Tag: Azure
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Conversational AI updates that help you build sophisticated and personalized experiences
Posted on May 31, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
Now, more than ever, developers need to respond to the rapidly increasing demand from customers for support and accurate information - meeting them where they are – any time of the day and on an expanding range of platforms and devices. Azure AI has met unprecedented demand, underpinning over 1500 Covid-19 related bots via the Microsoft Health Bot service alone, in addition to the over 1.25 billion messages per month already handled by Azure Bot Service. By GaryPrettyMsft.
Tags big-data robotics iot azure machine-learning
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Convolutional neural network implementation for car classification
Posted on May 18, 2020, Level advanced Resource Length long
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are state-of-the-art Neural Network architectures that are primarily used for computer vision tasks. CNN can be applied to a number of different tasks, such as image recognition, object localization, and change detection. By Dr. Evan Eames and Henning Kropp.
Tags big-data data-science azure learning
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AWS Lambda vs. Azure Functions: 10 major differences
Posted on February 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Since 2014, the serverless model has taken off, and every major cloud provider has introduced its flavor of an FaaS service: Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and IBM Cloud Functions, to name a few. By Mikhail Shilkov.
Tags aws azure serverless cloud
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Handling 'Failure at scale' in Azure Functions triggered by IoT Hub
Posted on October 15, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
An article by Stas(Stanislav) Lebedenko about how to tackle exceptions and re-run failed messages. One of the Serverless solution benefits is a performance at scale. As a result, you can get 'Failure at scale' if something goes wrong. Thus it's crucial to introduce error handling for your Azure Functions project early.
Tags serverless apis web-development azure devops
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Step Zero: Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Posted on September 13, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Step to step guide how to create a Kubernetes cluster using the Azure command line tools. It describes the commands required to setup a Kubernetes cluster using the command line. By JupyterHub.
Tags devops azure programming software-architecture
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Leveraging the Dependency Injection support in Azure Functions
Posted on September 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Cecil Phillip, Rich Lander are authors of this video in which they walk you though dependency injection for Azure functions (serverless). The latest update to Azure Functions v2 now has support for registering services with DI.
Tags azure open-source cloud nodejs web-development serverless
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Enabling enterprise governance in Azure
Posted on August 28, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length long
At Microsoft Core Services and Engineering (CSEO), Microsoft used Azure governance to create a solution that enables enterprise-scale governance and compliance enforcement for our entire Azure environment. Article by Microsoft.
Tags software azure miscellaneous open-source cloud
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Microsoft IoT Signals research report on state of IoT adoption
Posted on August 18, 2019, Level beginner Resource Length short
Microsoft recently announced IoT Signals, a new research report on the IoT landscape globally. Microsoft surveyed over 3,000 IoT decision-makers in enterprise organizations in order to give a view of the IoT ecosystem, with adoption rates, related technology trends, challenges, and benefits of IoT.
Tags analytics big-data robotics iot azure
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Maximizing your security posture with Azure ATP
Posted on August 3, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Interesting article from Chris Hallum from Microsoft. Their customers spend a lot of time and money on security solutions and very few of them are taking full advantage of the solutions they've deployed. Even fewer of them are deploying or maintaining these solutions correctly. Based on this it's not surprising to see stats like "93% of all breaches could have been avoided if basic cyber hygiene had been in place" (Online Trust Alliance).
Tags cloud infosec devops azure software-architecture
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How Windows Defender Antivirus integrates hardware-based system integrity for informed, extensive endpoint protection
Posted on July 31, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team interesting article about inner workings of Windows Defender. Detecting and stopping attacks that tamper with kernel-mode agents at the hypervisor level is a critical component of the unified endpoint protection platform in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection.
Tags cloud infosec azure machine-learning software
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Indexing and searching NuGet.org with Azure Functions and Search
Posted on July 30, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
An article by Maarten Balliauw about parsing publicly available JSON data with Azure Functions (serverless). NuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages.
Tags javascript web-development serverless nodejs azure
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Create fluid conversations with QnA Maker multi-turn feature
Posted on July 7, 2019, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Matt Wade authored this beginner guide to QnA Maker multi-trun conversations. In the past there was a glaring difference between a QnA Maker knowledge base (KB) and a real human: the ability to clarify, ask for more information or do anything more than a one-off question-response type of conversation. With multi-turn, the experience with your QnA KB is much more fluid and significantly more natural.
Tags software bots robotics azure