[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Integrated HSM

We are announcing the release of Azure Integrated HSM, a Hardware Security Module (HSM) cache and crypto accelerator designed to enhance the security and performance of cryptographic operations in virtual machines. For customers who heavily rely on...

Know your ops: Why all ops lead back to devops

In the beginning, there was devops: a new philosophy that aimed to break down the silos of software development and IT operations and combine both teams into a single group with shared responsibility. Devops practices borrowed from agile development methodologies,...

OpenAI Codex rivals Claude Code

Codex CLI is an open-source coding agent from OpenAI, written primarily in Rust, that runs locally on your computer. Codex IDE extension is a coding agent that runs in Visual Studio Code and its forks, such as Cursor and Windsurf. Codex Web, which connects to Codex...

Java or Python for building agents?

Python didn’t become the lingua franca of artificial intelligence by accident. I’ve argued that Python’s dominance in AI isn’t due to blazing performance or fancy features, but because it offers the shortest distance from idea to working code. It’s an accessible,...