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Register today to join Sean Whitesell's "Data Patterns for Successful Applications" Presentation. This will be a virtual event on Dec 28th. ow.ly/Ch1R50QbLb3

Everyone here at ArchitectNow would like to wish all our friends, families, and partners a very Happy Holiday Season!

We are excited to be sponsoring tonights dev up Holiday Party here in STL at the Chesterfield Topgolf! Stop out for some food, drink, golf, and a lot of geek talk! RSVP: ow.ly/wfjH50QjL1S #devupconf #devup2023 @devupconf

Microsoft just announced the General Availability of Azure Boost. Azure Boost enabled VMs have increased performance with computation, booting, storage, and networking. ow.ly/3lMH50Q9tLC and ow.ly/8oic50Q9tLA

Microsoft has Azure Confidential Computing to protect data while in memory and during computation. Now in public preview, Intel TDX offers many features including boot-time attestation, platform-managed keys, and customer-managed keys. ow.ly/jQfO50Q9tFJ

Microsoft has had the Well-Architected Framework for many years. They just announced an update for additional recommendations. The assessment is free and should be considered a must for evaluating every production workload. ow.ly/Tzh150Q9tBH

The Azure Chaos Studio allows for real testing of outages. This helps design stronger and more resilient architectures. The integration of Azure Load Testing provides controlled amounts of traffic that can be used during outage testing. ow.ly/ETpy50Q9tAf

Join us Nov 27th at 5:30 at 1365 Public House for Frank Siler's Presentation: A Framework for Inter-Team and Intra-Team Communications. ow.ly/7i5f50Q9tuW

.NET Aspire for simplifying cloud-native development! Microsoft just announced .NET Aspire. Aspire helps developer quickly create cloud-native applications with built-on libraries like health checks, gRPC, and YARP. ow.ly/EjWv50Q7yQu

You can attend MS Ignite 2023 virtually Nov 15th - 17th for free. There are some great announcements coming up for AI, Copilot, and many other products. Register now and build your session schedule. ignite.microsoft.com

.NET 8.0 is now available!! Packed with many improvements and features, .NET 8.0 is the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version. It's available for downloading right now! ow.ly/44xu50Q7yNU

Playwright has quickly become a favored testing framework with how quickly and easily test can be built and automated. Now in preview is "Microsoft Playwright Testing", a highly scalable Azure hosted alternative for testing your applications. ow.ly/hEWU50Q587R

Azure has a change to their SQL Service free service limit. Now, you can get 100,000 vCore seconds of compute power every month. This is great for proof of concept projects. ow.ly/VJPk50Q586E

Happy World Kindness Day! Today we pause and give thanks for all the thoughtful, generous actions that have made our lives so much brighter. #worldkindnessday #generosity #architectnow #spreadthekindness

Happy #VeteransDay to all of our brave service members past and present! We take this day to honor your commitment to defending our freedom, and are thankful for all you do. #ThankAVet #SupportOurTroops 🥳🇺🇸

Many development environments have virtual machines with public exposed IP addresses. Azure Bastion Developer provides a single entry point for developers at a lower cost than the production version. ow.ly/TbhX50Q584A

Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime extension is now in public preview to help your Azure Functions connect and add power to a microservices architecture. ow.ly/Nb1S50Q57X8

Happy #STEMDay! 🎉🔬 We’re celebrating the incredible achievement of scientists, engineers, and medical professionals in making our world a better place.

Azure Web Apps: Power your business with web-based solutions. Discover the ease of Azure. #AzureWebApps #CloudSolutions ow.ly/5vM950Q57TN

Our very own Sean Whitesell will presenting a virtual webinar tonight at 6pm CST: Azure on the Cheap - Your First Azure Applications. Register at ow.ly/Covy50Q4Kag