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PolyBase – How SQL Server does Big data!

February 12, 2018 Feb 12, 2018 02/12/18
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Nayan Patel introduces SQL Server PolyBase and shares some insights from a recent engagement using the technology.I was recently involved in helping my customer complete a successful PoC around SQL Server 2016’s PolyBase feature.  They have invested a signification amount of budget and resources ...

Microsoft Professional Program for Data Science – Sharpen Your Data Science Skills

February 11, 2018 Feb 11, 2018 02/11/18
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Pete Fuenfhausen breaks down the concept of Data Sciences and provides a walk through of free training track to get oriented with the technologies Microsoft offers in this space. These days it’s pretty hard to be an application developer without running into concepts like big data, data science, ...

Partner Center API’s

February 10, 2018 Feb 10, 2018 02/10/18
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In this post, Senior App Dev Manager Deepak Malik, explains how Partner Center API’s provide extensive management functionalities and enable partner to extend their existing systems.The Partner Center REST API helps Cloud Solution Provider partners (CSP's) integrate their existing CRM or billing systems with the Microsoft systems to manage ...

Designing a Cosmos DB database

January 31, 2018 Jan 31, 2018 01/31/18
Pam Lahoud
Premier Developer consultant Julien Oudot brings us this blog with some considerations when designing a Cosmos DB database. The intent of this article is to summarize some of the key aspects to keep in mind while designing a database using Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. Sometimes ...

Microsoft’s Geospatial Capabilities

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18
Pam Lahoud
In a recent article published on LinkedIn, Premier Developer consultant Ron Vincent highlights some of Microsoft’s geospatial capabilities, both past and present.Microsoft has for some time now had some level of geospatial capabilities but since Azure has come along there has been many developments on this front. In this article, I think it...

Amazon Alexa Skills authenticated by Azure Active Directory and backed by an Azure Function

January 25, 2018 Jan 25, 2018 01/25/18
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This post is provided by Premier Field Engineer, Nathan Vanderby, who walks us through how to write an Alexa skill using Azure Functions.  Last updated June 2018. Most people have heard of the Amazon Echo and the skills that provide it functions. Amazon makes it really easy to create these skills using an AWS Lambda function. These can...

The performance characteristics of async methods in C#

January 25, 2018 Jan 25, 2018 01/25/18
Sergey Tepliakov
The async series In the last two blog posts we've covered the internals of async methods in C# and then we looked at the extensibility points the C# compiler provides to adjust the behavior of async methods. Today we're going to explore the performance characteristics of async methods. As you should already know from ...

Getting Started with Ethereum using Azure Blockchain

January 24, 2018 Jan 24, 2018 01/24/18
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In this post, Senior ADM Mike Finley discusses how to get started with Ethereum and Azure Blockchain.What is Blockchain? At the most basic level of understanding, blockchains are a simple approach to a distributed database. A blockchain is a peer-to-peer system with no central authority managing data flow. One of the key ways to removing ...