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Rotary Wheel Control with HeavenFresh

Jason Poon September 8, 2015 Sep 8, 2015 09/8/15

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 ...

Containerized CI with Concourse on Azure

Anthony Turner August 30, 2015 Aug 30, 2015 08/30/15

What’s Concourse? Concourse CI is a unique CI application where the concept of Pipelines is first class throughout the entire process. Concourse allows you to create more complex build systems through a series of input and output resources with each step defined by a task manifest and running in its own container. The real advantages to ...

Deploying Flynn Clusters on Azure

Anthony Turner August 30, 2015 Aug 30, 2015 08/30/15

Flynn is a next-generation PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution that can deploy, run, and scale both twelve-factor apps as well as stateful services. The company behind Flynn (which is also named Flynn) recently joined Y Combinator and is moving fast with bold goals: “Flynn deploys apps, scales apps, and manages databases with best ...

Real-time Maps with Event Hubs and SignalR Using Leaflet

Michael Lanzetta August 26, 2015 Aug 26, 2015 08/26/15

Problem Here on the Partner Catalyst team at Microsoft, we work with partners from all over the world on everything from long-term projects to week-long hackfests. Recently, we spent a week in Hamburg, Germany, working with Ströer to help them tackle some thorny data visualization and data-handling problems. They had a large corpus of ...

High Performance MongoDB Clusters with Azure Resource Manager

David Makogon August 24, 2015 Aug 24, 2015 08/24/15

Microsoft works every day with startups around the world to help them be successful with their new businesses or scale them to new heights. We recently had that pleasure of working with Openhour at our Microsoft Startup Accelerator in Seattle. Openhour, who has built their business on Azure, offers a service to enable creative professionals to...

A Peer Review Bot for GitHub

Anthony Turner August 1, 2015 Aug 1, 2015 08/1/15

We, in Microsoft’s Open Source team, occasionally write case studies to explain our work with a bit more technical depth for both external engineers as well as our fellow internal Microsoft engineers. Naturally, we don’t want to embarrass ourselves. So before any case study is released, we have to get some peer reviews. Our blog is ...

Building Ember Apps on Azure Websites

Anthony Turner July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Ember.js is one of the most popular frameworks for the development of ambitious web applications – developed initially as Sproutcore by Apple, it is used today in the Windows and Xbox One store, the Apple Music desktop app, at Netflix, Twitter/Vine, LinkedIn, and many other companies working at the bleeding edge of web app development. An ...

Recursive Descent Formula Parsing in C# in .NET

Anthony Turner July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Intrinsic to any script-based application is the notion of parsing. In CloudSheet, described in detail in the forthcoming TED Case Study entitled “Massively Scalable Graph-Based Computation in Azure,” a formula parser tokenizes arbitrarily complex Excel-like formulas making subsequent evaluation faster and more efficient. This paper will ...

Processing Time Series Data with HDInsight Storm

Tim Park July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

At Microsoft, we are working with a number of car manufacturers on processing telemetry streams. One of the key business scenarios for the incoming real-time car telemetry is to offer real-time driver risk scoring for end user driving guidance applications, fleet administration, and usage-based insurance scenarios. This risk scoring is ...

Communicating with Man’s Best Friend, Part I – Dog Tracking

Anthony Turner July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

With the arrival of commodity depth-capable cameras, specifically, the Microsoft Kinect, as well as high-performance machine learning algorithms, entirely new capabilities are made possible. Working with academic experts and others, we are attempting to track the movements, body language, and vocalizations of dogs. The overall goal of this ...