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Setting up a managed container cluster with AKS and Kubernetes in the Azure...
After building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster, I wanted to see how quickly I could get up to speed on Kubernetes in Azure. I installed the Azure CLI (Command Line Interface) in a few minutes - works...
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An introduction to seplyr
by John Mount, Win-Vector LLC seplyr is an R package that supplies improved standard evaluation interfaces for many common data wrangling tasks. The core of seplyr is a re-skinning of dplyr's...
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Visual Studio Updates for Office 365 APIs Tools
As we recently detailed on the Office Developer blog, we are making it simpler and easier for developers to connect to Office 365 through the Microsoft Graph. For Visual Studio developers currently...
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Python extension for Visual Studio Code version 0.9.0 now available
We’re excited to announce our first update to the Microsoft Python extension for Visual Studio Code. In this release, we’ve added additional support for conda environments and fixed numerous bugs in...
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Image Watch is now available for Visual Studio 2017
Image Watch is a Visual Studio extension that provides a watch window for viewing in-memory bitmaps when debugging native C++ code. It comes with built-in support for OpenCV image types (e.g. cv::Mat,...
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Bing Maps Launches Three New Fleet Management APIs
Today, we are pleased to announce the release of three new Fleet Management APIs – Truck Routing, Isochrones, and Snap-to-Road – all available with the Bing Maps V8 Web Control and REST services. These...
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Bing launches new intelligent search features, powered by AI
Today we announced new Intelligent Search features for Bing, powered by AI, to give you answers faster, give you more comprehensive and complete information, and enable you to interact more naturally...
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Twitter sentiment as a release gate
I’m really excited to talk about a new Twitter sentiment release gate extension in the Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) marketplace today. Before I say more, let me step back and give some context…...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2017.12.15
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES The fallacy of the rejected backlog item – Martin HinshelwoodThere is a...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Editing Star Wars
It's said that a movie is written three times: in the screenplay, in the filming, and finally in the editing. This video essay is about how Star Wars — the original 1977 release, that is — was...
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Visualizing your real-time blood sugar values AND a Git Prompt on Windows...
My buddy Nate become a Type 1 Diabetic a few weeks back. It sucks...I've been one for 25 years. Nate is like me - an engineer - and the one constant with all engineers that become diabetic, we try to...
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Bring your own vocabulary to Microsoft Video Indexer
Self-service customization for speech recognition Video Indexer (VI) now supports industry and business specific customization for automatic speech recognition (ASR) through integration with the...
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Azure HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics is now generally available
I am excited to announce the general availability of HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics. Azure HDInsight is a fully managed cloud service for customers to do analytics at scale using the...
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Announcing Apache Kafka for Azure HDInsight general availability
Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight was added last year as a preview service to help enterprises create real-time big data pipelines. Since then, large companies such as Toyota, Adobe, Bing Ads, and GE...
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Azure HDInsight announcements: Significant price reduction and amazing new...
Today, we are really happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Azure HDInsight service and making several awesome capabilities generally available. Launched in 2013, Azure HDInsight is a...
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Enterprise Security Package preview for Azure HDInsight
Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. Use the most popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark,...
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GDPR How-to: Get organized and implement the right processes
Achieving compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the new data privacy law from the European Union (EU), is not a one-time activity but is an ongoing process. When the GDPR goes...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Azure France regions, cost savings, and more
Two new Azure regions are now in preview in France: France Central in Paris, and France South in Marseille. These regions are part of Azure’s global portfolio of announced regions in 42 locations...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Bias, by Kate Crawford
Bias is a major issue in machine learning. But can we develop a system to "un-bias" the results? In this keynote at NIPS 2017, Kate Crawford argues that treating this as a technical problem means...
View ArticleVMware virtualization on Azure
We have had tons of interest in our VMware virtualization on Azure offering. This includes questions about what we are offering and how we will provide an enterprise grade solution. Here are some of...
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