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Announcing preview of Microsoft build of OpenJDK for Java 11
Today we announcing the first preview of the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, a new long-term support (LTS) distribution of OpenJDK that is open source and available for free for anyone to deploy anywhere....Read more
Optimizing BERT model for Intel CPU Cores using ONNX runtime default execution provider
This blog was co-authored with Manash Goswami, Principal Program Manager, Machine Learning Platform. The performance improvements provided by ONNX Runtime powered by Intel® Deep Learning Boost: Vector Neural Network Instructions (Intel® DL Boost: VNNI) greatly improves performance of machine learning model execution for developers. In the past, machine learning models mostly relied on 32-bit floating...Read more
Microsoft Open Source success story—Babylon
An ongoing series of stories about Microsoft people and projects making their world better through open source. If you haven’t heard of Babylon.js, there is no doubt that it’s already made your day more cheerful, powering Microsoft Teams’ Reactions‘ (those cute floating emojis), or your presentation faster and smoother as the engine that powers rendering...Read more
Create privacy-preserving synthetic data for machine learning with SmartNoise
Watch our webinar on Open Data Science Conference Read the white paper on SmartNoise Differential Privacy machine learning case studies The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the tremendous importance of sufficient and relevant data for research, causal analysis, government action, and medical progress. However, for understandable data protection considerations, individuals and decision-makers are often very reluctant to share personal or sensitive data....Read more
Enabling responsible AI development with new open source capabilities
At last year’s Microsoft Build conference in May 2020, Microsoft introduced three responsible AI (RAI) toolkits available in both open source as well as integrated within Azure Machine Learning: InterpretML, Fairlearn, and SmartNoise. These tools enable machine learning data scientists to understand model predictions, assess fairness, and protect sensitive data. Building on this family of...Read more
The community effort that delivered Dapr v1.0
Today we’ve announced the release of Dapr v1.0. The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) is now available as a production ready solution that helps developers build resilient, portable event-driven distributed applications on the cloud and edge. It has been an incredible journey bringing Dapr from its initial release in October 2019 to production readiness and it...Read more
Microsoft joins Rust Foundation
Today we’re excited to share that Microsoft is joining industry partners as founding members of the Rust Foundation, a new independent organization established to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem and support Rust’s maintainers. We look forward to collaborating with the Rust community to continue improving the Rust language, providing tooling and library support,...Read more
Maintainers Spotlight: How Kent C. Dodds pays it forward through open source
We hear about open source projects every day, but we rarely hear from the people who maintain them. Maintaining an open source project is a full-time, often thankless, job. The Maintainers Spotlight blog series is an opportunity to highlight the essential role maintainers play in moving projects and communities forward. In true open source fashion,...Read more
Deploying SUSE SAP HA Automation in Microsoft Azure
Why automation Maintaining a competitive advantage often depends on how quickly you can deliver new services. SAP applications are designed to help companies analyze data to anticipate new requirements and rapidly deliver new products and services. This gives you the ability to keep existing customers happy while attracting new business. In line with SUSE’s vision...Read more
4 open source lessons for 2021
2020 fundamentally changed how many companies and teams work—seemingly overnight, remote-first cultures became the new norm and people had to change how they communicate and collaborate. However, for those of us who have been deeply engaged in open source, remote work has been our norm for many years because open source communities are large, globally...Read more
How to monitor your Azure infrastructure with Filebeat and Elastic Observability
Overview The ability to access the internal state of your application ecosystem is critical to optimizing your applications and the experience of your users. Elastic Cloud on Microsoft Azure gives you access to Elastic observability allowing you to monitor your infrastructure and see how every signal interrelates by utilizing a wide variety of resources that...Read more