Qubole customers now gain insights from Azure Data Lake
Azure Data Lake provides one of the easiest ways to build an enterprise data lake. With Qubole’s latest release of Qubole Data Service (QDS), their customers can now land data of any size, structured...
View ArticleBing Chases Inspiration with photographer Devesh Tripathi
At Bing, we get inspired by people accomplishing great things with our intelligent search, and in turn we learn from them so we can continue to deliver new, empowering experiences. That’s why we’re so...
View ArticleJava: Manage availability zones and more
We released 1.3 of the Azure Management Libraries for Java. This release adds support for availability zones (in preview). https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java Getting started Add the following...
View ArticleMicrosoft Edge for iOS and Android: What developers need to know
As you may have read on the Windows Experience blog, Joe Belfiore announced today that Microsoft Edge is coming to iOS and Android, bringing the best browsing experience on Windows 10 to more pockets...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: September 2017 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from September of particular interest to R users. The mathpix package converts images of hand-drawn equations to their LaTeX equivalent. R 3.4.2 is...
View ArticleWindows 10 IoT enables the complete IoT lifecycle
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of the Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service. The Device Provisioning Service is a new service that works with Azure IoT Hub to enable “zero-touch”...
View Article7 Hidden Gems in Visual Studio 2017
I’ve been working on developer tooling for over 16 years, and I still love it when I find a new tip or trick that shaves seconds off a repetitive task. The set below are features that I see...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.10.06
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Team Services – Use one build definition to build all branches &...
View ArticleA cRossword about R
The members of the R Ladies DC user group put together an R-themed crossword for a recent networking event. It's a fun way to test out your R knowledge. (Click to enlarge, or download a printable...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Death Risk
Humans are notoriously bad at understanding risk, and perceptions of danger can vary wildly depending on how the possibility is presented. (David Spiegelhalter recently published an excellent review...
View ArticleLearning about the F# SAFE stack – Suave.io, Azure, Fable, Elmish
Last month I looked at a Functional Web with ASP.NET Core and F#'s Giraffe. Giraffe is F# middleware that takes ASP.NET Core's pipeline in a new direction with a functional perspective. However,...
View ArticleDevOps with Azure and VSTS: Videos from Ignite 2017
The Visual Studio Team Services team just got back from Microsoft Ignite, and we had the opportunity to talk to so many people about VSTS and DevOps. But if you weren’t able to make it to Ignite, you...
View ArticlePoint-to-Site (P2S) connection using OpenVPN infrastructure
One question that we are frequently asked is to establish a Point-to-Site (P2S) connection from a client computer based on a Unix-like operating system (like Linux and FreeBSD) and the Virtual Network...
View ArticleHow Azure Security Center uses machine learning to enable adaptive...
While the threat landscape has changed dramatically over the last several years, malware detection continues to be one of the biggest issues. There is an endless race - attackers develop new malware,...
View ArticleAnnouncing Azure Files share snapshots public preview
Azure Files offers fully managed cloud file shares, and extends the ability of organizations to share files across on-premises and the cloud. With support for industry standard SMB protocol, this...
View ArticleAnnouncing dplyrXdf 1.0
I’m delighted to announce the release of version 1.0.0 of the dplyrXdf package. dplyrXdf began as a simple (relatively speaking) backend to dplyr for Microsoft Machine Learning Server/Microsoft R...
View ArticleAnnouncing SignalR for ASP.NET Core Alpha 2
A few weeks ago we released the alpha1 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. Today we are pleased to announce a release of the alpha2 version of SignalR for ASP.NET Core 2.0. This release contains a...
View ArticleQuarterly Microsoft Azure SOC reports: Compliance at warp speed
Responding to customers’ need for speed, Microsoft Azure has published six new Service Organization Control (SOC) reports, just three months after the previously issued reports. Azure is the first and...
View ArticleMonitor your Azure IoT solutions with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health
Azure IoT Hub is now fully integrated with Azure Monitor and Azure Resource Health to provide you with rich, frequent data about the operations of your Azure IoT Hub, and diagnose problems quickly. We...
View ArticleScale up your deep learning with Batch AI preview
Imagine reducing your training time for an epoch from 30 minutes to 30 seconds, and testing many different hyper-parameter weights in parallel. Available now, in public preview, Batch AI is a new...
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