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Azure #CosmosDB: Recap of 2017
It was a pretty amazing year for Azure Cosmos DB, highlighted by the launch of the service, the preview and general availability of Graph, Table APIs, MongoDB API, native Spark connector and many...
View ArticleMigration checklist when moving to Azure App Service
I have been continuously getting requests from customers, colleagues and partners around what to consider when migrating applications to Azure PaaS service but more specifically to the App Service....
View ArticleAzure Analysis Services features on Azure Friday
Built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade BI semantic modeling capabilities with the scale, flexibility, and...
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Azure Data Lake tools integrates with VSCode Data Lake Explorer and Azure...
If you are a data scientist and want to explore the data and understand what is being saved and what the hierarchy of the folder is, please try Data Lake Explorer in VSCode ADL Tools. If you are a...
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Build richer apps with your time series data
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of new TSI developer tools, including an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template, API code samples, and easy-to-follow documentation for developers. TSI’s...
View ArticleNetwork virtualization using SCVMM and TFS/VSTS for your Build-Deploy-Test...
Network Virtualization Network Virtualization provides ability to create multiple virtual networks on a shared physical network. Each tenant gets a complete isolated virtual network, which includes...
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Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure
I'm excited to announce that the AzureCAT patterns and practices team has published new guidance about microservices titled Designing, building, and operating microservices on Azure. Microservices have...
View ArticleMake your R code run faster
There are lots of tricks you can use to make R code run faster: use more efficient data structures; vectorize your R code; offload complex data management tasks to databases. Emily Robinson shares many...
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Geocoding and Routing improvements added to Bing Maps
Geocoding and Routing are core services in mapping platforms. Today, the Bing Maps team is happy to announce improved algorithms and increased coverage support for these services, which also directly...
View ArticleSecuring Azure customers from CPU vulnerability
An industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability was disclosed today. Keeping customers secure is always our top priority and we are taking active steps to ensure that no Azure customer is...
View ArticleMitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and...
Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution side-channel attacks. These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running...
View ArticleAsynchronous refresh with the REST API for Azure Analysis Services
Azure Analysis Services unlocks datasets with potentially billions of rows for non-technical business users to perform interactive analysis. Such large datasets can benefit from features such as...
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Whitepaper: Selecting the right secure hardware for your IoT deployment
How do you go about answering those perplexing questions such as what secure hardware to use? How do I gauge the level of security? How much security do I really need and hence how much premium should...
View ArticleUsing Qubole Data Service on Azure to analyze retail customer feedback
It has been a busy season for many retailers. During this time, retailers are using Azure to analyze various types of data to help accelerate purchasing decisions. The Azure cloud not only gives...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Throughput Improvements and Advice
As C++ programs get larger and larger and the optimizer becomes more complex the compiler’s build time, or throughput, increasingly comes into focus. It’s something that needs to be continually...
View ArticleDivide and parallelize large data problems with Rcpp
by Błażej Moska, computer science student and data science intern Got stuck with too large a dataset? R speed drives you mad? Divide, parallelize and go with Rcpp! One of the frustrating moments while...
View ArticleMaximize your VM’s Performance with Accelerated Networking – now generally...
We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) is generally available (GA) and widely available for Windows and the latest distributions of Linux providing up to 30Gbps in networking...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.05
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Tag your GitHub source code in VSTS pipeline – Mikael KriefTo allow me to...
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Because it’s Friday: Harry Potter was the time to come
Type "Harry Potter" as a text on your phone. Now press the predictive text button a few times. I got "Harry Potter was the time to come", but my phone has been trained on my texts and you'll likely get...
View ArticleAnnouncing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4
Today we are releasing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at...
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