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Debug Spark Code Running in Azure HDInsight from Your Desktop
This month’s IntelliJ HDInsight Tools release delivers a robust remote debugging engine for Spark running in the Azure cloud. The Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ is available for users running Spark to...
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Hortonworks extends IaaS offering on Azure with Cloudbreak
This blog post is co-authored by Peter Darvasi, Engineer, Hortonworks. We are excited to announce the availability of Cloudbreak for Hortonworks Data Platform on Azure Marketplace. Hortonworks Data...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Data Lake Store Capture Provider for Event Hubs Capture
Event Hubs Capture went to generally availability in June 2017. To this feature, we are adding Azure Data Lake Store as a new Capture provider. Yes, you can now choose your Azure Data Lake Store to...
View ArticleDefault compatibility level 140 for Azure SQL databases
As of today, the default compatibility level for new databases created in Azure SQL Database is 130. Very soon, we’ll be changing the Azure SQL Database default compatibility level for newly created...
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Preview: SQL Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key support
We’re glad to announce the preview of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support for Azure SQL Database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse! Now you can have control of the keys...
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New WinDbg available in preview!
We are excited to announce a preview version of a brand new WinDbg. We’ve update WinDbg to have more modern visuals, faster windows, a full-fledged scripting experience, built with the easily...
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Packages to simplify mapping in R
Computerworld's Sharon Machlis has published a very useful tutorial on creating geographic data maps with R. (The tutorial was actually published back in March, but I only came across it recently.)...
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Integrate Azure Stack into your datacenter
Now that you’ve ordered Azure Stack, how do you integrate it into your datacenter? What are the integration touchpoints? Introduction Microsoft Azure Stack is an integrated system available from...
View ArticleThe week in .NET – Let’s Encrypt Web App Renewer, Seattle CodeCamp 2017
Previous posts: Project File Tools, Maira Wenzel, Mixed Reality in Miami .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, Entity Framework 2.0, Visual Studio 2017 Update 3, enterprise Entity Framework Core in Boston...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Blob storage events preview
In conjunction with the recently announced Azure Event Grid preview, we are pleased to announce the preview of Azure Blob storage events. Azure Blob storage is a massively-scalable object storage...
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Stream Processing Changes: #Azure #CosmosDB change feed + Apache Spark
Azure Cosmos DB: Ingestion and storage all-in-one Azure Cosmos DB is a blazing fast, globally distributed, multi-model database service. Regardless of where your customers are, they can access data...
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SMB Version 1 disabled Azure Gallery Windows operating system images
The Azure security team has recently driven some changes into the default behavior of Windows operating system images that are available in the Azure gallery. These changes are in response to recent...
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VSTS Update – Aug 28
This week we began rolling out our sprint 122 update for Visual Studio Team Services. Check out the release notes for details. There are a couple of things I want to call out. Work item rules – Work...
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Experimental: Reducing the size of .NET Core applications with Mono’s...
The .NET team has built a linker to reduce the size of .NET Core applications. It is built on top of the excellent and battle-tested mono linker. The Xamarin tools also use this linker so it makes...
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3-D animations with R
R is often used to visualize and animate 2-dimensional data. (Here are just a few examples.) But did you know you can create 3-dimensional animations as well? As Thomas Lins Pedersen explains in a...
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Visual Studio extensions for C++ developers in Visual Studio 2017
In this blogpost we want to highlight several Visual Studio extensions that can make your life better as a C++ developer if you’re using Visual Studio 2017 or considering upgrading. We have also...
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Announcing Deploy to Kubernetes & Azure Container Service and Container...
Continuous Deployment plugins for Kubernetes and Azure Container Service We have created a Azure Container Service (ACS) plugin for Jenkins, so that no matter which ACS orchestrator you have chosen,...
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What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: August 2017 Digest
This post series provides the latest updates and news for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and is a great way for Azure users to keep up-to-date with new features being released every three weeks....
View ArticleAzure Management Libraries for Java – v1.2
We released 1.2 of the Azure Management Libraries for Java. This release adds support for additional security and deployment features, and more Azure services: Managed service identity Create users in...
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New performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database
We are pleased to announce the public preview of new performance levels and storage add-ons in Azure SQL Database. These new choices enable further price optimization opportunities for CPU intensive...
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