloud-native tools to reduce operational overhead in building and running intelligent apps.

2. Microsoft New AI for Developers page

Check out the new AI for Developers page. It's packed with free GitHub courses on building apps, machine learning, and mastering #GitHub #Copilot for paired programming. Learn your way and skill up for what's next in #AI.

3. Announcing a free GitHub Copilot for VS Code

Did you hear the news? You can now use #GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code…for free! Get details about the new Copilot Free plan and add #Copilot to your developer toolbox. #VSCode #AI

4. Deploy and manage application with GitHub Copilot for Azure and AKS

The new GitHub Copilot Hooks for the AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) VSCode Extension introduce a powerful feature set aimed at enhancing the developer experience and improving productivity when working with Kubernetes on Azure.

5. Overview of Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence with demo

This video offers security analysts an in-depth look at Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI), showcasing its integration within Microsoft's comprehensive security portfolio. You'll see demonstrations of its key benefits and functions, along with insights into how Security Copilot enhances MDTI and Threat Analytics.

You can complement this edition of 5 Highlights Thursday with our MEA Developer Channel on YouTube where we have weekly interviews and learning material on Microsoft Azure, and much more.

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Have a wonderful Thursday :)

Taswar