Azure
Azure Foundry Blueprints: Deploy Microsoft Foundry in 15 Minutes
Open source Terraform and Bicep blueprints to deploy Microsoft Foundry with private networking. Learn the new AI Services architecture and get hands-on fast.
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Azure
Cybersecurity
A $500K Backup Failure, Jailbroken TV Boxes, and the Cybersecurity Lessons Every Business Leader Needs
Dom Vogel joins Firewall Fridays to break down a construction company's $500K backup disaster and a U.S. espionage device targeting oil and gas workers — with direct implications for Western Canada's energy sector.
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Cloud Careers
The Complete Cloud Career Roadmap: How to Go from Zero to Hired in 90 Days
A step-by-step cloud career roadmap with salary data for 5 roles, 16 AI-powered learning prompts, and a printable 90-day action plan for career changers and builders.
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AI Strategy
OpenAI Killed Sora: What This Means for Your AI Strategy
OpenAI shut down its AI video generator Sora after just a few months. If your AI strategy depends on a single vendor, this is your wake-up call. Here's how to build vendor-resilient AI adoption.
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Events
Code To Cloud Summit 2026: Where Builders Become Leaders — Alberta's Premier Cloud, AI & DevOps Conference
May 23, 2026 — Calgary, Alberta. One day. One stage. The builders, engineers, and leaders shaping the future of cloud computing in Western Canada — all under one roof. Exclusive speakers, major announcements, and limited tickets.
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Azure AI
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is Now GA: Everything You Need to Know
The enterprise AI agent platform just hit general availability. OpenAI-compatible Responses API, full VNet isolation, Voice Live preview, built-in evals, MCP auth, open model support—plus the Agent Framework hits release candidate.
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Developer Tools
The Complete Guide to GitHub Copilot Instructions: Customizing AI for Your Team
GitHub now officially supports custom instructions for Copilot. Here's how to set up repository-level guidelines that enforce your technology stack, branding, testing standards, and scale across your entire organization.
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Security & Operations
Who Actually Owns Your Business Technology? A Wake-Up Call for Startups
I've seen startups lose access to their own domain, their email, their customer data — all because they handed the keys to someone who eventually disappeared. Here's how to avoid being one of them.
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AI & Strategy
Getting Started with AI: A Practical Guide for Alberta Businesses
Before you spend money on AI tools, read this. I'm seeing too many businesses waste time and budget because they skipped the first step: defining the problem. Here's how to do it right.
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Developer Tools
From Fresh Install to azd up in Minutes: Meet Kodra
If you've ever spent half a day setting up a new Ubuntu machine just to start writing cloud infrastructure code, you already understand the problem Kodra solves. Kodra is a one-command developer environment bootstrapper that gets you from a bare Ubuntu 24.04 install to a fully configured, production-ready Azure development environment in under five minutes.
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AI & Agents
From Prompt Experiments to Operable Agent Systems: Gas Town on Microsoft's AI Stack
In January 2026, Steve Yegge introduced Gas Town, an experimental multi-agent development system built around a radical idea: instead of using AI as a coding assistant, use AI as a coordinated workforce. This article explores what a Gas Town-style system would look like using Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot.
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Azure
Infrastructure That Documents Itself: A New Era for Developers and Platform Teams
Documentation is always the first thing to fall behind. Using GitHub Copilot + Azure MCP, this repo generates a complete infrastructure wiki directly from a live Azure environment in under 15 minutes—using only natural language prompts.
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Strategy
5 Cloud Strategy Mistakes That Kill Startups (And How to Avoid Them)
Most founders treat cloud infrastructure as an IT decision. The best treat it as their competitive advantage. After working with startups through our fractional CTO services, we've seen the same five mistakes sink promising companies.
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Leadership
What Is a Fractional CTO? A Plain-English Guide for Alberta Businesses
At a recent networking event in Calgary, someone asked me what a CTO actually does. It's a fair question — and it made me realize we need to start from the basics. Here's what business owners in Western Canada need to know about cloud, AI, and technology leadership.
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IT Careers
Navigating the Future of IT Certifications: Insights from Tim Warner
IT certifications are changing—and many cloud professionals are preparing for the wrong future. Tim Warner shares insights on which certifications actually matter for AI, cloud-native, and DevOps careers.
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Cloud-Native
Cloud-Native Skills in 2026: The Open-Source Playbook Everyone Should Be Using
Linux. Containers. Kubernetes. Automation. Infrastructure as Code. Build practical, enterprise-ready cloud-native skills using the best open-source tools and community-backed learning paths.
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Leadership
Crawl, Walk, Run: Containers for Leaders (Beyond Just the Tech)
Every few years, technology gives us a step-change—not a trend, but a new baseline. Containers are that baseline today. A leadership guide to container adoption using the crawl, walk, run approach.
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Azure AI
CAF + Microsoft Foundry + Azure AI Landing Zones: The Fast Track to Enterprise AI
AI adoption isn't just about spinning up a model anymore. It's about speed, governance, and trust. Learn how CAF, Foundry, and Landing Zones provide the fastest route from idea to production.
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AI & Public Sector
AI in Public Service: The Shift from Administration to Intelligence
Innovation isn't just happening in Silicon Valley. Deputy Minister Janak Alford shares how Alberta is using AI to transform public service and unlock human capability.
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AI & DevOps
The Future of Coding with AI: Gene Kim on VibeCoding & DevOps Transformation
Gene Kim, DevOps pioneer and author of The Phoenix Project, explores VibeCoding—a revolutionary way to code with AI as your co-pilot.
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