Azure SDK Blog

Forecasting Service scale out with Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code

Kieran Brantner-MageeMay 5, 2020May 5, 202005/5/20

Visual Studio Code has an extension for running Jupyter Notebooks, which is a great tool for those of us interested in data analytics as it simplifies our workflows. In this article, I will show how to consume Azure data in a Jupyter Notebook using the Azure SDK. The problem I will be demonstrating builds a predictive model to anticipate ...

How to use CancellationTokens to cancel tasks in the Azure SDK for .NET

Heath StewartApril 28, 2020Apr 28, 202004/28/20

The ability to cancel long-running tasks is important to help keep applications responsive. Whether the network connection is slow or disconnects, or the user just wants to cancel a long task, using a [`CancellationToken`][CancellationToken] in .NET makes it easy to cancel those long tasks.

How to use abort signals to cancel operations in the Azure SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript

Brian TerlsonApril 21, 2020Apr 21, 202004/21/20

Cancelling in-progress network operations is critical for applications to maintain responsiveness and avoid doing work that isn't needed anymore. There are many situations where you want to cancel on-going work. This article shows you how it is done.

Azure SDK Release (April 2020) – Using Azure Key Vault to Store Application Secrets

Adrian HallApril 14, 2020Apr 14, 202004/14/20

This month, we have updated the App Configuration, Event Hubs, Key Vault, and Storage libraries. We've also released new previews for Cognitive Search, Event Hubs, Service Bus, and Text Analytics.

Process data in real-time with Java and Azure Event Hubs

Connie YauApril 7, 2020Apr 7, 202004/7/20

In my position with the Azure SDK team, I'm fortunate to talk to a lot of customers about their needs. Most applications can be categorized into big buckets where we can see the same design patterns repeated. One of those categories is data processing.

Best practices for using Azure SDK with ASP.NET Core

Pavel KrymetsMarch 31, 2020Mar 31, 202003/31/20

If you are developing an ASP.NET Core application, you know that there is a common way of structuring your application. The tooling within Visual Studio makes this very easy to accomplish. Similarly, when integrating the AZURE SDK, there are good and bad ways to structure your code. This article covers the best practices.

Enabling distributed tracing with the Azure SDK for Python

Adrian HallMarch 24, 2020Mar 24, 202003/24/20

Todays topic is diagnostics with Python applications. I have a fairly complex application, and something is going wrong. Azure provides a capability within Azure Monitor called transaction monitoring that tracks a transaction (such as an API call) from your application all the way through to the service that fulfills the request. This is power

Azure SDK Release (March 2020) – Introducing Azure Cognitive Search

Adrian HallMarch 17, 2020Mar 17, 202003/17/20

This months release contains updates to App Configuration, Event Hubs, Key Vault, and Storage, with new previews for Azure Identity, Cognitive Search, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, and Text Analytics.

Building the Azure SDK – Repository Structure

Mitch DennyMarch 10, 2020Mar 10, 202003/10/20

The Azure SDK team generates many client libraries across multiple languages, so it should come as no surprise that we constantly think about the most efficient mechanism for storing, writing, and distributing those libraries. In an ongoing series, we're going to talk about some of the decisions we made and the implications of those decisions...

Pluggable HTTP Modules with the Azure SDK for Java

Alan ZimmerMarch 3, 2020Mar 3, 202003/3/20

When we re-imagined the Azure SDK, we came up with some key principles that we would use when writing the SDK: There are more details behind these simple principles, but these are our guides when designing the client libraries. When we designed the initial HTTP pipeline for the Azure SDK for Java, we made specific choices that are ...