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Extending WebAssembly to the Cloud with .NET - .NET Blog

Posted on:5 December 2023

We're closely following the progress of WebAssembly, including WebAssembly System Interface (WASI). There's a new experimental workload in .NET 8 for WASI that extends the capabilities of Wasm towards the Cloud.

Extending WebAssembly to the Cloud with .NET - .NET Blog

1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023

Posted on:5 October 2023

On 4 October 2023, Cloudflare experienced DNS resolution problems. Some users may have received SERVFAIL DNS responses to valid queries. In this blog, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again

1.1.1.1 lookup failures on October 4th, 2023

Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone

Posted on:30 September 2023

Now that we’ve eliminated CAPTCHAs at Cloudflare, we want to hasten the demise of CAPTCHAs across the internet. We’re thrilled to announce that Turnstile is generally available, and Turnstile’s ‘Managed’ mode is now completely free to everyone for unlimited use.

Cloudflare is free of CAPTCHAs; Turnstile is free for everyone

Polly v8 officially released

Posted on:30 September 2023

After months of continuous development, Polly v8 is finally here! In our v8 announcement post, we discussed the background of the Polly project and what motivated us to completely redesign the library with a hyper-focus on performance. We were very fortunate to have top-notch developers from Microso…

Polly v8 officially released

LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models

Posted on:29 September 2023

We present LongLoRA, an efficient fine-tuning approach that extends the context sizes of pre-trained large language models (LLMs), with limited computation cost. Typically, training LLMs with long...

LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models

Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications to production, fast

Posted on:28 September 2023

Vectorize is our brand-new vector database offering, designed to let you build full-stack, AI-powered applications entirely on Cloudflare’s global network: and you can start building with it right away

Vectorize: a vector database for shipping AI-powered applications to production, fast

Killed by Apple, Google and Microsoft - Discontinued products and services

Posted on:27 September 2023

Killed by tech is a graveyard in memorial of great and beloved products killed by Apple, Google and Microsoft. It's a free and open source list of discontinued products and services.

Killed by Apple, Google and Microsoft - Discontinued products and services

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog

Posted on:22 September 2023

We are entering a new era of AI, one that is fundamentally changing how we relate to and benefit from technology. With the convergence of chat interfaces and large language models you can now ask for what you want in natural language and the technology is smart enough to answer, create it or take ac…

Announcing Microsoft Copilot, your everyday AI companion - The Official Microsoft Blog

Kamal 1.0

Posted on:21 September 2023

I count my lucky stars that SUSE's pricing for Rancher and Harvester was so ridiculous over the top for our situation. If they hadn't reached for those million-dollar contracts, we'd probably be stuck in enterprise vendor hell forever, buying over-priced consulting services for Kubernetes and VM too…

Kamal 1.0

Performance Improvements in .NET 8 - .NET Blog

Posted on:13 September 2023

.NET 7 was super fast, .NET 8 is faster. Take an in-depth tour through over 500 pull requests that make that a reality.

Performance Improvements in .NET 8 - .NET Blog

New free, interactive Angular course for beginners on Sololearn

Posted on:8 September 2023

We are delighted to announce that we’ve collaborated with the online interactive code learning platform Sololearn to develop an…

New free, interactive Angular course for beginners on Sololearn

You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API – Ars Technica

Posted on:6 September 2023

Developers can now bring their own data to customize GPT-3.5 Turbo outputs.

You can now train ChatGPT on your own documents via API – Ars Technica

Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness!

Posted on:2 September 2023

In this article, I describe my journey creating a barely functional rust backend enabling compilation for the .NET runtime (Usually used to run C# and F#). It is currently in the proof-of-concept stage, but I believe it still may be of some interest.

Compiling Rust for .NET, using only tea and stubbornness!

Generally available: Azure Container Apps workload profiles, more networking features, and jobs - Microsoft Community Hub

Posted on:31 August 2023

Announcing the general availability of workload profiles, Dedicated plan, additional networking features, and jobs in Azure Container Apps.

Generally available: Azure Container Apps workload profiles, more networking features, and jobs - Microsoft Community Hub

Google's Gemini AI is a Serious Threat to ChatGPT – Here's Why

Posted on:29 August 2023

Google's new Gemini LLM has the potential to unseat ChatGPT due to its vast array of proprietary training data. Learn more about it here.

Google's Gemini AI is a Serious Threat to ChatGPT – Here's Why

A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot - The GitHub Blog

Posted on:26 August 2023

Now, you can group multiple version updates in a single pull request.

A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot - The GitHub Blog

OpenTF created a fork of Terraform!

Posted on:26 August 2023

Read the official announcement: opentf.org/announcement

OpenTF created a fork of Terraform!