Bringing hybrid cloud Java and Spring apps to Azure and Azure Stack
Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform conference, which started yesterday in San Francisco. SpringOne Platform is a premier destination for enterprise developers...
View ArticleAnnouncing the general availability of B-Series and M-Series
In addition to the new Lv2 size announcement from earlier today, I am also excited to share two GA sizes available today: We’re announcing general availability (GA) of the B-Series VMs. We are...
View ArticleOn the biases in data
Whether we're developing statistical models, training machine learning recognizers, or developing AI systems, we start with data. And while the suitability of that data set is, lamentably, sometimes...
View ArticleIntroducing the Web Media Extension Package with OGG Vorbis and Theora...
We’ve heard requests from many of our customers to support additional open-source formats in order to access a broader set of content on the web. To address this, ,we recently added support for the...
View ArticleJoin Us to Learn How to Build Android 8.0 Oreo and iOS 11 apps with Visual...
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View ArticleMigrating your existing .NET application to the cloud? Tell us about it!
Hi everyone! The .NET team is conducting a survey to learn more about your approach for moving existing .NET applications to the cloud. The survey should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Take the...
View ArticleControl how your files are cached on Azure CDN using caching rules
Content Delivery Networks (CDN) help bring your content closer to your users all over the world. One key way the CDN improves latency is by intelligently caching files on CDN edge servers located in...
View ArticleConnect your applications to Azure with Open Service Broker for Azure
I’m excited to announce today a preview of the Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA), an implementation of the Open Service Broker API for Azure services. In a multi-cloud, multi-platform world,...
View ArticleAzure brings new Serverless and DevOps capabilities to the Kubernetes community
Starting today, the Kubernetes community comes together at KubeCon in Austin, Texas, with the goal of making it easier than ever to use containers to modernize existing applications and manage new...
View ArticlePerformance best practices for using Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Database services for PostgreSQL and MySQL at Build 2017 which is a simple, fully managed database service for PostgreSQL and MySQL that removes the...
View Article#AzureSQLDW cost savings with Autoscaler – part 2
This blog post was co-authored by Eldad Hagashi, Software Engineering Manager, and Feng Tan, Software Engineer, Microsoft Education Data Service. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft’s SQL analytics...
View Articlecloud-init for RHEL 7.4 and CentOS 7.4 preview
cloud-init is an increasingly popular way to configure Linux VMs. Today we are pleased to announce a preview of provisioning RHEL 7.4 and CentOS 7.4 using cloud-init. This will allow you to migrate...
View ArticleSnapshot Debugging with Visual Studio 2017: Now Ready for Production
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View ArticleWindows Template Studio 1.5 released
We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.5. In this release, we finalized our work for localization, added in some new features, and started work on a bunch of new features and...
View ArticleThe British Ecological Society’s Guide to Reproducible Science
The British Ecological Society has published a new volume in their Guides to Better Science series: A Guide to Reproducible Code in Ecology and Evolution (pdf). The introduction, by , describes its...
View ArticleJava: Manage Azure Container Service (AKS) and more
We released 1.4 of the Azure Management Libraries for Java. This release adds support for Azure Container Service (AKS) and more. https://github.com/azure/azure-libraries-for-java Getting started Add...
View ArticlePartners enhance Kubernetes support for Azure and Windows Server Containers
Yesterday, Microsoft made some exciting announcements about new serverless and DevOps capabilities we’ll be contributing to the community. We announced Virtual Kubelet, the next version Kubernetes...
View ArticleAzure Application Architecture Guide
We've talked to many customers since Azure was released nearly eight years ago. Back then, Azure had only a few services. Now it's grown tremendously and keeps expanding. Cloud computing itself also...
View ArticleWhat’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: December 2017 Digest
This month I have a lot to cover. Since my last post, we’ve shipped three sprints of features, and we had a very successful Connect(); event in November. Let’s dive right in. Connect(); The Connect();...
View ArticleFree eBook – The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure now available
Today, we are pleased to introduce a free eBook titled, The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure second edition. The book was written by Michael Crump and Barry Luijbregts to help you on your journey...
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