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Five more reasons why you should download the Azure mobile app
This post was co-authored by Ilse Terrazas Ortega, Program Manager, Azure mobile app You may have already heard about the Azure mobile app at the Build conference back in May 2017. The app lets you...
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Paxata launches Self-Service Data Preparation on Azure HDInsight to...
We are pleased to announce the expansion of HDInsight Application Platform to include Paxata, a leading self-service data preparation offering. You can get this offering now at Azure Marketplace and...
View ArticleAzure Site Recovery powers new Managed DR offerings by Microsoft Partners
Today we are excited to announce that two of our Microsoft partners, Rackspace and CDW, now offer Azure Site Recovery as a managed DR solution for customers. Rackspace, with over 15 years of Microsoft...
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Introducing HDInsight integration with Azure Log Analytics Preview
Operating Big Data applications successfully at scale is key consideration for our enterprise customers. Typical Big Data applications span across multiple different technologies, as well as operating...
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Azure Analysis Services adds firewall support
We are pleased to introduce firewall support for Azure Analysis Services. By using the new firewall feature, customers can lock down their Azure Analysis Services (Azure AS) servers to accept network...
View ArticleAnnouncing Kentico Cloud Solution in Azure Marketplace
Kentico Cloud is a cloud-first Headless CMS for digital agencies and end clients. We’re excited to announce that its sample site is now available in the Azure Marketplace. With such a solution, your...
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What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: September 2017 Digest
Visual Studio Team Services offers the best DevOps tooling to create an efficient continuous integration and release pipeline to Azure. This month we’ll take a look at support Git forks, multi-phase...
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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...
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