What’s new in VSTS Sprint 137 Update
The Sprint 137 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) has rolled out to all organizations. In this Update, both Microsoft-hosted Linux and macOS agents, as well as Azure DevOps Projects are now...
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Visual Studio Code C/C++ extension July 2018 Update and IntelliSense...
Last week we shipped the July 2018 update to the C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code. In this update we added support for a new experimental API that allows build system extensions to pass...
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Blazor 0.5.0 experimental release now available
Blazor 0.5.0 is now available! This release explores scenarios where Blazor is run in a separate process from the rendering process. Specifically, Blazor 0.5.0 enables the option to run Blazor on the...
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Azure App Service now supports Java SE on Linux
Lately there have been a whole lot of changes to Java and its vibrant communities. Now shared between Oracle for Java SE and Eclipse Foundation for Jakarta EE (formerly Java EE), Java continues to be...
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Security Center’s adaptive application controls are generally available
Azure Security Center provides several threat prevention mechanisms to help you reduce surface areas susceptible to attack. One of those mechanisms is adaptive application controls. Today we are...
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Orchestrating production-grade workloads with Azure Kubernetes Service
Happy Birthday Kubernetes! In the short three years that Kubernetes has been around, it has become the industry standard for orchestration of containerized workloads. In Azure, we have spent the last...
View ArticleMarketplace news from Inspire 2018
Did you miss Inspire in Las Vegas this month? Here is your quick recap of what announcements we made regarding Microsoft’s cloud marketplace. Marketplace continues to be a big investment and focus area...
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How to move your e-commerce infrastructure to Azure
Retailers everywhere have started moving parts of their business to Azure. When looking at moving more of the data center into Azure, teams can see the current state, and the end state. At the end...
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Avoid Big Data pitfalls with Azure HDInsight and these partner solutions
According to a Gartner 2017 prediction, “60 percent of big data projects will fail to go beyond piloting and experimentation, these projects will be abandoned”. Whether you worked on an analytical...
View ArticleAnnouncing F# 4.5 Preview
We’re very excited to announce that we’ll be shipping a new language version of F# soon. The version will be F# 4.5. F# 4.5 has been developed entirely via an open RFC (requests for comments) process,...
View ArticleCurrent use cases for machine learning in healthcare
Machine learning (ML) is causing quite the buzz at the moment, and it’s having a huge impact on healthcare. Payers, providers, and pharmaceutical companies are all seeing applicability in their spaces...
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Feeding IoT Device Telemetry Data to Kafka-based Applications
With the newly released support for Kafka streams in Event Hubs, it is now possible for Azure IoT Hub customers to easily feed their IoT device telemetry data into Kafka-based applications for further...
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Feeding IoT device telemetry data to Kafka-based applications
With the newly released support for Kafka streams in Event Hubs, it is now possible for Azure IoT Hub customers to easily feed their IoT device telemetry data into Kafka-based applications for further...
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How to enhance HDInsight security with service endpoints
HDInsight enterprise customers work with some of the most sensitive data in the world. They want to be able to lock down access to this data at the networking layer as well. However, while service...
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SQL Server on Linux or in Docker plus cross-platform SQL Operations Studio
I recently met some folks that didn't know that SQL Server 2017 also runs on Linux but they really needed to know. They had a single Windows desktop and a single Windows Server that they were keeping...
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Bing Maps Routing API knows the shortest route that visits all waypoints!
Often referred to as ‘the traveling salesman problem’, planning how to most efficiently travel to a number of stops is an age-old problem. It’s difficult enough to optimize the stops for a single...
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aRt with code
Looking for something original to decorate your wall? Art With Code, created by Harvard University bioinformatician Jean Fan, provides a collection of R scripts to generate artistic images in the style...
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Because it’s Friday: Street Orientation
Most cities in the US have a grid-based street structure. But it's rarely a perfect grid: sometimes the vagaries of history, geography, or convenience lead to deviations from right angles. And...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.07.27
For many of us in the northern hemisphere, things are really heating up — both the temperature and the move into DevOps in the cloud. This week we saw some great posts on DevOps adoption, including...
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How to upgrade your financial analysis capabilities with Azure
In corporate finance and investment banking, risk analysis is a crucial job. To assess risk, analysts review research, monitor economic and social conditions, stay informed of regulations, and create...
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