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Lena Hall
Alena is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on big data and large-scale distributed systems. Previously, she's worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system architecture, high load and performance, big data analysis, functional programming, and machine learning. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s Board of Trustees and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology.
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Announcing Applied Cloud Stories 

  • By Lena Hall, Alena is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on big data and large-scale distributed systems. Previously, she's worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system architecture, high load and performance, big data analysis, functional programming, and machine learning. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s Board of Trustees and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology.

We are delighted to announce the Applied Cloud Stories initiative by Microsoft! What is Applied Cloud Stories? Do…

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How to process streams of data with Apache Kafka and Spark 

  • By Lena Hall, Alena is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on big data and large-scale distributed systems. Previously, she's worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system architecture, high load and performance, big data analysis, functional programming, and machine learning. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s Board of Trustees and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology.

Data is produced every second, it comes from millions of sources and is constantly growing. Have you ever…