Microsoft open sources SandDance, a visual data exploration tool 

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SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, has been re-released as an open source project on GitHub. This new version of SandDance has been re-written from the ground up as an embeddable component that works with modern JavaScript toolchains. The release is comprised of several components that work in native JavaScript or React Read more

Discover, develop, and deploy smart contracts faster with Blockchain Dev Kit updates 

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In May, we announced the release of the Azure Blockchain Development Kit for Ethereum. We worked together with open source leaders, like Truffle, to bring the best of Azure and open source technologies together to deliver a world class development experience for Ethereum smart contract development and deployment. This was released as a free Visual Read more

Unboxing new Microsoft Azure solutions at SpringOne Platform 2019 

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Spring and Java are first-class citizens on Microsoft Azure and our engineering teams have been working really hard for the past few years to make the developer experience for building and running Spring applications on Azure delightful and productive. To present to you this team’s great work, Microsoft is again coming to SpringOne Platform this Read more

Bringing container magic to cloud-native applications 

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Last year at Microsoft Connect and DockerCon we announced the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification in partnership with Docker, HashiCorp, and Bitnami. Since then the CNAB community has grown to include Pivotal, Intel, Datadog, and others, and we are all extremely pleased to announce that the CNAB core 1.0 specification has reached Final Draft Read more

exFAT in the Linux kernel? Yes! 

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Microsoft ♥ Linux – we say that a lot, and we mean it! Today we’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel. exFAT is the Microsoft-developed file system that’s used in Windows and in many types of storage devices like SD Cards and USB flash Read more

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Now available: ONNX Runtime 0.5 with support for edge hardware acceleration 

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ONNX Runtime 0.5, the latest update to the open source high performance inference engine for ONNX models, is now available. This release improves the customer experience and supports inferencing optimizations across hardware platforms. Since the last release in May, Microsoft teams have deployed an additional 45+ models that leverage ONNX Runtime for inferencing. These models Read more

Microsoft joins partners and the Linux Foundation to create Confidential Computing Consortium 

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Microsoft has invested in confidential computing for many years, so I’m excited to announce that Microsoft will join industry partners to create the Confidential Computing Consortium, a new organization that will be hosted at The Linux Foundation. The Confidential Computing Consortium will be dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing. Confidential computing Read more

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Join us for the first Windows Containers in Kubernetes “Unconference” 

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Since Windows containers became a stable feature in Kubernetes earlier this year, we’ve seen exciting growth in use of Windows container technology. The fact that most cloud providers now have managed services supporting Windows containers through the Kubernetes API is a reflection of the demand.  During conversations among the community at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona a few months ago, it became apparent that there needs to be more effort Read more

AzureR now available: Create, manage, and monitor Azure services with R 

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AzureR, a family of packages that provides tools to manage Azure resources from the open source R language, is now available. If you code in Python, C#, Java or JavaScript, you already have a rich selection of SDKs to choose from to interact with Azure. AzureR extends SDK support to the R language, by providing Read more

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Run, operate, and scale modern applications with Redis Enterprise on Microsoft Azure 

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Today, we rely on our everyday services to be delivered digitally and expect the experience to be instant. In order for customer-facing applications to respond to users in 100ms, you need a high-performance database capable of handling a variety of application scenarios at the lowest complexity and cost, with uncompromising performance. Redis is the world’s Read more

Microsoft joins the Hyperledger community 

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Today we are announcing that we’ve joined Hyperledger, a Linux Foundation community that focuses on open source implementations of the emerging specifications and standards for blockchain and distributed ledgers. Over the past few years, blockchain has shown significant promise across many industries to manage complex workflows and logistics. Enterprises and startups have gone beyond the Read more

Learning on Twitch 

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Watch someone live code online…why would I do that? Hopefully I can answer this question for you in today’s post. This is the second post in my blog series that describes the value developers can get from social media, including what I’ve learned about specific social media platforms. Today we’ll focus on Twitch, specifically how Read more

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