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Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure

Olga LiakhovichMay 7, 2019May 7, 201905/7/19

Background In the last eight years, poaching in Africa has been happening at an alarming rate. Currently, the continent loses three rhinos a day. As part of our team’s mission to find new ways that technology can positively impact our world, we’ve been collaborating with the Combating Wildlife Crime team from Peace Parks Foundation (PPF...

Developing and Deploying a Churn Prediction Model with Azure Machine Learning Services

Patty RyanJanuary 10, 2019Jan 10, 201901/10/19

Business Problem For a subscription service business, there are two ways to drive growth: grow the number of new customers, or increase the lifetime value from the customers that you already have by retaining more of them. Improving customer retention requires the ability to predict which subscribers are likely to cancel (referred to as churn...

How to Build A K8S Http API For Helm, and Serve Micro-services Using A Single IP

Itye RichterOctober 25, 2018Oct 25, 201810/25/18

Image credit: Pexels.com Background Axonize is a global provider of an IoT orchestration platform which automates the process of IoT deployments, cutting the process down from months to days. Their innovative platform consists of Data Gateways, which can accept even non-standard IoT sensor input, reformat the payload, and then deliver ...

Infrastructure as Code – On demand GPU clusters with Terraform & Jenkins

Tomer RosenthalAugust 9, 2018Aug 9, 201808/9/18

Background Developing robust algorithms for self-driving cars requires sourcing event data from over 10 billion hours of recorded driving time. But even with 10 billion-plus hours, it can be challenging to capture rare yet critical edge cases like weather events or collisions at scale. Luckily, these rare events can often be simulated ...

Deploying a Batch AI Cluster for Distributed Deep Learning Model Training

Stephanie MarkerJuly 9, 2018Jul 9, 201807/9/18

Distributed Deep Learning Model Training on Batch AI For Land O'Lakes Sustainability Project With population growth spiking around the world, and scientists warning of the risk of climate change on the environment around us, across industries corporations are turning to innovation to help them make practices greener and more sustainable. ...

Building a Private Ethereum Consortium

Jason PoonJune 1, 2018Jun 1, 201806/1/18

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 ...

Packaging an Electron app for managed distribution across devices

Syed Hassaan AhmedApril 17, 2018Apr 17, 201804/17/18

Introduction A customer we were recently collaborating with came to us with an interesting problem regarding their cross platform codebase and managed distribution. We learned that they were planning to build an Electron-based application and needed help from Microsoft to understand how to build, deploy and manage the application on Windows...

Using Helm to Deploy Blockchain to Kubernetes

Jason PoonFebruary 9, 2018Feb 9, 201802/9/18

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...

Orchestrating TURN Servers for Cloud Deployment

Anastasia ZolochevskaJanuary 29, 2018Jan 29, 201801/29/18

Background We recently collaborated with Aveva, an industrial design and management software company. The goal for Aveva was to improve its remote rendering service and extend this technology to support an ever-growing list of platforms and devices including HoloLens. As a result of our collaboration, we built 3DToolkit, a toolkit for ...

Azure Event Hub Ingestion at Scale with Python and Kubernetes

Tomer RosenthalJanuary 24, 2018Jan 24, 201801/24/18

Background The increasing availability of networked vehicles is creating new transformative opportunities for the automotive industry. With the right tools to safeguard privacy and security of users, the massive amount of data generated by connected cars can be leveraged to create groundbreaking new services such as remote onboard ...

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