Today was my last day at Microsoft. Working here was a great opportunity for me, and I've met and worked with some really wonderful folks. After trying for more than a year to pivot from consulting to another role within the company, I decided now was the time to leave.…

Cloud-based GPUs provide a flexible, scalable, and cost-effective solution for training complex machine learning and deep learning models. NVIDIA is the vendor to beat in this space, providing high-performance GPUs and the CUDA programming model used by many A.I. workloads including ChatGPT. Despite the popularity of NVIDIA GPUs and wide support for GPU equipped virtual machines in the the cloud, the CUDA drivers are not included with many stock VM images. Installing these drivers on your own custom images enables you to spin up more GPUs faster, whether on virtual machines or scale sets.…

Kubernetes is a great platform for running scalable apps and is available pretty much everywhere. Many who own or deploy apps have enough to manage already and don't have the cycles to operate their own Kubernetes clusters. Azure Container Apps (ACA) is the fastest way to get started running apps on Kubernetes in Azure, with service mesh, ingress, and secure defaults. Best of all, it shifts the operational burden to the cloud provider. This post reviews the advantages of ACA as well as some of the key features that aren't available to help determine if ACA is a good fit for your application.…

I built the first PC I ever used from some spare parts my dad had laying around. That was in 1989, I was 9 years old and instantly became a PC enthusiast. I had just built a system with a 286 CPU in an AT form factor tower case with a 20 Megabyte (not a typo) HDD and was already looking forward to upgrading to a 386. I built every PC I owned from then on, using the old parts to make a PC for a friend or family member. Then in 2011 I bought a laptop and gave away my last desktop build. There simply weren't any options for building a desktop class machine in a laptop form factor. Until now.…

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