Topic: Big Data

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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…

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Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

5-minute read + demos Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements,…

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Open Source Weekly: VSCode Python updates, Helm Summit learnings, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

4-minute read + demos The February release of Visual Studio Code, our free and open source code editor,…

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Open Source Weekly: Updated Quantum SDK, deep learning for autonomous driving, and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

4-minute read + demos This week Microsoft released updates to our Quantum Development Kit, including support for macOS…

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Open Source Weekly: New Go SDK and Azure Go Dev Center 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

2-minute read + demos Lots of good news for “gophers” this week, with a new Go SDK for…

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Open Source Weekly: new Ansible on Azure improvements and more 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

For fans of Ansible’s automation capabilities, the Azure team announced significant improvements to the Ansible on Azure experience,…

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Open Source Weekly #6 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

This week’s Microsoft Connect(); event has been a demo-packed few days, highlighting Microsoft’s continuing commitment to delivering open…

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Open Source Weekly #5 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

The October release of Visual Studio Code, our free and open source code editor, includes support for multi-root…