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Hey there,

Aymen here, founder of FAUN.

I’m glad to announce that I recently published: OpenAI GPT For Python Developers - The art and science of developing intelligent apps with OpenAI GPT-3, DALL·E 2, CLIP, and Whisper.

In this practical hands-on guide, I share my knowledge and experience with OpenAI's models, specifically GPT-3 (but also other models: Whisper, CLIP, and DALL·E 2), and how Python developers can use them to build their own intelligent applications. The guide is designed to be a step-by-step guide that covers the fundamental concepts and techniques of using GPT-3, and provides a hands-on approach to learning.

Rest assured, you don't need to possess the title of a data scientist, machine learning engineer, or AI expert to understand and implement the concepts, techniques, and tutorials presented in this guide. My explanations are crystal clear and easy to understand, employing simple Python code, examples, and hands-on exercises.

By the end of your learning journey, you will have built applications such as:

• A fine-tuned medical chatbot assistant
• An intelligent coffee recommendation system
• An intelligent conversational system with memory and context
• An AI voice assistant like Alexa but smarter
• A Chatbot assistant to help with Linux commands
• A semantic search engine
• A news category prediction system
• An image recognition intelligent system (image to text)
• An image generator (text to image)
• and more!

The book is now available on Leanpub and will be available soon on Amazon and other platforms.

👉A time-limited discount of 30%* is available for all FAUN community members. Use it here or by clicking on the image below.

* The discount expires on March 10th, 2023.

Learn how to protect your infrastructure and sleep easier at night with Teleport Machine ID, eliminating the need for shared secrets and passwords in your GitHub Actions workflows.

Don't let an exposed secret be the difference between efficient testing and a nightmarish breach.

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👨‍💻👩‍💻 Humans Behind Code is a series of interviews we're conducting with developers who are working on open-source projects that are worthy of our attention.

In this interview, we talk to Shahar Glazner, co-founder and CTO of Keep, an open-source alerting CLI. Shahar shared thoughts and tips about building projects that are useful for developers.

Read the interview here to learn more about the human and the code!

The primary objective of the Complete Ethereum Technology course is to offer a trustworthy learning resource to help you become an Ethereum expert. This course includes a thorough overview of all the technical components of Ethereum driving its functionalities and use cases.

Starting from Ethereum basics and the technical components in its working, this course also delivers a possible roadmap for the future of Ethereum. Begin your journey in the Ethereum landscape with the trusted Ethereum technology course.

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1) Azure Files share with SMB and NFS protocols allows you to pay only for what you use, unlike GCP's Filestore which requires provisioning with a minimum size of 1TB for HDD and 2.5TB for SSD, making it expensive for storing few GBs.

2) Azure Policy offers built-in policies for regulatory compliance such as PCI DSS 4.0 and SWIFT CSCF 2021, which can help with audit controls. No such alternative exists in GCP.

3) Azure allows you to set up deletion protection locks for all resources, unlike GCP's VMs-only option for deletion protection.

This blog post discusses how Azure Policy for Kubernetes, deployed as part of Defender for Containers, can be used to manage policies for Kubernetes clusters. The blog explains how the Azure Policy for Kubernetes leverages Gatekeeper with Open Policy Agent (OPA) to ensure that cluster configurations comply with industry and company best practices.

The blog also highlights that organizations can configure policy parameters and exclusions to fit their organizational policies, and that the affected components can be viewed and exported using a PowerShell script.

David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of Basecamp and creator of Ruby on Rails, shared in an article that his company is planning to fully exit the cloud by the end of the summer and expects to save about $7 million in server expenses over the next five years by doing so.

He explained that they spent around $3.2 million on cloud in 2022, with about $1 million of that going to storing 8 petabytes of files in S3. The remaining $2.3 million is what they intend to bring down to zero this year. They plan to purchase around 2,000 vCPU per data center (they run in two data centers), and will spend $600,000 on hardware and $720,000 on power and bandwidth per year, which is much cheaper than their current cloud expenses.

Tip: He encourages other mid-sized SaaS businesses to benchmark their rental bills for cloud servers against buying their own boxes.

In this article, Mark Fairlie provides a comparison of two leading Infrastructure as a Service providers, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

The article covers a comprehensive list of services offered by both companies, including app modernization, compute, gaming, data analytics, migration, networking, operations, security and identity, serverless, and storage. The comparison is aimed at helping businesses choose the right cloud-based infrastructure provider for their specific needs.

Microsoft has unveiled the MitreMap Notebook, a notebook that utilizes the GPT2 language model to map unstructured descriptive text of an incident. The notebook is capable of identifying the relevant MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise techniques, as well as the tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) utilized by the actor group and the Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) in the report.

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Operator Nexus, a hybrid, AI-enabled, carrier-grade cloud platform designed to meet the specific needs of network operators.

Microsoft has launched new features for its Cognitive Speech Service to accelerate language learning with pronunciation assessment, new speech-to-text (STT) languages, and prebuilt and custom neural voice enhancements.

DevOpsDays is coming to SoCal! Join us at the Pasadena Convention Center on March 10th for a full day of sessions and discussions on all things Dev, Ops, and in-between.

More information here .

The DevOps Asia Summit 2023 is a flagship event that brings together thought leaders and practitioners from the ASEAN region to showcase their expertise in DevSecOps and SRE.

The event focuses on digital transformation in the cloud, using reliable and secure value delivery through intelligent and efficient outcomes. The summit will feature real case stories, future trends, and networking opportunities, providing attendees with an opportunity to upskill themselves and their teams and learn from global experts.

FAUN community members are eligible for a 10% discount code (FAUNDOAS23).

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