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Maintainers Spotlight: How Kent C. Dodds pays it forward through open source
We hear about open source projects every day, but we rarely hear from the people who maintain them. Maintaining an open source project is a full-time, often thankless, job. The Maintainers Spotlight blog series is an opportunity to highlight the essential role maintainers play in moving projects and communities forward.
4 open source lessons for 2021
2020 fundamentally changed how many companies and teams work—seemingly overnight, remote-first cultures became the new norm and people had to change how they communicate and collaborate.
Accelerate and simplify Scikit-learn model inference with ONNX Runtime
Scikit-learn is one of the most useful libraries for general machine learning in Python. To minimize the cost of deployment and avoid discrepancies, deploying scikit-learn models to production usually leverages Docker containers and pickle, the object serialization module of the Python standard library.
Introducing the Cluster API Provider for Azure (CAPZ) for Kubernetes cluster management
Managing Kubernetes clusters is hard. Managing Kubernetes clusters at scale across a variety of infrastructures is—well—even harder. The Kubernetes community project Cluster API (CAPI) enables users to manage fleets of clusters across multiple infrastructure providers.
ONNX Runtime scenario highlight: Vespa.ai integration
Since its open source debut two years ago, ONNX Runtime has seen strong growth with performance improvements, expanded platform and device compatibility, hardware accelerator support, an extension to training acceleration, and more.
Adding RoBERTa NLP to the ONNX model zoo for natural language predictions
In summer 2019, I worked as a high school intern for the ONNX AI team at Microsoft and loved working on various projects with the team, including the BERT text classification model. However, due to Covid-19, the Microsoft Internship Program for high school students was canceled in the summer of 2020.
.NET for Apache Spark hits v1.0
About two years ago, we heard an increasing demand from the .NET community for an easier way to build big data applications with .NET, outside of needing to learn Scala or Python. Thus, in a collaboration between Azure Data and .NET teams, we started the .NET for Apache® Spark™ open source project.
Announcing Akri, an open source project for building a connected edge with Kubernetes
Overview One of the hallmarks of “the edge” in computing is the array of sensors, controllers, and microcontroller unit (MCU) class devices that produce data and perform actions. For Kubernetes to be a versatile edge computing solution, a cluster needs to easily find these leaf devices.
Introducing ONNX Runtime mobile – a reduced size, high performance package for edge devices
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 ONNX Runtime release v1.5 as part of our AI at Scale initiative.
Participate in the Java EE cloud migration patterns survey
The Java on Microsoft Azure team has been strengthening its commitment and outreach to Java EE users. This effort includes additional technical guidance, tools, scripts, workshops, and more to better support migrations to Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and managed service (PaaS) offerings.
Accelerate traditional machine learning models on GPU with ONNX Runtime
With the growing trend towards deep learning techniques in AI, there are many investments in accelerating neural network models using GPUs and other specialized hardware. However, many models used in production are still based on traditional machine learning libraries or sometimes a combination of traditional machine learning (ML) and DNNs.
Calico for Windows goes open source
Since Windows worker node support reached general availability in Kubernetes, Microsoft and Tigera have listened closely to feedback from the community. A big contention point of Windows container users in the Kubernetes community is: “One of the most important open source network policy tools in the market is not available for Windows.