In case you missed it: April 2018 roundup
In case you missed them, here are some articles from April of particular interest to R users. Microsoft R Open 3.4.4, based on R 3.4.4, is now available. An R script by Ryan Timpe converts a photo into...
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 Go Live AND .NET Core 3.0 Futures
I just got back from the Microsoft BUILD Conference where Scott Hunter and I announced both .NET Core 2.1 RC1 AND talked about .NET Core 3.0 in the future. .NET Core 2.1 RC1 First, .NET Core 2.1's...
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Full-integrated experience simplifying Language Understanding in...
Creating an advanced conversational system is now a simple task with the powerful tools integrated into Microsoft’s Language Understanding Service (LUIS) and Bot Framework. LUIS brings together...
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Enhancements in Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger
We are pleased to announce a series of improvements on Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger. Profiler identifies the line of code that slowed down the web app performance under load....
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Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports automatic creation of statistics
We are pleased to announce that Azure SQL Data Warehouse (Azure SQL DW) now supports automatic creation of column level statistics. Azure SQL DW is a fast, flexible, and secure analytics platform for...
View ArticleSpark + AI Summit: Data scientists and engineers put their trust in Microsoft...
Microsoft will have a major presence at Spark + AI Summit, 2018, in San Francisco, the premier event for the Apache Spark community. Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data, will deliver a...
View ArticleIn case you missed it: 10 of your questions from our GDPR webinars
During the last few months, I’ve spoken with a lot of Azure customers, both in person and online, about how to prepare for the May 25, 2018 deadline for compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection...
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Extract management insights from SQL Data Warehouse with SQL Operations Studio
SQL Operations Studio can be leveraged with Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) to create rich customizable dashboard widgets surfacing insights to your data warehouse. This unlocks key scenarios around...
View ArticleCustomer success stories with Azure Backup: Somerset County Council
This is a continuation of our customer success story blog series for Azure Backup. In the previous case study we covered Russell Reynolds, here we will discuss how United Kingdom’s Somerset County...
View ArticleShift Left with SonarCloud Pull Request Integration
One of our DevOps “habits” is to Shift Left and move quality upstream. Including additional validations earlier in the DevOps pipeline means identifying potential issues before they become a problem....
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Visual Studio and Unity 2018.1, even better together
The Visual Studio team is excited about the Unity 2018.1 release: It’s the start of a new release cycle packed with great new features like the Scriptable Render Pipeline and the C# Job System. You can...
View ArticleWindows Developer Awards: And the 2018 winners are…
The excitement at Microsoft Build 2018 kicked off on May 6 with the annual presentation of the Windows Developer Awards, which acknowledge the hard work that goes into making great applications. In a...
View ArticlePlease Help Make the Science of DevOps Even Better!
DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) is now calling for participation in the 2018 Accelerate State of DevOps Survey. Please click the link to join. We all benefit from having scientifically reviewed...
View ArticleDevOps with VSTS: Build 2018 Recap
The Visual Studio Team Services team just wrapped up the Build conference here in Seattle. If you weren’t able to make it, be sure to watch the recordings of our sessions online. Azure DevOps with VSTS...
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Custom R charts coming to Excel
This week at the BUILD conference, Microsoft announced that Power BI custom visuals will soon be available as charts with Excel. You'll be able to choose a range of data within an Excel workbook, and...
View ArticleTop stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.11
Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order: TOP STORIES VSTS Gems – Analytics Extension #1 –...
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Introducing the Microsoft Edge DevTools Protocol
Today’s web developers face more challenges than ever before. New frameworks spring up left and right. The number of devices capable of running the web multiply by the day. And we strive as creators to...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Planes, pains, and automobiles
It's conference season, so I've been travelling on a lot of planes recently. (And today, I'm heading to Budapest for eRum 2018.) So this resonates with me right now: There's another video in the same...
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Announcing the General Availability of Native Ads & Preview of Microsoft...
It has been about an year since the last Microsoft Build conference where we announced the Microsoft ad monetization platform – a server-side ad mediation platform from Microsoft that helps app...
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Using LazyCache for clean and simple .NET Core in-memory caching
I'm continuing to use .NET Core 2.1 to power my Podcast Site, and I've done a series of posts on some of the experiments I've been doing. I also upgraded to .NET Core 2.1 RC that came out this week....
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