Windows Developer Awards: And the 2018 winners are…
The excitement at Microsoft Build 2018 kicked off on May 6 with the annual presentation of the Windows Developer Awards, which acknowledge the hard work that goes into making great applications. In a...
View ArticlePlease Help Make the Science of DevOps Even Better!
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is now calling for participation in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey. Please click the link to join. We all benefit from having scientifically reviewed...
View ArticleDevOps with VSTS: Build 2018 Recap
The Visual Studio Team Services team just wrapped up the Build conference here in Seattle. If you weren’t able to make it, be sure to watch the recordings of our sessions online. Azure DevOps with VSTS...
View ArticleCustom R charts coming to Excel
This week at the BUILD conference, Microsoft announced that Power BI custom visuals will soon be available as charts with Excel. You'll be able to choose a range of data within an Excel workbook, and...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.11
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES VSTS Gems – Analytics Extension #1 –...
View ArticleIntroducing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Protocol
Today’s web developers face more challenges than ever before. New frameworks spring up left and right. The number of devices capable of running the web multiply by the day. And we strive as creators to...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Planes, pains, and automobiles
It's conference season, so I've been travelling on a lot of planes recently. (And today, I'm heading to Budapest for eRum 2018.) So this resonates with me right now: There's another video in the same...
View ArticleUsing LazyCache for clean and simple .NET Core in-memory caching
I'm continuing to use .NET Core 2.1 to power my Podcast Site, and I've done a series of posts on some of the experiments I've been doing. I also upgraded to .NET Core 2.1 RC that came out this week....
View ArticleAnnouncing the General Availability of Native Ads & Preview of Microsoft...
It has been about an year since the last Microsoft Build conference where we announced the Microsoft ad monetization platform – a server-side ad mediation platform from Microsoft that helps app...
View ArticleHelp improve our Azure docs!
On a weekly basis, more than 5 million people find help using Microsoft online help and documentation. Despite having more than 380,000 pages of articles, references, and tutorials, we each have our...
View ArticleJoin Microsoft at Bio-IT World
The Bio-IT World Conference and Expo kicks off tomorrow in Boston. Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of this event. The research and product development being done in the life sciences and healthcare...
View ArticleAccelerate your cloud data warehouse with automation tools
Gaining insights rapidly from data is critical to competitiveness in today’s business world. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), Microsoft’s fully managed analytics platform, leverages Massively...
View ArticleUsing the Azure IoT Python SDK: make sure you check the version!
Since the release in 2016, developers are using our Azure IoT Python SDK to write device and back-end applications to connect to Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service, as well as writing...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 31
Build 2018 Last week, thousands of developers gathered in Seattle for Microsoft Build 2018, Microsoft’s annual developer conference, to learn how we are empowering them to advance the future of society...
View Article10 great things about Kafka on HDInsight
Kafka on HDInsight is Microsoft Azure’s managed Kafka cluster offering. It has generated huge customer interest and excitement since its general availability in December 2017. Here are 10 great things...
View ArticleEnhance productivity using Azure Data Factory Visual Tools
With Azure Data Factory (ADF) visual tools, we listened to your feedback and enabled a rich, interactive visual authoring and monitoring experience. It allows you to iteratively create, configure,...
View ArticleThis month on Bing: expanded intelligent answer coverage, hotel booking,...
We’re excited to announce several new features this May at Bing. Expanded intelligent answer coverage People want to feel confident in an answer to their question, and often need to verify...
View ArticleWhy developers should enable Azure Security Center’s Just-in-Time VM Access
We are seeing more developers building and running their applications in the public cloud. In fact, companies are using multiple public clouds to run their applications. Our customers tell us that they...
View ArticleProtect virtual machines across different subscriptions with Azure Security...
We heard from our customers that they wanted an even simpler onboarding experience to Azure Security Center. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Security Center’s Cross...
View ArticleAccelerate innovation with Consulting Services in Azure Marketplace
We are excited to announce that Azure customers can now easily maximize the potential of the intelligent cloud through newly released Azure Marketplace Consulting Services offerings. This announcement...
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