CSE Developer Blog

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 ...

Prediction of diabetes hypoglycemic events

Beat Schwegler July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

Our customer develops connected blood glucose meters to provide innovative diabetes solutions to its patients. Using this meter, they’re able to store and archive patients’ data for further analysis. Furthermore, their connected device allows them to provide real-time analysis of the measured glucose values and make predictions about an ...

Building a ReactJS Spreadsheet Component

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

During the Microsoft Ventures hackathon in May 2015 it became obvious that one of the startups (CreativeWorx) required a standalone Excel-like spreadsheet component for the web. This post describes the resulting React component, how it was built, and how it can be used today. CreativeWorx is the company behind the CreativeWorx time tracker...

Office Mail App for Rallyteam

Shawn Cicoria July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

The Microsoft Office Platform is focused on enhancing the collaboration experience. This case study introduces you to Mail apps for Outlook and the ease of building, integrating, and enhancing the collaboration experience for users. The example shown here gets you up and running quickly with all the parts necessary to build a Mail app for ...

Turning Images into Entities Using Project Oxford

Michael Lanzetta July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

One of the startups in the MSVentures Redmond Accelerator (Lionheart) is interested in supplementing prescription data from other sources by pulling in structured data from pictures of existing prescriptions. For instance, a caregiver taking on a new patient could take a picture of an existing pill bottle and the Lionheart software would be ...

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 ...

Leveraging HDInsight from On-Premises Hadoop

Beat Schwegler July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

In big data solutions, compute is expected to takes place where the data resides, mainly due to the cost of moving very large scale data across clusters. However there exist scenarios where more compute capacity is needed than the on-premises cluster provides. To avoid moving large chunk of data around, the beneficial scenario consists of a ...

Parallelized Bulk Copy of Data from AWS to Azure

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

For various reasons, many customers want the ability to easily and efficiently move data from Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) to Microsoft Azure storage. In this Case Study, you’ll see how to take the simple notion of cloud file-copy and make it fast and efficient using parallel techniques. There are several solutions ...

Bootstrap Enterprise Single Page Applications with Continuous Azure Integration

Erik Schlegel July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15

When developers embark on a new web application project, they often seek technical guidance for where to start, which technologies to use, how to work through platform integration issues, etc. New technologies are emerging at a record pace, so developers spend a lot of time and energy deciding which frameworks are the most trusted and well-...

Deis: Running a Heroku-Style Platform on Azure

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

Deis is a lightweight application platform that deploys and scales Twelve-Factor apps as Docker containers across a cluster of CoreOS machines. Practically speaking, it enables users to self-host a platform implementing the Heroku workflow without being dependent on Heroku. Prior to the coding engagement, installing the Deis platform on ...