Visual Studio Code extension for Arduino is now open source
This week, Microsoft announced that the Arduino extension for Visual Studio Code is now open source. The extension is consistent and compatible with the official Arduino IDE.
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Highlights from Microsoft Open Days 2017 across Asia Pacific
Microsoft’s Open Source team organized a series of events across Asia Pacific last month (May 2017), which were aimed at sharing their cloud vision and support for running open source solutions on Azure. These open source roadshows attracted 1,500 registrations and over 800 attendees.
Join us for Microsoft Azure OpenDev
Azure OpenDev is the first-ever virtual event from Microsoft that showcases open source technologies in the cloud. Hosted by John Gossman, Lead Architect, Microsoft Azure, the event features industry thought leaders, including Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical and speakers from Docker, Pivotal, Red Hat, and Chef, as well as Microsoft teams dedicated to open source.
Cardinal Solutions is the 2017 Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year
We’re proud to name Cardinal Solutions Group the winner of the third annual Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year award. Cardinal Solutions was recognized for providing excellent open source-based solutions on Microsoft Azure, helping customers drive their digital transformations.
Packing a Kubernetes Microservices App with Helm on Azure Container Service
In this blog post, I’ll show how we packed our Kubernetes microservices app with Helm, running on Azure Container Service, and made them easy to reproduce in various environments. Shipping microservices as a single piece of block At RisingStack we use Kubernetes with tens of microservices to provide our Node.
Connect with Microsoft at OSCON 2017
Some of the 3,000 open source contributors from across Microsoft are at OSCON this week, to focus on how the open source ecosystem is playing a major role in technology innovation, from artificial intelligence and IoT to microservices and containers.
Microsoft R Server 9.1 now available
During yesterday’s Data Amp event, Microsoft announced the new Microsoft R Server 9.1, which is available now. In addition to several advanced machine learning algorithms from Microsoft, R Server 9.1 introduces pre-trained neural network models for sentiment analysis and mage featurization and supports SparklyR, SparkETL, and SparkSQL.
Azure HDInsight 3.6, now generally available
This week at the DataWorks Summit, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6, backed by Microsoft’s enterprise-grade SLA. HDInsight 3.6 brings updates to various open source components in the Apache Hadoop and Spark ecosystem to the cloud, allowing customers to deploy them easily and run them reliably on an enterprise-grade platform. “HDInsight 3.
Now available: open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit
This week Microsoft released the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta. The toolkit, previously known as CNTK, is a free, easy-to-use, open source, commercial-grade toolkit that trains deep learning algorithms to learn like the human brain.
Highlights from FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017
In an unprecedented partnership, Microsoft and FOSSASIA (the largest open source technology advocate in Asia) worked together to showcase Microsoft’s commitment towards open source software (OSS) communities through the FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017 event, as well as the satellite community events and influencer engagements.
Develop big data applications with MapR on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft and MapR have partnered to bring you the first of a series of joint webinars! This free webinar, Develop big data applications with MapR on Microsoft Azure, will be presented by Asit Parija (Solution Architect, MapR Technologies) and Ben Sadeghi (Big Data & Advanced Analytics Specialist, Microsoft SE Asia & Korea).
Making a winning bet on open source project selection
Selecting an open source project isn’t just about the project’s ability to meet your technical and functional requirements, there’s also very important non-functional aspects that you should consider. This is a strategic long term bet for your business, enabling competitive advantage.
How to optimize your data architecture with Hadoop on Azure
Microsoft and Hortonworks are collaborating to bring you a series of live webinars on Hadoop! These are the first two webinars: Accelerating Big Data Collection for Azure Cloud (February 2017) and A Winning Cloud Strategy For Your Hadoop Environment (March 2017).