Make your R code run faster
There are lots of tricks you can use to make R code run faster: use more efficient data structures; vectorize your R code; offload complex data management tasks to databases. Emily Robinson shares many...
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Geocoding and Routing improvements added to Bing Maps
Geocoding and Routing are core services in mapping platforms. Today, the Bing Maps team is happy to announce improved algorithms and increased coverage support for these services, which also directly...
View ArticleSecuring Azure customers from CPU vulnerability
An industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability was disclosed today. Keeping customers secure is always our top priority and we are taking active steps to ensure that no Azure customer is...
View ArticleMitigating speculative execution side-channel attacks in Microsoft Edge and...
Today, Google Project Zero published details of a class of vulnerabilities which can be exploited by speculative execution side-channel attacks. These techniques can be used via JavaScript code running...
View ArticleAsynchronous refresh with the REST API for Azure Analysis Services
Azure Analysis Services unlocks datasets with potentially billions of rows for non-technical business users to perform interactive analysis. Such large datasets can benefit from features such as...
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Whitepaper: Selecting the right secure hardware for your IoT deployment
How do you go about answering those perplexing questions such as what secure hardware to use? How do I gauge the level of security? How much security do I really need and hence how much premium should...
View ArticleUsing Qubole Data Service on Azure to analyze retail customer feedback
It has been a busy season for many retailers. During this time, retailers are using Azure to analyze various types of data to help accelerate purchasing decisions. The Azure cloud not only gives...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2017 Throughput Improvements and Advice
As C++ programs get larger and larger and the optimizer becomes more complex the compiler’s build time, or throughput, increasingly comes into focus. It’s something that needs to be continually...
View ArticleDivide and parallelize large data problems with Rcpp
by Błażej Moska, computer science student and data science intern Got stuck with too large a dataset? R speed drives you mad? Divide, parallelize and go with Rcpp! One of the frustrating moments while...
View ArticleMaximize your VM’s Performance with Accelerated Networking – now generally...
We are happy to announce that Accelerated Networking (AN) is generally available (GA) and widely available for Windows and the latest distributions of Linux providing up to 30Gbps in networking...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.01.05
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics. TOP STORIES Tag your GitHub source code in VSTS pipeline – Mikael KriefTo allow me to...
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Because it’s Friday: Harry Potter was the time to come
Type "Harry Potter" as a text on your phone. Now press the predictive text button a few times. I got "Harry Potter was the time to come", but my phone has been trained on my texts and you'll likely get...
View ArticleAnnouncing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4
Today we are releasing Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 5.2.4, Web API 5.2.4, and Web Pages 3.2.4 on NuGet. This release contains some minor bug fixes and a couple of new features specifically targeted at...
View ArticleVSTS will no longer allow creation of new MSA users with custom domain names...
On September 15, 2016, the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) team blocked the ability to create new Microsoft accounts using email addresses in domains that are configured in Azure AD. Many VSTS...
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ASP.NET Single Page Applications Angular Release Candidate
I was doing some Angular then remembered that the ASP.NET "Angular Project Template" has a release candidate and is scheduled to release sometime soon in 2018. Starting with just a .NET Core 2.0...
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#Azure #SQLDW, the cost benefits of an on-demand data warehousing
Prices illustrated below are based on East US 2 as December 18th, 2017. For price changes updates, visit Azure Analysis Services, SQL Database, and SQL Data Warehouse pricing pages. Azure SQL Data...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Securing Azure infrastructure from CPU vulnerability, and...
As we ushered in 2018, our industry was busy responding to an industry-wide, hardware-based security vulnerability related to CPU data cache timing. We updated the Azure infrastructure to address this...
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Visual Studio Code Java Debugger Adding Step Filter and Expression Evaluation
Happy new year! We’d like to thank you all for using Visual Studio Code for your Java development as well as for sharing your feedback. Within just three months, we’ve published 5 releases for our...
View ArticleLearn your way around the R ecosystem
One of the most powerful things about R is the ecosystem that has emerged around it. In addition to the R language itself and the many packages that extend it, you have a network of users, developers,...
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Exploring the Azure IoT Arduino Cloud DevKit
Someone gave me an Azure IoT DevKit, and it was lovely timing as I'm continuing to learn about IoT. As you may know, I've done a number of Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects, and plugged them into...
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