Cloud strategies, developer tools, and insights from the Code To Cloud team
AI & Policy
Canada dropped its full National AI Strategy 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.
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AI & Developer Tools
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.
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AI & Open Source
Compare 15+ open-weight and open-source LLMs for coding agents and local inference. Covers Llama 4, DeepSeek R1, Qwen 3, Ollama, Foundry Local, OpenClaw, and more.
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Developer Tools
One curl command. 40+ open-source tools. Ghostty terminal, tmux, OpenCode AI, Podman containers, GitHub Copilot CLI — the macOS developer environment that goes from fresh install to azd up in minutes.
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Leadership
20+ years of tech leadership distilled — from cloud transformation in financial services to building high-trust teams and why full-stack thinkers are the most valuable professionals in 2026.
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AI & Azure
Stop asking "which platform?" — start asking "what outcome?" A decision tree mapping 10 business outcomes to the right AI platform, with governance, security, and networking guidance.
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AI & Productivity
Build an AI chief of staff that reads your inbox, triages what matters, preps your calendar briefing, and identifies your top priority — using Copilot agent mode, MCP servers, and three files.
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AI & Agents
A practical comparison of every Microsoft agent framework — Agent Framework, Foundry SDK, M365 Agents SDK — plus open-source alternatives like LangGraph, CrewAI, and PyTorch. Decision flowchart included.
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Azure
Open source Terraform and Bicep blueprints to deploy Microsoft Foundry with private networking. Learn the new AI Services architecture and get hands-on fast.
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Azure
Azure Landing Zone or AI Landing Zone? Two architectures compared side by side — with a practical decision framework so you don't over-engineer or under-build.
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Cybersecurity
Dom Vogel joins Firewall Fridays to break down a construction company's $500K backup disaster and a U.S. espionage device targeting oil and gas workers — with direct implications for Western Canada's energy sector.
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Cloud Careers
A step-by-step cloud career roadmap with salary data for 5 roles, 16 AI-powered learning prompts, and a printable 90-day action plan for career changers and builders.
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AI Strategy
OpenAI shut down its AI video generator Sora after just a few months. If your AI strategy depends on a single vendor, this is your wake-up call. Here's how to build vendor-resilient AI adoption.
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Events
May 23, 2026 — Calgary, Alberta. One day. One stage. The builders, engineers, and leaders shaping the future of cloud computing in Western Canada — all under one roof. Exclusive speakers, major announcements, and limited tickets.
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Azure AI
The enterprise AI agent platform just hit general availability. OpenAI-compatible Responses API, full VNet isolation, Voice Live preview, built-in evals, MCP auth, open model support—plus the Agent Framework hits release candidate.
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Developer Tools
GitHub now officially supports custom instructions for Copilot. Here's how to set up repository-level guidelines that enforce your technology stack, branding, testing standards, and scale across your entire organization.
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Security & Operations
I've seen startups lose access to their own domain, their email, their customer data — all because they handed the keys to someone who eventually disappeared. Here's how to avoid being one of them.
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AI & Strategy
Before you spend money on AI tools, read this. I'm seeing too many businesses waste time and budget because they skipped the first step: defining the problem. Here's how to do it right.
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Developer Tools
If you've ever spent half a day setting up a new Ubuntu machine just to start writing cloud infrastructure code, you already understand the problem Kodra solves. Kodra is a one-command developer environment bootstrapper that gets you from a bare Ubuntu 24.04 install to a fully configured, production-ready Azure development environment in under five minutes.
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AI & Agents
In January 2026, Steve Yegge introduced Gas Town, an experimental multi-agent development system built around a radical idea: instead of using AI as a coding assistant, use AI as a coordinated workforce. This article explores what a Gas Town-style system would look like using Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot.
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Azure
Documentation is always the first thing to fall behind. Using GitHub Copilot + Azure MCP, this repo generates a complete infrastructure wiki directly from a live Azure environment in under 15 minutes—using only natural language prompts.
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Strategy
Most founders treat cloud infrastructure as an IT decision. The best treat it as their competitive advantage. After working with startups through our fractional CTO services, we've seen the same five mistakes sink promising companies.
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Leadership
At a recent networking event in Calgary, someone asked me what a CTO actually does. It's a fair question — and it made me realize we need to start from the basics. Here's what business owners in Western Canada need to know about cloud, AI, and technology leadership.
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IT Careers
IT certifications are changing—and many cloud professionals are preparing for the wrong future. Tim Warner shares insights on which certifications actually matter for AI, cloud-native, and DevOps careers.
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Cloud-Native
Linux. Containers. Kubernetes. Automation. Infrastructure as Code. Build practical, enterprise-ready cloud-native skills using the best open-source tools and community-backed learning paths.
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Leadership
Every few years, technology gives us a step-change—not a trend, but a new baseline. Containers are that baseline today. A leadership guide to container adoption using the crawl, walk, run approach.
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Azure AI
AI adoption isn't just about spinning up a model anymore. It's about speed, governance, and trust. Learn how CAF, Foundry, and Landing Zones provide the fastest route from idea to production.
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AI & Public Sector
Innovation isn't just happening in Silicon Valley. Deputy Minister Janak Alford shares how Alberta is using AI to transform public service and unlock human capability.
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AI & DevOps
Gene Kim, DevOps pioneer and author of The Phoenix Project, explores VibeCoding—a revolutionary way to code with AI as your co-pilot.
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