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Matt Allford's Newsletter | Issue 16
Published over 1 year ago • 3 min read
Hey, it's Matt.
Whoops, it's been a little while. Hoping you've had a great Christmas, and maybe able to step away from work for a week or two!
I've got a goal to get this newsletter on a proper cadence in 2025. Hopefully fortnightly, but at least monthly is my initial goal.
As usual I've collected a few pieces of information below that I hope you find helpful, as well as the usual podcast recommendation at the bottom.
Talk soon, Matt.
Azure CDN from Edgio Retiring on Jan 15 2025
As well as Azure themselves, there have been other providers for CDNs in Azure, one of which is Edgio, formerly Verizon. The TLDR is Edgio has gone bankrupt, and the CDN provided by Edgio was originally scheduled to be retired in November 2025, but that has now been brought forward to January 15, 2025.
If you take no action and are using this service, Microsoft will attempt to migrate you to Azure Front Door on the 7th of January, which may or may not meet your requirements.
To find out more about the announcement and check if you're using this service, check this FAQ ASAP!
Festive Tech Calendar 2024
The Festive Tech Calendar event is in full swing for 2024, which is an event of community based sessions to share knowledge, by the community, for the community.
Alongside the knowledge sharing, each year there is a fundraiser, with this year the money is being raised for the Beatson Cancer Charity.
Click on the main link below to see the sessions, as well as links off to donating to the charity if you're in a position to do so.
GitHub recently announced a new offering for GitHub CoPilot, and have launched a free offering of CoPilot, standing alongside Pro, Business, and Enterprise versions.
The free version provides up to 50 chat messages and up to 2,000 code completions per month. You also have the choice between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet or OpenAI’s GPT-4o model for the LLM.
On a side note, if you're a student, educator, or open source maintainer, you can receive complimentary access to GitHub Pro.
I work with a lot of customers who use Azure DevOps, and for the most part are happy with it, but there have been some compelling reasons to look at migrating code bases across to GitHub.
This year at Ignite, Microsoft made some announcements about tightening the integration between ADO and GitHub further.
One of the announcements I am looking forward to is the licensing integration, where if you're using GitHub Enterprise, you'll also receive a license for Azure DevOps Basic. This is a great option for companies who want to host their code repositories on GitHub, but leverage some of the advanced capabilities of pipelines from ADO that haven't yet made their way to GitHub.
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This newsletter I want to share the Azure Friday podcast, and I'm stretching the term podcast there as it is available in audio form only, but it is primarily a video based show as well. I'd actually recommend watching the videos, as a lot of the sessions are getting hands on demos with different features, functions, and solutions in Microsoft Azure.
"Join Scott Hanselman, Donovan Brown, or Lara Rubbelke as they host the engineers who build Azure, demo it, answer questions, and share insights."
The show hasn't had a new episode in a few months, so I'm not sure if it on hiatus, or is due to make a return. Either way, click on the image below, or search for Azure Friday in your favourite podcatcher!
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