This Week I Learned - Week #12 2023

This Week I Learned - 

* Upcoming  Kubernetes 1.27 is about to close a bug that is almost 6 years old.

* Oracle Database 19c is fully supported in containers. And there are Helm charts for configuring these images in Kubernetes. Container images for Oracle Database 19.3 and 21.3 were recently released.

* Foundational & Advanced Machine Learning courses from Google

* FinOps is an evolving cloud financial management discipline and cultural practice that enables organizations to get maximum business value by helping engineering, finance, technology and business teams to collaborate on data-driven spending decisions. At its core, FinOps is a cultural practice. It’s the way for teams to manage their cloud costs, where everyone takes ownership of their cloud usage supported by a central best-practices group. FinOps is a portmanteau of “Finance” and “DevOps” stressing the communications and collaboration business and engineering teams. Other names for the practice include “Cloud Financial Management”, “Cloud Financial Engineering” “Cloud Cost Management”, “Cloud Optimization”, or “Cloud Financial Optimization”. If it seems that FinOps is about saving money, then think again. FinOps is about making money.

* Introduction to FinOps - Google Slides

* sqlTranslate is a human language to SQL Translator

* Firefox now allows you to read & edit PDFs like Microsoft Edge.

* Bard is powered by a research large language model (LLM), specifically a lightweight and optimized version of LaMDA, and will be updated with newer, more capable models over time. While LLMs are an exciting technology, they’re not without their faults. For instance, because they learn from a wide range of information that reflects real-world biases and stereotypes, those sometimes show up in their outputs. Although it’s important to be aware of challenges like these, there are still incredible benefits to LLMs, like jumpstarting human productivity, creativity and curiosity.

* Samples for working with Azure OpenAI Service

* You can combine Azure Cognitive Search and the chat models to develop a curated chat experience including citations support and additional functionality. 

* You can start exploring OpenAI capabilities with a no-code approach through the Azure OpenAI Studio ChatGPT playground.

* GitHub Copilot uses the OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor.