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Practical articles on cloud strategy, AI adoption, security, and developer tools, written for founders and operators, not other engineers.
Canada released its National AI Strategy — AI for All — on June 4, 2026. A frank breakdown of the six pillars, what's actually funded, the sovereignty play, and what it means for Canadian businesses right now.
Verified list of the top Claude Code GitHub repos — skills, agents, and dev tools — with real star counts and honest reviews from a fractional CTO.
Compare 15+ open-weight and open-source LLMs for coding agents and local inference. Covers Llama 4, DeepSeek R1, Qwen 3, Ollama, Foundry Local, and more.
Bootstrap your macOS developer environment in one command. Ghostty terminal, tmux, OpenCode AI, Podman containers, GitHub Copilot CLI, and 40+ cloud-native tools.
Canadian Tire SVP Keran McGuire shares 20+ years of tech leadership lessons — from cloud transformation in financial services to building high-trust teams and why full-stack thinkers win in 2026.
Copilot Studio or Azure AI Foundry? A business outcome decision tree covering RAG, agents, security, fine-tuning, networking, and governance.
Build an AI chief of staff agent using GitHub Copilot, MCP servers, and custom agent files. Automate daily briefings, inbox triage, and weekly planning.
Compare Microsoft Agent Framework, M365 Agents SDK, Foundry SDK, and open-source alternatives like LangGraph and CrewAI. Decision flowchart included.
Open source Terraform and Bicep blueprints to deploy Microsoft Foundry with private networking. Learn the new AI Services architecture and get hands-on fast.
Azure Landing Zone or AI Landing Zone? Compare both architectures, deployment methods, and find which one fits your team.
A company lost $500K to untested backups. Plus: the SuperBox espionage device found in U.S. oil and gas — and why Western Canada should pay attention.
The definitive cloud career roadmap for 2026. Step-by-step path from zero to hired, salary data for 5 roles, 16 AI prompts, and a printable 90-day action plan.
OpenAI shut down Sora, its AI video tool. Here's what this means for your AI strategy and how to avoid vendor lock-in when adopting AI tools.
Recap of the Code To Cloud Summit 2026 — Alberta's full-day cloud, AI & DevOps conference in Calgary on May 23, 2026. Summit 2027 returns in May 2027.
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is now GA. Responses API, full VNet isolation, Voice Live, built-in evals, and open model support.
Set up GitHub Copilot custom instructions for your team. Repo-level, path-specific, and org-wide guidelines for Azure, Bicep, and Terraform projects.
What happens when your IT contractor disappears with all the passwords? Learn how to keep control of your domain, email, and cloud accounts.
Before you spend money on AI tools, read this. A plain-English guide to defining your problem, choosing the right platform, and avoiding expensive mistakes.
Kodra bootstraps your Azure dev environment in one command. Go from bare Ubuntu 24.04 to azd up in under five minutes.
Exploring what a multi-agent development system would look like using Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot's pro-code tooling.
Using GitHub Copilot + Azure MCP to generate complete infrastructure wikis from live Azure environments in under 15 minutes.
Most founders treat cloud infrastructure as an IT decision. The best treat it as their competitive advantage. Here are the 5 mistakes to avoid.
Not sure what a CTO does — or if you need one? This plain-English guide covers fractional CTO services for Alberta startups and small businesses.
IT certifications are evolving fast. Kevin Evans and Tim Warner discuss which cloud, AI, and DevOps certs actually matter for Alberta tech careers in 2026.
Master cloud-native skills in 2026 with this open-source playbook covering Linux, containers, Kubernetes, automation, and Infrastructure as Code.
A leadership guide to container adoption. Learn the crawl, walk, run approach to moving your organization to containers and Kubernetes on Azure.
Learn how CAF, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure AI Landing Zones provide the fastest path from AI idea to production with governance and security built in.
Innovation isn't just happening in Silicon Valley. Learn how Alberta is using AI to transform public service with insights from Deputy Minister Janak Alford.
Gene Kim, DevOps pioneer and author of The Phoenix Project, explores VibeCoding — a revolutionary way to code with AI as your co-pilot.