Simon Bisson
Contributor
Author of InfoWorld's Enterprise Microsoft blog, Simon BIsson prefers to think of "career" as a verb rather than a noun, having worked in academic and telecoms research, as well as having been the CTO of a startup, running the technical side of UK Online (the first national ISP with content as well as connections), before moving into consultancy and technology strategy. He’s built plenty of large-scale web applications, designed architectures for multi-terabyte online image stores, implemented B2B information hubs, and come up with next generation mobile network architectures and knowledge management solutions. In between doing all that, he’s been a freelance journalist since the early days of the web and writes about everything from enterprise architecture down to gadgets.
Using Inspektor Gadget for Kubernetes observability
An open-source collection of low-level tools helps you troubleshoot cloud-native applications by delivering key data from the heart of the Linux kernel.
How Microsoft’s Git fork scales for massive monorepos
Microsoft has rolled its Git Virtual File System and Scalar optimizations into a fork of Git designed to support enormous repos and large distributed teams.
Xamarin Forms reaches end of life. What should you do?
It’s time to update your older cross-platform .NET applications. Should you use MAUI or something else?
Using Neo4j’s graph database for AI in Azure
New techniques make graph databases a powerful tool for grounding large language models in private data.
Using Microsoft’s Retina to monitor Kubernetes networks
The open-source Retina brings observability to container networks in Kubernetes using eBPF.
Building a smarter Azure Kubernetes for developers
Microsoft continues to evolve its Azure Kubernetes Service. Kubernetes co-creator Brendan Burns tells us where it’s going next.
Securing Azure Kubernetes with Falco
The open-source cloud-native runtime security tool is now a graduated CNCF project. Is it time to use it in your Kubernetes applications?
Going passwordless with passkeys in Windows and .NET
It’s time to move away from passwords. Microsoft has tools to help you get started.
Diving into Microsoft’s dev tunnels
Microsoft has quietly added a cloud-hosted secure tunnel to Visual Studio and VS Code, making it easier to test APIs, web services, and mobile back ends.
Cloud and AI apps take center stage in .NET 9
A first preview release of the next .NET sets the scene for a year of platform development focused on cloud-native and AI-powered applications.
FlyteInteractive: Interactive development for machine learning models
LinkedIn needed a better way to test and tune machine learning models, so it wrote its own tool that plugs into Visual Studio Code.