In October and November, Microsoft hosted the GitHub Universe and Ignite 2021 conferences, focused on Developers and Cloud Computing. We review the important announcements and analyze the future directions for Azure, GitHub, etc

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Azure - Bigger Announcements

Azure OpenAI Service - access to GPT-3
Azure Cognitive Service for Language
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Managed Instance of Apache Cassandra
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Container Apps (preview)
Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes
(Java EE) Oracle Weblogic on Azure Kubernetes Service.
(Java EE) Websphere Liberty on Kubernetes/OpenShift
Enhancements to Azure DevOps (see GitHub)

GitHub - Bigger Announcements

Improved CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions
Improvements to GitHub Codespaces
Custom repository roles (security)
Improved “Issues” and “Discussions”

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