Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.10.12
I’m back! One of the great privileges of my job is that I get to spend a lot of time talking to customers about DevOps. But that often means a lot of time on the road, and stepping away from drinking...
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The Economist’s Big Mac Index is calculated with R
The Economist's Big Mac Index (also described on Wikipedia if you're not a subscriber) was created (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) as a measure to compare the purchasing power of money in different...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Hey, it’s Enrico Pallazzo!
It seemed like such a simple movie. The Naked Gun (1988) is slapstick comedy through-and-through, but I never would have guessed (h/t Steven O'Grady) how much detail and planning went into the jokes,...
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C# and .NET Core scripting with the “dotnet-script” global tool
You likely know that open source .NET Core is cross platform and it's super easy to do "Hello World" and start writing some code. You just install .NET Core, then "dotnet new console" which will...
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Azure.Source – Volume 53
Now in preview Protect data in use with the public preview of Azure confidential computing - Years of work with our silicon vendors have allowed us to bring application isolation technology to hardware...
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Ingesting a data stream from NIST manufacturing lab data – Part 2
The Industry Experiences team has recently published a solution guide for extracting insights from existing IoT data. The solution consists of the following components. Ingesting data Hot path...
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IoT SWC 2018: IoT solutions for the built world
It’s amazing to see how IoT is transforming our customers’ businesses—from optimizing operations and reducing unplanned downtime with companies like Chevron, to powering new connected vehicle...
View ArticleAzure PowerShell – Cross-platform “Az” module replacing “AzureRM”
There is a new Azure PowerShell module, built to harness the power of PowerShell Core and Cloud Shell, and maintain compatibility with PowerShell 5.1. Its name is Az. Az ensures that PowerShell and...
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New metric in Azure Stream Analytics tracks latency of your streaming pipeline
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed service for real-time data processing. Stream Analytics jobs read data from input sources like Azure Event Hubs or IoT Hub. They can perform a variety of tasks...
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Sweet updates about Truffle on Azure
Development and deployment of Ethereum based applications, commonly referred to as DApps, can be a challenging task for developers. With over 1 million downloads, Truffle has proven to be a premier...
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Modernizing TLS connections in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11
Today, we’re announcing our intent to disable Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 by default in supported versions of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 in the first half of 2020. This...
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Detecting fileless attacks with Azure Security Center
As the security solutions get better at detecting attacks, attackers are increasingly employing stealthier methods to avoid detection. In Azure, we regularly see fileless attacks targeting our...
View ArticleGuidance for library authors
We’ve just published our first cut of the .NET Library Guidance. It’s brand new set of articles for .NET developers who want to create high-quality libraries for .NET. The guidance contains...
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Microsoft’s Developer Blogs are Getting an Update
In the coming days, we’ll be moving our developer blogs to a new platform with a modern, clean design and powerful features that will make it easy for you to discover and share great content. This...
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New prescriptive guidance for Open Source .NET Library Authors
There's a great new bunch of guidance just published representing Best Practices for creating .NET Libraries. Best of all, it was shepherded by JSON.NET's James Newton-King. Who better to help explain...
View ArticleA small logical change with big impact
In R, the logical || (OR) and && (AND) operators are unique in that they are designed only to work with scalar arguments. Typically used in statements like while(iter < 1000 && eps...
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Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 21
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From September 1 to 15, 29 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Virtual...
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Apache Spark jobs gain up to 9x speed up with HDInsight IO Cache
Today, we are pleased to reveal the preview of HDInsight IO Cache, a new transparent data caching feature of Azure HDInsight that provides customers with up to a 9x performance improvement for Apache...
View ArticleAccelerating AI in healthcare: Security, privacy, and compliance
Healthcare is drowning in data. Every patient brings a record that could span decades, with x-rays, MRIs, and other data that can affect every decision. Providers and payers bring their own collateral...
View ArticleStandard Library Algorithms: Changes and Additions in C++17
Today we have a guest post from Marc Gregoire, Software Architect at Nikon Metrology and Microsoft MVP since 2007. The C++14 standard already contains a wealth of different kinds of algorithms. C++17...
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