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Monitoring Azure SQL Data Sync using OMS Log Analytics
Azure SQL Data Sync is a solution which enables customers to easily synchronize data either bidirectionally or unidirectionally between multiple Azure SQL databases and/or on-premises SQL Databases....
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Ready for JavaOne: Bringing Java and Kubernetes together in Azure
The Java team at Microsoft has been working hard during this year, collaborating with Java customers and developers around the globe to optimize the Java developer experience in Azure. In the last few...
View ArticleR 3.4.2 is released
The R Core team today announced the release of R 3.4.2. This release fixes a number of minor bugs and also includes a performance improvement to the commonly-used function c when applied to vectors...
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Tabs vs Spaces – A peaceful resolution with EditorConfig in Visual...
The culture wars continue. The country is divided with no end in sight. Tabs or spaces? There's even an insane (IMHO) assertion that the spaces people make more money. I'm going with Gina Trapani on...
View Article.NET Framework 4.7.1 Runtime and Compiler Features
This post describes the new Runtime, Compiler and Base Class Library (BCL) improvements in the .NET Framework 4.7.1. You can try out these features by downloading the Developer Pack, described in the...
View ArticleChef brings Habitat to VSTS, and Agile Extensions makes editing your backlog...
This month I have two extensions that I am excited about. Chef, who earlier this year released their core set of CI/CD tasks for working with Chef, is adding a new extension that connects VSTS with...
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Microsoft Edge extensions, one year later
It has been a little more than a year since Microsoft first shipped the number one requested feature for Microsoft Edge – extensions! Today, we are excited to share a few updates on the progress we...
View ArticleConvert hand-drawn equations to LaTeX with the mathpix package
Statistics involves a lot of mathematics, so one of the nice things about report-generation systems for R like Rmarkdown is that it makes it easy to include nicely-formatted equations by using the...
View ArticleIdiomatic Python: functions versus classes
In Python, everything is an object. Compared to Java which forces you to code everything in an object-oriented programming style but still has the concept of primitive types which are not objects on...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.09.29
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Creating a CI/CD pipeline on Azure Container Services with Kubernetes and...
View ArticleUsing the latest NuGet in your build
NuGet (both the command-line tool and the accompanying tools built into Visual Studio) continues to iterate rapidly and add support for new .NET Core and .NET Standard target frameworks, among other...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Big Little Songs
I really enjoyed the HBO Series Big Little Lies: fantastic story, writing and acting, and while I do wish it had been set in the original Sydney, the transplanted Monterey location was admittedly a...
View ArticleJoin us for the Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour
Now that Ignite is over, we can all roll up our sleeves and start using all the new services and features in Azure. The Azure Red Shirt Dev Tour is for developers who want to receive detailed advice...
View ArticleAzure is the Enterprise Cloud – highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2017
This is my favorite week of the year – spending five action packed days with customers, hearing what they are doing, and digging into their technology roadmaps. My discussions ranged from containers to...
View ArticleData Integrity in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft takes data integrity very seriously. While there are some traditional techniques used by DBAs in SQL Server to monitor data integrity (e.g. DBCC CHECKDB) and various methods to recover from...
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Business AI Tops the SQuAD Leader Board
Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is a relatively new part of natural language processing (NLP) and is an important part of AI that researchers around the world are working on. The MRC research...
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Bing Maps Distance Matrix API Launches Today
At Microsoft Ignite we announced the Bing Maps Distance Matrix API solution, a service that provides travel time and distances for a set of origins and destinations. Today, we are happy to announce...
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Announcing new Azure VM images: SQL Server 2017 on Linux and Windows
We are excited to announce that SQL Server 2017 images on Linux and Windows are now available in the Azure Marketplace! Deploying SQL Server in Azure VMs combines the industry-leading performance and...
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TypeScript Turns 5
This past weekend marked 5 full years since we released TypeScript publicly! Just half a decade ago, we announced our project with the ambitious goal of “getting JavaScript development to scale.” At...
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Comparing assault death rates in the US to other advanced democracies
In an effort to provide context to the frequent mass shootings in the United States, Kieran Healy (Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University) created this updated chart comparing assault...
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