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Azure DevOps or GitHub Enterprise ? Today, in the Microsoft ecosystem, two Software Development Lifecycle management platforms coexist: - Azure DevOps is designed from the ground up for enterprise with advanced planning features through Azure Boards, build and release automation with Azure Pipelines, and a unique offering for quality teams with...

This guide shares a series of videos that walk you through setting up GitHub and GitHub Copilot end-to-end for your company. These are especially useful for organizations starting from scratch who want to leverage GitHub Copilot and are looking to get started. These videos were recorded as of October 2025. This article is intentionally brief—j...

👋everyone! Shree here. I'm sure many of you have had a similar chat with someone you know. We often hesitate to celebrate our achievements because of social perceptions around self-promotion. I believe it’s time to challenge that mindset. Building a personal site is about owning your narrative and showcasing your work with pride. In this ...

Why best practices matter (and why many people skip them) Let’s be honest: when you’re in the zone shipping code or wiring up infrastructure, “best practices” can feel like that nagging voice telling you to eat your vegetables. We all know they’re good for us… but in the rush to get things working, they’re often the first thing to fall off the p...

Legacy modernization is one of the most frequently raised challenges customers approach us with. They want to eliminate technical debt and run applications cloud-native. Obviously, there are different levels of complexity in legacy modernization, but the most challenging cases remain mainframe languages like COBOL and PL/1. COBOL still powers mi...

Introduction You can now enjoy the same Codex experience in CLI or VS Code with Azure OpenAI support. We've contributed the following five pull requests to make this possible, giving you the familiar Codex functionality from ChatGPT while running securely on Azure: We are collaborating with OpenAI on additional updates and int...

Author: Charath Ranganathan, CTO, Crowdbotics Modernizing legacy applications is one of the most daunting tasks facing enterprises today. These systems, often built decades ago using technologies like COBOL on mainframes, power critical business functions but are notoriously difficult, time-consuming, and expensive to update or replace. The proc...

Deployment: Let's do it! All operations are performed in the VM Prerequisites everything is on-premises and free (except VM) The only thing you need is: Everything else is based on existing stuff, or based on open source software, no extra cost, for example: ...

Architecture: How it works! The Copilot Usage Advanced Dashboard offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to revolutionize how organizations track and analyze their Copilot usage. At its core, the solution leverages Elasticsearch for persistent data storage, breaking free from the traditional 28-day limitation and enabli...

Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes when you chat with GitHub Copilot in VS Code? Let's pull back the curtain and explore how this AI coding assistant processes your prompts, from local workspace scanning to interacting with OpenAI's language models.  This article explains how GitHub Copilot extension processes user prompts—includin...