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Aug 30, 2015
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Deploying Flynn Clusters on Azure

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. In this post, we're checking out the brand-new Flynn Azure Installer.

DevOps
Aug 30, 2015
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Containerized CI with Concourse on Azure

Creating a CI pipeline to support the Azure CPI and BOSH deployments on Azure using Concourse CI to automate the build with a series of well-defined, containerized, and isolated steps.

DevOps
Aug 1, 2015
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A Peer Review Bot for GitHub

We built a peer review bot for GitHub, automating review workflows for pull requests - so that humans can spend their time with more fun things.

Bots
Jul 21, 2015
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Wicked Cool Excel Function with Blockspring

A small Y Combinator startup is trying to completely remove all constraints for functions in spreadsheets: It enables users to create and share custom functions for Google Sheets and Office in Node.js, Python, R, JavaScript, PHP and Ruby, running complex calculations in the cloud and pushing the results to your spreadsheet.

Frameworks
Jul 21, 2015
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Building Ember Apps on Azure Websites

How to deploy Ember CLI apps automatically to Azure Web Apps, and how we built a small automation tool.

DevOpsAzure App Services
Jul 21, 2015
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Microservice Orchestration with Fleet on Azure

Micro-service architecture, the concept of providing a large scale service as a collection of small, highly available services is becoming increasingly popular in today's modern cloud service deployments. However, with the rise of Docker and other containerization and orchestration technologies, it can be difficult to get started.

DevOps
Jul 21, 2015
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Building a ReactJS Spreadsheet Component

During the Microsoft Ventures hackathon in May 2015 it became obvious that one of the startups 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.

Big Data
Jul 21, 2015
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Communicating with Man’s Best Friend, Part I – Dog Tracking

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.

Machine Learning
Jul 21, 2015
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Parallelized Bulk Copy of Data from AWS to Azure

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.

Big Data