R/Finance 2018, Chicago June 1-2
The tenth annual R/Finance conference will be held in Chicago, June 1-2 2018. This is a fantastic conference for anyone working with R in the finance industry, or doing research around R in finance in...
View ArticleJoin us for an AMA on Azure Stack
This post is authored by Natalia Mackevicius Partner Director for Azure Infrastructure & Management, Azure Stack, Vijay Tewari Principle Group Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Stack, and Bradley...
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Automatic tuning introduces Automatic plan correction and T-SQL management
Azure SQL Database automatic tuning, industry’s first truly auto-tuning database based on Artificial Intelligence, is now providing more flexibility and power with the global introduction of the...
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Introducing Azure Automation watcher tasks public preview
Azure Automation has the ability to integrate and automate processes across Azure and on-premises environments using a hybrid worker. This hybrid management capability has been extended to now deliver...
View ArticleElastic database tools for Java
We are excited to announce the release of a new version of the Elastic Database Client Library for Azure SQL database supporting Java. The client library provides tools to help developers scale out the...
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Announcing Azure Location Based Services public preview
Today we announced the Public Preview availability of Azure Location Based Services (LBS). LBS is a portfolio of geospatial service APIs natively integrated into Azure that enable developers,...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Migrating VMWare environments to Azure, and more
Due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, last week was a light news week for Azure. But that doesn’t mean nothing new was announced. On Tuesday, Corey Sanders announced new services that will make it...
View ArticleHow to make Python easier for the R user: revoscalepy
by Siddarth Ramesh, Data Scientist, Microsoft I’m an R programmer. To me, R has been great for data exploration, transformation, statistical modeling, and visualizations. However, there is a huge...
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New and improved Event and CSS inspection for Microsoft Edge DevTools
Editor’s note: This is the first post in a series highlighting what’s new and improved in the Microsoft Edge DevTools with EdgeHTML 16. EdgeHTML 16 is now rolling out to devices around the world as...
View ArticleImprove website performance by optimizing images
We all want our web applications to load as fast as possible to give the best possible experience to the users. One of the steps to achieve that is to make sure the images we use are as optimized as...
View ArticleVSTS Update – Nov 28
This week we will be deploying our sprint 126 work. This deployment is probably one of the most complicated in a while. Quite a lot of it actually rolled out at our Connect(); event the week before...
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Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs
We are pleased to announce that Azure Analysis Services is integrated with Azure Monitor Resource Diagnostic Logs. Diagnostic logging is a key feature for IT owned BI implementations. We have taken...
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Configuring HTTPS in ASP.NET Core across different platforms
As the web moves to be more secure by default, it’s more important than ever to make sure your websites have HTTPS enabled. And if you’re going to use HTTPS in production its a good idea to develop...
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How to download embedded videos with F12 Tools in your browser
I got an email this week asking how to download some of my Azure Friday video podcast videos from http://friday.azure.com as well as some of the Getting Started Videos from Azure.com.NOTE: Respect...
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How to generate a Secret Santa list with R
Several recent blog posts have explored the Secret Santa problem and provided solutions in R. This post provides a roundup of various solutions and how they are implemented in R. If you wanted to set...
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ADL Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) supports Python & R Programming
We are thrilled to introduce support for Azure Data Lake (ADL) Python and R extensions within Visual Studio Code (VSCode). This means you can easily add Python or R scripts as custom code extensions in...
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R 3.4.3 released
R 3.4.3 has been released, as announced by the R Core team today. As of this writing, only the source distribution (for those that build R themselves) is available, but binaries for Windows, Mac and...
View ArticleNovember extensions round-up: Actionable Insights for Agile teams and a...
The round-up is back for November! I’m sorry for not posting in October. My wife and I welcomed our second child, a girl, into the world. I was at home spending time with them because they grow up so...
View ArticleAnnouncing public preview of Wiki search
Search wiki pages Over time as teams document more content in wiki pages, finding relevant content becomes increasingly difficult. To maximize collaboration, you need the ability to easily discover...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.01
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES #LearningVSTS – Creating My First Visual Studio Team Services Site and Team...
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