Powering Distributed AI/ML at Scale with Azure and Anyscale

By Dustin Ward

The path from prototype to production for AI/ML workloads is rarely straightforward. As data pipelines expand and model complexity grows, teams can find themselves spending more time orchestrating distributed compute than building the intelligence that powers their products. Scaling from a laptop experiment to a production-grade workload still feels like reinventing the wheel. What if…

Enhancing software supply chain security with Microsoft’s Signing Transparency

By Dustin Ward

Today, Microsoft is announcing the preview of Signing Transparency to address software supply chain threats that traditional code signing alone cannot fully prevent, building on the Zero Trust principle of “never trust, always verify.” Signing Transparency uses an append-only log to verifiably record each signature, with keys protected in a secure confidential computing enclave. This…

Resiliency in the cloud—empowered by shared responsibility and Azure Essentials

By Dustin Ward

Empowering organizations to shape the future of cloud with resilient, always-on solutions. Overview In today’s digital-first era, downtime is not an option—businesses must be resilient to thrive. Imagine it’s 2:00 AM and an outage occurs. Whether your team responds with panic or calm depends on how well you’ve prepared. Fast recovery isn’t luck—it’s the result…

GitHub Universe 2025: Where developer innovation took center stage

By Dustin Ward

At GitHub Universe 2025, the theme was clear: the ability to see, steer, and build across agents will bring the greatest impact and GitHub is the platform that’s transforming and empowering how developers and agents work together. As we heard from Kyle Daigle, Chief Operating Officer, GitHub, on stage this week, it is “the new…

Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work

By Dustin Ward

The current AI landscape presents a challenge we’re all too familiar with: incredible power fragmented across different tools and interfaces. At GitHub, we’ve always worked to solve these kinds of systemic challenges—by making Git accessible, code review systematic with pull requests, and automating deployment with Actions. With 180 million developers, GitHub is growing at its…