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- Use AI to answer compliance questionnaires 06 August 2024Can we use off-the-shelf AI to fill in compliance questionnaires, such as security, business continuity and the like? Here we are using off-the-shelf AI tools and a bit of code to try to answer questionnaires by feeding in our own answers from the past. The results are pretty good and this is easy enough to do that you should probably give it a go filling in these kinds of things is part of your job.
- Using AI to reason about text 31 May 2024A lot of the hype about AI is around using Ais to write text - but the results are often underwhelming in practice. A much more immediate use case for many organisations is to use Large Language Models (LLMs) to read and reason about text.
- Testing with PlayWright 13 May 2024PlayWright allows you to write tests in a way that is more intuitive and easier to maintain than traditional testing frameworks. In this TechTalk, NewOrbit's Damian Fibuch and Nick Murphy discuss PlayWright with the rest of the dev-team.
- Better search results with AI-based search 26 April 2024Revolutionize your search experience with AI - Discover how NewOrbit’s implementation of Azure AI Search’s Vector capabilities enhances user intent recognition, transcending traditional keyword matching.
- One way expensive lesson from Malware scanning in Defender for Storage 11 April 2024A cautionary tale of how we got a £400 bill from Microsoft Defender for Storage and how you can avoid the same fate.
- The Business Analysis Toolbox – learning with Lego 20 March 2024Over the years I’ve worked on some projects where teams understand the *what* and focus on the *how*, but don’t always give the *why* the full attention that it deserves. Effectively there can be a gap in understanding and communicating **outcomes**, not just “requirements”. So I created a training activity to address that gap. And I made it into a game. Using Lego.
- A Dev's Initial Experience Using GitHub Copilot 08 January 2024A Dev's Initial Experience Using GitHub Copilot - Is It Effective?
- Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023 04 January 2024Microsoft's 2023 Digital Defense Report sheds light on the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity, emphasizing the importance of proactive measures, back-to-basics security practices, and the impact of AI in safeguarding our digital future
- We are not an AI Company 02 January 2024We are not an AI company is a sentiment we often hear at NewOrbit. The important question is - will your competitors take the same view? In this article we share some of what we have learnt and give you some concrete questions to kick-start your thinking.
- Azure Cognitive Services Anomaly Detector 10 November 2023Azure Cognitive Services Anomaly Detector - Univariate Anomaly Detection
- As a Partner, how do I work with other Partners on the same Customer? 04 September 2023Multiple Azure Cloud Solution Providers can provide Azure to the same Customer at the same time. This can cause some concerns until you understand how it works.
- Cloud Solution Providers and Guest and Member Users 29 August 2023When should Cloud Solution Providers use Guest Users? When should they use Member users? And what can they do with this access?
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the JavaScript 23 August 2023Brace for the unexpected! JavaScript's intriguing twists often leave us pondering, "Why and how?" 🤯 This video lecture is your compass, guiding you to unravel JavaScript's enigmatic layers.
- Azure Lighthouse Access for Cloud Solution Providers 21 August 2023How do Cloud Solution Providers use Lighthouse to access Azure Subscriptions? What does this mean for Customers?
- The current state of play with Application Insights and Open Telemetry 01 August 2023The current state of Open Telemetry with Application Insights
- Granular Delegated Access Privileges - GDAP 31 July 2023How does GDAP work in the context of an Azure Cloud Solution Provider? What is it useful for?
- Cloud Solution Provider Access via Foreign Principal 24 July 2023How do Cloud Solution Providers use Foreign Principals to access Azure Subscriptions?
- What does working with an Azure Cloud Solution Provider mean for me as a Customer? 17 July 2023As a Customer, what does it mean to buy Azure from a Cloud Solution Provider? How do I control access to my environment?
- Azure - Cloud Solution Providers (CSP) explained 10 July 2023How do Cloud Solution Providers fit into the Azure picture?
- Azure - Tenants vs Subscriptions demystified 03 July 2023The difference between Tenants and Subscriptions in Azure causes a lot of confusion. This post explains the difference and how they work together.
- Minimum Recommended Practice for PaaS Security - 2023 26 May 2023We have updated our Minimum Recommended Practice for Azure PaaS security for 2023
- Persisting your React Query cache in local storage 24 March 2023How we implemented simple frontend persistence using React Query.
- Swiss army knife of frontend API calls – React Query as server state management solution 31 January 2023Short case study of how we boosted one of our client's frontend project performance by utilising caching library.
- Azure SQL Failover Setup 01 December 2022Configure a replica of an Azure SQL database in another region to protect you from failures.
- CosmosDB Partition Key Lessons 23 November 2022The importance of getting your CosmosDB partition key right - how we got it wrong, what happened, and how we fixed it.
- CosmosDB Backup options 10 May 2022Backup options for your Azure CosmosDB
- Blob Storage Client-Side Encryption 06 April 2022Transparently encrypt blobs in Azure Blob Storage at the Application level with client-side encryption.
- Spend less on Azure 24 March 2022It is estimated that 30% of cloud spend is wasted. How do you avoid wasting 30% of your Azure spend? This talk takes you through the approach NewOrbit takes to analyse and optimise Azure costs.
- Designing for scale in the cloud 101 20 February 202215 minutes to teach two tips on how to improve scale and resilience in the cloud.
- Migrate to the Cloud 21 October 2021How do you best migrate to the Cloud? It's a different beast and requires a different approach.
- How Enabling a Health Check on our Azure App Service Caused >30s Response Times 07 April 2021Azure App Service, Docker, TLS and Health Check do not play nicely together
- Log Analytics to the rescue 17 March 2021I love Application Insights, but sometimes you need to go a bit deeper
- Using Markdown Securely 10 March 2021Markdown is a simple solution for writing and maintaining rich text but it's security credentials aren't all that
- Azure SQL Private End Points with Pulumi 16 February 2021Configure Private End Points on Azure SQL Server with Pulumi
- Secure your Web App in Azure at DDD14 16 October 2019An overview of how to secure Azure Web Apps, touching on virtual networks, encryption, key vault and monitoring.
- AI will fundamentally change how we build software 14 August 2019AI will change how we think about, design and build software. It's a revolution on par with the move to web.
- Getting Agility/agility back into your business 03 July 2019How NewOrbit can help businesses get back their agility.
- Find SELECT N+1 with Application Insights 20 May 2019With ORMs it's very easy to write code that calls SQL many times to serve a single web requests, and it can be hard to find it. Application Insights can help.
- GDPR for Software and how Azure can help 25 June 2018A video recording we made with Microsoft about how GDPR applies to Software development and how Azure can help.
- Securing your web app in Azure 29 April 2018A video overview of some of the Azure technologies that you can use to better protect your web applications in Azure - all depending on your required security level, of course.
- GDPR for People who own Software 09 October 2017This post is for the people who are responsible for the business side of owning software, people who own or are responsible for the intellectual property in software - the people who have to worry about business risk, contracts, sales and so on.
- GDPR for Operations 08 October 2017GDPR advice for the people who are responsible for hosting and managing software.
- GDPR for Software Designers and Developers 07 October 2017GDPR advice for the people who design and build software, such as business analysts, developers and architects.
- GDPR Summary 06 October 2017A brief overview of the GDPR and its implications
- Azure Failover and Resilience 101 29 June 2017When first coming to Azure, it can be hard to understand what resilience you get automatically and what you might have to set up yourself. This post provides a high-level overview of the principles. It is intended as an introduction to help you ask the right questions.
- Combine documents with other data in Azure Search 30 January 2017Azure Search has built-in support for indexing documents in blob storage, which works great. But what if you want to combine the documents with other data, for example if you are building a recruitment system and want to search on, say, location and CV content at the same time?
- How many ways can I host a web app in Azure? 06 January 2017A quick list of the different ways you can host a web app in Azure.
- Find docs with no PartitionKey in Azure DocumentDb 06 December 2016It is possible to accidentally create documents in CosmosDb without a partition key. This post explores how to retrieve them.
- Find Documents with missing properties in Azure DocumentDb with the .Net SDK 29 September 2016Azure DocumentDb stores documents as JSON. One of the effects of this is that sometimes you may end up with documents in the database that have missing properties and it can be quite tricky to search for them with the .Net SDK. This blog post has an approach to doing it.
- Auto publish Azure Web Jobs with ASP.Net Core RTM 26 August 2016Use Kudu to deploy Azure Web Jobs with ASP.Net Core.
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