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Optical Illusions: Content Providers and the Impending Transformation of International Transport

Optical Illusions: Content Providers and the Impending Transformation of International Transport

January 23, 2020

In just the past four years, large content providers such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft have directly invested in 14 submarine cables The market's largest ban …
The Dao of defense: Choosing battles based on the seven chakras of security

The Dao of defense: Choosing battles based on the seven chakras of security

January 21, 2020

Computing has infiltrated society faster than we have been able to secure it. Defenders struggle with quantifying risk so that it translates into supported organizational changes and budget. Katie Moussouris explains how to transmute our suffering into kinetic and organizational changes and how to turn the forces that resist our defense activities into our biggest supporters in our organizations.
FPGA-accelerated data analytics (sponsored by Intel)

FPGA-accelerated data analytics (sponsored by Intel)

January 19, 2020

Microsoft has widely deployed field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for accelerating search, networking, and machine learningwith a little help from Intel's software expertise and its FPGA programmers. Mike Strickland explains how a single FPGA can deliver significant acceleration for multiple workloads.
Cognitive Workloads on the Cloud: What Clouds Need To Do

Cognitive Workloads on the Cloud: What Clouds Need To Do

January 18, 2020

With the emergence of new powerful hardware accelerators, such as Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) and Programmable Field Gate Arrays (FPGAs), more and more artificial intelligence (AI) has appeared …
Open Undersea Cable Systems

Open Undersea Cable Systems

January 18, 2020

Undersea bandwidth demand continues to increase for large-scale cloud providers, driven by phenomenal growth of cloud services and the globally distributed nature …
Building microservices with ASP.NET Core

Building microservices with ASP.NET Core

January 13, 2020

Microsoft finally has a truly open source, cross-platform development framework that is ideal for building cloud-native microservices: ASP.NET Core. Kevin Hoffman explains how to use ASP.NET Core to build immutable releases with Docker, address real-world concerns like configuration, security, and data access, and implement continuous integration and continuous delivery in the cloud.
Implementing an event-driven microservices architecture in a functional language

Implementing an event-driven microservices architecture in a functional language

January 12, 2020

Web services are typically stateless entities that need to operate at scale. Nikhil Barthwal explains how Jet.com implemented event-driven microservices architecture using a functional language, demonstrating how the functional paradigm captures the behavior of this service architecture very naturally and offers several benefits, such as scalability, productivity, and correctness.
Open Source and Cross-Platform Tools for Azure Developers

Open Source and Cross-Platform Tools for Azure Developers

January 8, 2020

Azure is built around the open source developer. From our emphasis on .NET Core, PowerShell Core, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux to services like linux VMs, linux web apps, and support for contai …
AI mimicking nature: Flying and talking (sponsored by Microsoft)

AI mimicking nature: Flying and talking (sponsored by Microsoft)

December 27, 2019

Lili Cheng shares two examples of AI inspired by nature. In the first, Microsoft researchers created a system that uses artificial intelligence that draws on the way birds fly to keep a sailplane aloft. The second explores what makes people unique, our language instinct, and our ability to model how people socialize and accomplish work.
Serverless - Is It For Your Organization?

Serverless - Is It For Your Organization?

December 26, 2019

This talk will examine the Serverless phenomenon, popularized by AWS Lambda but now proposed by many public cloud providers such as Google and Microsoft. Well look at what Serverless is, what advant …
Making Trusted Boot Practical on Linux

Making Trusted Boot Practical on Linux

December 25, 2019

TPMs can be used to record the state of the boot process, and that information can in turn be used to restrict access to secrets (such as disk encryption keys) in order to protect them against a compr …
Building a powerful data science IDE for R, Python, and SQL using JupyterLab

Building a powerful data science IDE for R, Python, and SQL using JupyterLab

December 24, 2019

JupyterLab provides a robust foundation for building flexible computational environments. Ali Marami explains how R-Brain leveraged the JupyterLab extension architecture to build a powerful IDE for data scientists, one of the few tools in the market that evenly supports R and Python in data science and includes features such as IntelliSense, debugging, and environment and data view.
Achieve predictable performance (sponsored by Intel)

Achieve predictable performance (sponsored by Intel)

December 17, 2019

Alex Grbic explains how a single FPGA can deliver significant acceleration for multiple workloads. This new approach of integrating data analytics frameworks and existing databases enables enterprise customers to run unmodified applications without requiring any FPGA expertise and can be used with unstructured, NoSQL, and traditional relational databases, such as Swarm64.
Lessons learned from building a globally distributed database service from the ground up

Lessons learned from building a globally distributed database service from the ground up

December 15, 2019

Dharma Shukla explores Azure Cosmos DB, discussing the internals of the system design and the various design trade-offs Azure had to make while building the service. Dharma also shares his experience and lessons learned operating a globally distributed database service worldwide while maintaining comprehensive service level agreements.
What we learned moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the public cloud (sponsored by Microsoft)

What we learned moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the public cloud (sponsored by Microsoft)

December 12, 2019

Martin Woodward tells the story of how Microsofts internal engineering systems are being transformed from a collection of disparate in-house tools built up over decades to One Engineering System with a globally distributed 24x7x365 service on the public cloud, utilizing modern techniques and industry-recognized open source technologies.
Build big data enterprise solutions faster on Azure HDInsight

Build big data enterprise solutions faster on Azure HDInsight

December 5, 2019

Pranav Rastogi explains how to simplify your big data solutions with Datameer, AtScale, Dataiku, and StreamSets on Microsofts Azure HDInsight, a cloud Spark and Hadoop service for the enterprise. Join in to learn practical information that will enable faster time to insights for you and your business.
Accelerating Humanitarian Relief with Kubernetes [I]

Accelerating Humanitarian Relief with Kubernetes [I]

December 4, 2019

How can UN humanitarian aid field experts use social media to gain insight, understand trends and track key humanitarian issues? Through a collaboration with Microsoft and UN OCHA, Project Fortis was …
Adopting open source in your organization

Adopting open source in your organization

November 28, 2019

Recently, Microsoft went from calling open source "a cancer" to being the biggest contributor on GitHub. Edward Thomson explains how Microsoft, one of the unlikeliest software vendors, began to embrace and even extend (but not extinguish) open source software and how you can begin using and contributing to open source software in your organization.
How and why we're opening our code at Octopus Deploy

How and why we're opening our code at Octopus Deploy

November 23, 2019

Are you thinking about open sourcing your codebase? Octopus Deploy started as a closed source project, but the company is making an effort to open source more of its code. Damian Brady explains why Octopus Deploy choose to open source software that is core to its business, how it chose what parts to open source, and how the company ensured it won't lose intellectual property and market advantage.
Open source contribution and collaboration: How (and why) Netflix drives industry engagement

Open source contribution and collaboration: How (and why) Netflix drives industry engagement

November 22, 2019

Netflix has become well known for its contributions to open source, creating and contributing to over 50 active projects. Dianne Marsh tells the story of Spinnaker to demonstrate how open source contributes to Netflix's success and vice versa.
That's the sound of hell freezing over: bash and Linux binaries running on Windows 10How? Why? WHAT?

That's the sound of hell freezing over: bash and Linux binaries running on Windows 10How? Why? WHAT?

November 20, 2019

Windows 10 now includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which runs native, unmodified Linux binaries directly on Windows. Rich Turner discusses why, how, and what Microsoft built and shares what's coming next.
Working with cloud filesystems: From semantics to application

Working with cloud filesystems: From semantics to application

November 18, 2019

Sean Mackrory offers an overview of and best practices for filesystems in public cloud infrastructures as they relate to traditional filesystems. Many of the examples will relate to Hadoop, namely moving from HDFS to S3.
Big data, AI, the genome, and everything (sponsored by Microsoft)

Big data, AI, the genome, and everything (sponsored by Microsoft)

November 8, 2019

Vijay Narayanan takes you on an inspiring journey exploring how the cloud, data, and artificial intelligence are powering and accelerating the genomic revolutionsaving and changing lives in the process.
From rivulets to rivers: Elastic stream processing in Heron

From rivulets to rivers: Elastic stream processing in Heron

November 6, 2019

Twitter processes billions of events per day the instant the data is generated using Heron, an open source streaming engine tailored for large-scale environments. Bill Graham, Avrilia Floratau, and Ashvin Agrawal explore the techniques Heron uses to elastically scale resources in order to handle highly varying loads without sacrificing real-time performance or user experience.
How Microsoft predicts churn of cloud customers using deep learning and explains those predictions in an interpretable way

How Microsoft predicts churn of cloud customers using deep learning and explains those predictions in an interpretable way

November 5, 2019

Although deep learning has proved to be very powerful, few results are reported on its application to business-focused problems. Feng Zhu and Val Fontama explore how Microsoft built a deep learning-based churn predictive model and demonstrate how to explain the predictions using LIMEa novel algorithm published in KDD 2016to make the black box models more transparent and accessible.
The common anomaly detection platform at Microsoft

The common anomaly detection platform at Microsoft

November 1, 2019

Tony Xing offers an overview of Microsoft's common anomaly detection platform, an API service built internally to provide product teams the flexibility to plug in any anomaly detection algorithms to fit their own signal types.
Using big data, the cloud, and AI to enable intelligence at scale (sponsored by Microsoft)

Using big data, the cloud, and AI to enable intelligence at scale (sponsored by Microsoft)

October 31, 2019

Wee Hyong Tok and Danielle Dean explain how the global, trusted, and hybrid Microsoft platform can enable you to do intelligence at scale, describing real-life applications where big data, the cloud, and AI are making a difference and how this is accelerating the digital transformation for these organizations at a lighting pace.