Microsoft Open Source Blog Introducing Bash for Beginners
On Azure, more than 50 percent of virtual machine (VM) cores run on Linux. There is no better time to learn Bash. Read more
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Performant on-device inferencing with ONNX Runtime
The team at Pieces shares the problems and solutions evaluated for their on-device model serving stack and how ONNX Runtime enables their success. Read more
Improve BERT inference speed by combining the power of Optimum, OpenVINO™, ONNX Runtime, and Azure
Make large models smaller and faster with OpenVino Execution Provider, NNCF and ONNX Runtime leveraging Azure Machine Learning. Read more
Towards debuggability and secure deployments of eBPF programs on Windows
eBPF for Windows native code generation is a new mode of execution that maintains the integrity of the kernel and provides the safety promises of eBPF. Read more
Hugging Face Transformers now enabled in Apache OpenNLP by ONNX Runtime
We’re excited to share the recent integration of ONNX Runtime in Apache OpenNLP! Apache OpenNLP is a Java machine learning library for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Read more
Microsoft’s OSPO year in review—what we’ve learned
“Tech companies born with an open source mentality get it. It’s our ability to work together that makes our dreams believable and, ultimately, achievable. We must learn to build on the ideas of others”—Satya Nadella Whenever I teach open source at Microsoft, I open with this quote from Satya. Whether new to Microsoft, or learning Read more
Add AI to mobile applications with Xamarin and ONNX Runtime
ONNX Runtime now supports building mobile applications in C# with Xamarin. Support for Android and iOS is included in the ONNX Runtime release 1.10 NuGet package. This enables C# developers to build AI applications for Android and iOS to execute ONNX models on mobile devices with ONNX Runtime. ONNX Runtime is the open source project Read more
Progress on making eBPF work on Windows
eBPF is a well-known, but revolutionary, technology for providing programmability, extensibility, and agility. eBPF has been applied to use cases such as denial-of-service protection and observability. In May 2021, we announced the effort to make eBPF work on Windows, and were encouraged by the huge amount of interest. Six months have passed since then, and Read more
ONNX Runtime release 1.8.1 previews support for accelerated training on AMD GPUs with the AMD ROCm™ Open Software Platform
This post was co-authored by Jeff Daily, a Principal Member of Technical Staff, Deep Learning Software for AMD. ONNX Runtime is an open-source project that is designed to accelerate machine learning across a wide range of frameworks, operating systems, and hardware platforms. Today, we are excited to announce a preview version of ONNX Runtime in Read more
Enabling Local Tunnel Debugging with the Kubernetes extension for VS Code
In partnership with developers from Red Hat, we are announcing the introduction of Local Tunnel Debugging for Kubernetes service in the Kubernetes extension for Visual Studio Code, which enables you to use your native development tools against any cluster, live. Read more
Tutorial: Automate infrastructure and deployment on Azure using Jenkins and Ansible
Both Ansible and Jenkins are powerful open source automation tools. Using Ansible, you can provision virtual machines, containers, network and complete cloud infrastructures on Azure. In addition, Ansible allows you to automate the deployment and configuration of resources in your environment. Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project, including Read more
Tutorial: Using Azure REST API in Ansible to automate Azure resources
Ansible 2.6 was released with more capabilities to provision and manage Azure resources. It includes four new modules for Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Resource, and many enhancements to existing Ansible modules for Azure (e.g., Virtual Machine, Networking interface). Here I’ll introduce two new modules azure_rm_resource and azure_rm_resource_facts which allow you to directly call the Read more