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#FuelMyAwesome Asks: What Gets You In the Code Zone?
#FuelMyAwesome is a salute to coding and creating. It’s a celebration of the awesome work you do, and the awesome ways you do it. A chance for us to recognize those of you who put all you’ve got into...
View ArticlePerformance Improvements in .NET Core
There are many exciting aspects to .NET Core (open source, cross platform, x-copy deployable, etc.) that have been covered in posts on this blog before. To me, though, one of the most exciting aspects...
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How to create dot-density maps in R
Choropleths are a common approach to visualizing data on geographic maps. But choropleths — by design or necessity — aggregate individual data points into a single geographic region (like a country or...
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Azure #CosmosDB: Case study around RU/min with the Universal Store Team
Karthik Tunga Gopinath, from the Universal Store Team at Microsoft, leveraged RU/min to optimize the entire workload provisioning with Azure Cosmos DB. He is sharing his experience on this blog. The...
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Announcing Storage Service Encryption with Customer Managed Keys limited preview
Today, we are excited to announce the Preview of Azure Storage Service Encryption with Customer Managed Keys integrated with Azure Key Vault for Azure Blob Storage. Azure customers already benefit from...
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Optimizing Performance of Azure SQL Data Warehouse with SentryOne
There is constant talk about big data; endless marketing decks, whitepapers, and blog posts about how fast data is multiplying on-premise and in the cloud. In many cases, familiar database...
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Running OpenBSD on Azure
As you know, Microsoft has officially supported FreeBSD virtual machine (VM) running on Azure since 2014 and last year Microsoft announced the availability of FreeBSD 10.3 as a ready-made VM image in...
View ArticleTFS 2017 Update 2 RC1 is now available
Yesterday, we released the first release candidate for TFS 2017 Update 2 (TFS 2017.2). This is a “go-live” release and is ready to be used in production environments. We’ve already installed it on 2...
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Trying .NET Core on Linux with just a tarball (without apt-get)
There's a great post on the .NET Blog about the crazy Performance Improvements in .NET Core that ended up on Hacker News. The top comment on HN is a great one that points out that the http://dot.net...
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What does an Agile/DevOps organization look like?
I want to share an experience that highlights why I am so proud of the organization I work in. The experience is expressed in the form of an email thread that I had this week. Times/timezones are a...
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Let’s make some hay!
Spring is hay season and it puts a significant strain on my managing the balance between work and farm. For the past several weeks, I’ve been stealing away every spare minute I can to cut, rake, bale...
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Run massive parallel R jobs cheaply with updated doAzureParallel package
At the EARL conference in San Francisco this week, JS Tan from Microsoft gave an update (PDF slides here) on the doAzureParallel package . As we've noted here before, this package allows you to easily...
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Deploying Applications to Azure Container Service
In this blog post I will show you how to setup continuous delivery of a dockerized app by using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to a Kubernetes cluster running in ACS. Azure Container Service (ACS)...
View ArticleSchedule for useR!2017 now available
The full schedule of talks for useR!2017, the global R user conference, has now been posted. The conference will feature 16 tutorials, 6 keynotes, 141 full talks, and 86 lightning talks starting on...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Subway maps to scale
Many subway maps are masterpieces of information design, but inevitably make compromises in geographic fidelity for clarity. Inspired by a viral post on Reddit, you can now find a collection of subway...
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LLBLGen Pro for .NET and .NET Core – Database Entity Modeling with any ORM
There's opinionated frameworks, and then there's opinionated frameworks that also respect your opinion. LLBLGen is one of those. For many years it's been a great entity modeling tool as well as an...
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Microsoft Announces Virtual Event: Azure OpenDev on June 21st
Whether it is to drive agility, develop new skills, or engage and scale through community, open source is at the core of how developers deliver value in a cloud world. I can clearly see this...
View ArticleEvent Hubs Auto-Inflate, take control of your scale
Azure Event Hubs is a hyper-scalable telemetry ingestion service that can ingest millions of events per second. It gives a distributed streaming platform with low latency and configurable time...
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.NET Fringe: A Great Role Model for Community Oriented Conferences
A few of us just went to a smaller .NET conference in Portland, called .NET Fringe. For me, it was the third time I attended .NET Fringe. I’ve realized that this conference has gained a special place...
View ArticleAnnouncing TypeScript 2.4 RC
Today we’re releasing our RC of TypeScript 2.4. To get started with the latest stable version of TypeScript, you can grab it through NuGet, or use the following command with npm: npm install -g...
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