June 2017

Bot to Human Handoff in Node.js

June 30, 2017 Jun 30, 2017 06/30/17

Lilian Kasem (she/her)

When considering bots, it’s often important for organizations to have the ability to “hand off” a customer from a bot to a human agent seamlessly. We implemented an unopinionated e-2-e solution called Handoff for bot authors to implement a variety of scenarios, using the Microsoft Bot Framework Node.js SDK.

IoT Sports Sensor Machine Learning Helps Amateurs Up Their Game

June 29, 2017 Jun 29, 2017 06/29/17

Patty Ryan

We use IoT sensors to collect positional and motion data from professional and amateur skiers to classify expertise and skill level through machine learning.

Youth Homelessness Survey App with Xamarin.Forms and HockeyApp

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17

Eric Rozell

We partnered with the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness to develop a Xamarin application, WeCount, for volunteers to use to collect survey data for the 2017 Point-In-Time Count.

Scaling UDP Workloads with Kubernetes

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17

Jason Poon

Situm, a company that offers high precision indoor navigation, looked to Kubernetes on Azure to provide high availability and scalability for their services. As of Kubernetes v1.6.5, Kubernetes on Azure supports both UDP and TCP workloads, and respects the Kubernetes Service spec's sessionAffinity.

Revisiting InterOp with Unity, UWP and DirectX

June 28, 2017 Jun 28, 2017 06/28/17

Ritchie Lozada

As Unity applications become more complex, the need arises to extend Unity to provide additional capabilities. In our work with Aveva, we used Unity's plugin architecture to utilize the workstation and server GPU, while still leveraging the Unity runtime for input and display.

Hacking React Native Unbundles into UWP

June 27, 2017 Jun 27, 2017 06/27/17

Eric Rozell

We recently worked on developing "unbundle" support for react-native-windows to reduce launch times and memory usage for React Native Windows apps.

Building Facebook.Yoga for UWP and WPF

June 23, 2017 Jun 23, 2017 06/23/17

Eric Rozell

We recently worked to bring greater parity to react-native-windows by building cross-platform layout library Facebook.Yoga for UWP and WPF as the React Native framework for iOS and Android switched to use Yoga.