Containers

Azure Service Operators – A Kubernetes native way of Deploying Azure Resources

Janani Vasudevan November 11, 2021 Nov 11, 2021 11/11/21

The promise of being able to standardize on Kubernetes as a platform is attractive as it offers unique solutions to many of the challenges companies face. This post talks about the Azure Service Operator open source project that helps customers deploy Azure Resources using Kubernetes definitions

Enabling COVID-19 Exposure Notifications Across the United States on Azure

Andre Briggs September 7, 2021 Sep 7, 2021 09/7/21

During pandemics, the ability to let people know if they have been exposed to a contagious disease is essential for public health practitioners. This is known as contact tracing and the COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. In this post, I describe the journey of our Microsoft team to deploy an exposure notification server on Azure.

Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure

Olga Liakhovich May 7, 2019 May 7, 2019 05/7/19

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 Peace Parks Foundation (PPF), in partnership with

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

Patty Ryan January 10, 2019 Jan 10, 2019 01/10/19

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 Richter October 25, 2018 Oct 25, 2018 10/25/18

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 Rosenthal August 9, 2018 Aug 9, 2018 08/9/18

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 Marker July 9, 2018 Jul 9, 2018 07/9/18

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 Poon June 1, 2018 Jun 1, 2018 06/1/18

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

Hassaan April 17, 2018 Apr 17, 2018 04/17/18

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 Poon February 9, 2018 Feb 9, 2018 02/9/18

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...

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