Simon Bisson
Columnist
Author of InfoWorld's Enterprise Microsoft blog, Simon BIsson prefers to think of "career" as a verb rather than a noun, having worked in academic and telecoms research, as well as having been the CTO of a startup, running the technical side of UK Online (the first national ISP with content as well as connections), before moving into consultancy and technology strategy. He’s built plenty of large-scale web applications, designed architectures for multi-terabyte online image stores, implemented B2B information hubs, and come up with next generation mobile network architectures and knowledge management solutions. In between doing all that, he’s been a freelance journalist since the early days of the web and writes about everything from enterprise architecture down to gadgets.
KAN: A Kubernetes edge environment for computer vision
Microsoft’s open-source KubeAI Application Nucleus is a low-touch, Kubernetes-based system for building and running machine learning applications for edge devices.
Kubernetes cost management for the real world
How much will Kubernetes cost to run? That question has become much easier to answer for Azure Kubernetes Service, thanks to OpenCost integration.
Semantic Kernel: A bridge between large language models and your code
Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel SDK makes it easier to manage complex prompts and get focused results from large language models like GPT.
Working with Azure’s Data API builder
Add REST and GraphQL APIs to any database with a handy .NET CLI tool.
Using Hugging Face machine learning models in Azure
Microsoft is working to bring open source machine learning models into Azure applications and services.
Design effective AI prompts with Microsoft Prompt Engine
Microsoft’s open source tool helps you write code to work with generative AI, ensuring results give correct information and stay on topic.
Cobol in .NET with Otterkit
Old languages never die, they just get ported to a new runtime. Here’s a look at a new open source project for .NET that can help modernize Cobol.
Getting started with Azure OpenAI
Microsoft’s Azure-hosted OpenAI language models are now generally available, and it’s surprisingly simple to use them in your code.
Easier documentation with GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages lets you manage content exactly the same way you manage code, pushing from content development branches to main to publish new content. It’s a great way to ensure that code and documentation are delivered side by side.
SpiderLightning: Making WebAssembly cloud applications portable
Inside one of the technologies that powers Azure Kubernetes Service’s WebAssembly support, and promises to make applications portable across clouds and other hosts.
Introducing Cadl: Microsoft’s concise API design language
With Cadl, you can write a 500-line OpenAPI definition in 50 lines of code. It’s a logical way for architects and developers to construct and constrain APIs.