Jason Poon

Building a Private Ethereum Consortium

June 1st, 2018

Background The travel industry estimates 3-5% of bookings are disputed due to discrepancies in the data held by each party and can take months to resolve. Over the past two years, Microsoft and Webjet have collaborated to build a blockchain-based solution, Rezchain, that helps travel companies resolve data and avoid invoice reconciliation ...

Using Helm to Deploy Blockchain to Kubernetes

February 9th, 2018

Background Webjet is an online travel agency responsible for managing thousands of travel bookings daily in Australia and New Zealand. Over the last year, Microsoft and Webjet have collaborated to help Webjet solve inefficiencies in the processing and management of hotel bookings by leveraging blockchain technology. You can learn more about...

Scaling UDP Workloads with Kubernetes

June 28th, 2017

Background We recently worked with Situm, a company that offers high precision indoor navigation. Situm's platform is able to ascertain the position of a user inside a building by relying on a smartphone’s sensors: WiFi, Bluetooth, magnetometer, gyroscope, and the accelerometer. Their platform is now being used in a variety of scenarios, ...

Reproducible Data Science – Analysis of Experimental Data with Pachyderm and Azure

April 12th, 2017

Inside a nondescript building in a Vancouver industrial park, General Fusion is creating something that could forever change how the world produces energy. Since its founding in 2002, the Canadian cleantech company has risen to the forefront of the race to harness fusion energy which has the potential to supply the world with almost limitless...

The Deploy to Azure Button

January 17th, 2017

The ‘Deploy to Azure’ button enables quick and easy deployment of your open source projects to Microsoft Azure. We’ll walk through how we added a ‘Deploy to Azure’ button to the slackin project, and show how you can do the same. What is slackin? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cse/wp-admin/revision.php?revision=11045 slackin is ...

Determining Speech Intent with Cognitive Services and LUIS

December 16th, 2015

From the early days of punch cards and command line, the ways in which we interact with computers have continued to evolve. The mouse made things a little easier by ushering in graphical user interfaces. Only recently have more natural human-computer interactions become prevalent through touch and speech. Digital personal assistants (e.g. ...

Talking AllJoyn with Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

September 15th, 2015

Windows 10 introduced support for AllJoyn giving any Windows 10 device – phone, desktop, tablet – the ability to connect and control multiple Internet of Things (IoT) devices like @HeavenFresh air purifiers and humidifiers. In this case study, we will delve into the process of how we added AllJoyn support to the HeavenFresh Universal ...

Rotary Wheel Control with HeavenFresh

September 8th, 2015

Windows 10 introduces the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) providing a common app platform enabling the ability to install the same app package onto every Windows 10 device: phone, desktop, Xbox, IoT, Surface Hub, etc. We worked with @HeavenFresh to create a UWP application and, in the process, a rotary wheel user control. This case study ...

Distributing Line of Business (LoB) Apps in Enterprises

July 21st, 2015

In this post, you’ll learn how one large enterprise determined the best deployment mechanism to be used for distributing their Windows line of business application. Xerox executes signed service contracts with customers ensuring copiers, printers, and other devices continue operating with minimal downtime. As such, Xerox must execute well...