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What is the difference between Azure Data Lake storage Gen2 and Blob storage?

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Blob storage are two cloud storage solutions offered by Microsoft Azure. While both solutions are designed to store and manage large amounts of data, there are several key differences between them. This article will explain the differences and help you choose the right solution for your cloud data management needs.

SRE Vs. DevOps: A Simple Breakdown Of The Differences

You know this already. Regardless of your size, you must keep up with technological developments in your industry — and, increasingly, in other industries, even those that seem unrelated. Embracing disruption can enable you to increase your market share, revenue, and profit margins. Delegating some development and operations responsibilities to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experts allows developers to innovate and create new solutions faster.

Infrastructure metrics expanded to longer time frames

Understanding your systems’ status is essential for ensuring the reliability and stability of your applications and services. Without full awareness of what’s going on within your infrastructure, it can be difficult to manage solvable issues and to achieve reachable goals. Besides, it wouldn’t make much sense to run an app or service such as an e-store while ignoring what’s actually happening with it. How can you make any decisions that way?

Demo Den: Open DevOps, Security in Jira (Feb 2023)

Nupur Aggarwal, Product Designer - Open DevOps, walks through Jira Software’s latest DevSecOps capability, a new security triaging ritual to help teams better stay on top of security risks within their code. Available as part of an early access program, Open DevOps brings vulnerabilities into the context of developer sprints, allowing security and development to collaborate better together.

From model-centric to data-centric MLOps

MLOps (short for machine learning operations) is slowly evolving into an independent approach to the machine learning lifecycle that includes all steps – from data gathering to governance and monitoring. It will become a standard as artificial intelligence is moving towards becoming part of everyday business, rather than an innovative activity.

GitHub Actions for Azure

This post was written by guest author, Nahla Davies. Nahla has been in the software space since 2010 and a technical writer since 2019. She previously served as a lead programmer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients include Samsung, Time Warner, Netflix, and Sony. Microsoft Azure is widely popular among developers and across organizations because it’s scalable, flexible, and customizable.

Demo Den: Open DevOps, Progressive Delivery (Feb 2023)

n this demo, Andrew Pankevicius, Sr Product Manager - Open DevOps, walks through Open DevOps' Progressive Delivery capability. With Jira Software’s updates to the Releases Hub, Atlassian helps multidisciplinary software teams plan, track, and ship progressively, together. The features showcased in this video are available to all Jira Software cloud users.