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FaaS Shell: Multi-cloud Portable Serverless Function Workflow

FaaS Shell: Multi-cloud Portable Serverless Function Workflow

February 10, 2020

Serverless Function Workflow is available from each FaaS for their own such as AWS Step Functions, Azure Logic Apps, IBM Function Composer, Fission Flow, and etc. Hence workflow isn't portable. This …
Deep learning on audio in Azure to detect sounds in real time

Deep learning on audio in Azure to detect sounds in real time

January 25, 2020

In this auditory world, the human brain processes and reacts effortlessly to a variety of sounds. While many of us take this for granted, there are over 360 million in this world who are deaf or hard of hearing. Swetha Machanavajhala and Xiaoyong Zhu explain how to make the auditory world inclusive and meet the great demand in other sectors by applying deep learning on audio in Azure.
ONAP Continuous Deployment on OOM Kubernetes via Public Cloud

ONAP Continuous Deployment on OOM Kubernetes via Public Cloud

January 17, 2020

This presentation will describe the Kubernetes based ONAP OOM docker deployment of the Amsterdam release in support of orchestration and management of the ONAP system. Using a Microsoft Azure public s …
Distributed deep learning in the cloud: Build an end-to-end application involving computer vision and geospatial data

Distributed deep learning in the cloud: Build an end-to-end application involving computer vision and geospatial data

January 13, 2020

High-resolution land cover maps help quantify long-term trends like deforestation and urbanization but are prohibitively costly and time intensive to produce. Mary Wahl and Banibrata De demonstrate how to use Microsofts Cognitive Toolkit and Azure cloud resources to produce land cover maps from aerial imagery by training a semantic segmentation DNNboth on single VMs and at scale on GPU clusters.
Kubernetes and The GitOps Face-Off

Kubernetes and The GitOps Face-Off

January 7, 2020

During the last year, we have seen how Kubernetes GitOps has made organizations rethink CI/CD from storing all declarative aspects in git, reducing the use of manual kubectl commands and managing depl …
Using a Managed Kubernetes Service in the Enterprise

Using a Managed Kubernetes Service in the Enterprise

January 7, 2020

All the major cloud providers have managed Kubernetes services such as GKE (Google Cloud Platform), EKS (Amazon Web Services) and AKS (Microsoft Azure). These managed services aim to provide you a Kub …
Tutorial: Deploying Windows Apps with Draft, Helm and Kubernetes

Tutorial: Deploying Windows Apps with Draft, Helm and Kubernetes

January 2, 2020

IMPORTANT NOTE:Due to the nature of tutorials, this session has been placed in a smaller capacity room to help facilitate a conducive learning environment. Space is very limited and seating will be g …
Distributed systems for stream processing: Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming

Distributed systems for stream processing: Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming

December 30, 2019

Alena Hall walks you through setting up and building a distributed streaming architecture on Azure using open source frameworks like Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming. You'll use these distributed systems to process data coming from multiple sources in real time and perform machine learning tasks.
Abstracting Heavy Lifting: How K8s Speeds Up Multi-Cloud Solution Delivery

Abstracting Heavy Lifting: How K8s Speeds Up Multi-Cloud Solution Delivery

December 29, 2019

At CircleCI, we build a complex, distributed system for CI/CD used by thousands of sophisticated teams. While we started as a single-cloud, SaaS product, weve grown to serve huge customers, across cl …
Kubernetes 101

Kubernetes 101

December 29, 2019

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a techie in possession of any production code whatsoever must be in want of a container orchestration platform. What's up for debate, according to noted thought leader Jane Austen, is how many pizzas the team is going to eat. Join Bridget Kromhout to learn how to create and operate a Kubernetes cluster in order to answer this crucial question.
Intro: Azure SIG

Intro: Azure SIG

December 26, 2019

In the SIG Azure Intro, were going to tell you all about why SIG Azure exists and the team behind managing it. From there, well talk about whats happened over the last few releases, Kubernetes 1.11 …
Tooling in the age of serverless computing

Tooling in the age of serverless computing

December 18, 2019

Tooling is necessary for serverless and service-full applications. Donna Malayeri shares a decision framework for choosing infrastructure deployment tools, based on whether you need flexibility and control or simplicity and ease-of-use. You'll learn how to evaluate several popular cloud automation tools, including AWS SAM, Terraform, Chalice, Serverless Framework, and more.
Fixing JavaScript Date: A journey from Minneapolis to Microsoft, TC39, and everywhere in between

Fixing JavaScript Date: A journey from Minneapolis to Microsoft, TC39, and everywhere in between

December 16, 2019

Maggie Pint explains how bad date support in JavaScript took one frontend developer (her) from making HR software in Minneapolis to working as an Azure SRE. It's a story of failures and heartbreaks but also of change, success, and the amazing power of the many people in the open source and standards community.
You Can't Have a Cluster [BLEEP] Without a Cluster

You Can't Have a Cluster [BLEEP] Without a Cluster

December 15, 2019

I've been running Kubernetes in production for 2 years, and have worked on enterprise Kubernetes service teams including the Azure managed Kubernetes team. This presentation is very special and will t …
Deep Dive: Azure SIG

Deep Dive: Azure SIG

December 13, 2019

In the SIG Azure Deep Dive, were going to tell you all about why SIG Azure exists and the team behind managing it. From there, well talk about whats happened over the last few releases, Kubernetes …
Detecting small-scale mines in Ghana

Detecting small-scale mines in Ghana

December 10, 2019

Michael Lanzetta and Elena Terenzi offer an overview of a collaboration between Microsoft and the Royal Holloway University that applied deep learning to locate illegal small-scale mines in Ghana using satellite imagery, scaled training using Kubernetes, and investigated the mines' impact on surrounding populations and environment.
Distributed training of deep learning models

Distributed training of deep learning models

December 10, 2019

Mathew Salvaris, Miguel Gonzalez-Fierro, and Ilia Karmanov offer a comparison of two platforms for running distributed deep learning training in the cloud, using a ResNet network trained on the ImageNet dataset as an example. You'll examine the performance of each as the number of nodes scales and learn some tips and tricks as well as some pitfalls to watch out for.
Operationalize deep learning models for fraud detection with Azure Machine Learning Workbench

Operationalize deep learning models for fraud detection with Azure Machine Learning Workbench

December 6, 2019

Advancements in computing technologies and ecommerce platforms have amplified the risk of online fraud, which results in billions of dollars of loss for the financial industry. This trend has urged companies to consider AI techniques, including deep learning, for fraud detection. Francesca Lazzeri and Jaya Mathew explain how to operationalize deep learning models with Azure ML to prevent fraud.
Practical advice for driving down the cost of cloud big data platforms

Practical advice for driving down the cost of cloud big data platforms

December 6, 2019

Big data and cloud deployments return huge benefits in flexibility and economics but can also result in runaway costs and failed projects. Drawing on his production experience, Christopher Royles shares tips and best practices for determining initial sizing, strategic planning, and longer-term operation, helping you deliver an efficient platform, reduce costs, and implement a successful project.
Keynote: Container-Native Dev-and-ops Experience: It's Getting Easier, Fast.

Keynote: Container-Native Dev-and-ops Experience: It's Getting Easier, Fast.

November 30, 2019

The theme of Austin's KubeCon was that kubernetes is still too hard for developers. The Azure team has been working hard to improve the ease of container-native app development, using 100% open source …
Deep learning for domain-specific entity extraction from unstructured text

Deep learning for domain-specific entity extraction from unstructured text

November 27, 2019

Mohamed AbdelHady and Zoran Dzunic demonstrate how to build a domain-specific entity extraction system from unstructured text using deep learning. In the model, domain-specific word embedding vectors are trained on a Spark cluster using millions of PubMed abstracts and then used as features to train a LSTM recurrent neural network for entity extraction.
Distributed clinical models: Inference without sharing patient data

Distributed clinical models: Inference without sharing patient data

November 26, 2019

Clinical collaboration benefits from pooling data to train models from large datasets, but it's hampered by concerns about sharing data. Balasubramanian Narasimhan, John-Mark Agosta, and Philip Lavori outline a privacy-preserving alternative that creates statistical models equivalent to one from the entire dataset.
Speed up mission-critical analytics in the cloud (sponsored by Kyligence)

Speed up mission-critical analytics in the cloud (sponsored by Kyligence)

November 20, 2019

As organizations look to scale their analytics capability, the need to grow beyond a traditional data warehouse becomes critical, and cloud-based solutions allow more flexibility while being more cost efficient. Billy Liu offers an overview of Kyligence Cloud, a managed Apache Kylin online service designed to speed up mission-critical analytics at web scale for big data.
Deploying Hyperledger Fabric with Kubernetes/Helm

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric with Kubernetes/Helm

November 8, 2019

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric to production on Kubernetes is not a solved topic, AID:Tech present their work on designing and open-sourcing Helm Charts.Rather than developing a monolithic Helm chart, A …
Continued: Deploying Hyperledger Fabric with Kubernetes/Helm

Continued: Deploying Hyperledger Fabric with Kubernetes/Helm

November 7, 2019

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric to production on Kubernetes is not a solved topic, AID:Tech present their work on designing and open-sourcing Helm Charts.Rather than developing a monolithic Helm chart, A …
Deploying Hyperledger Fabric with Kubernetes/Helm

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric with Kubernetes/Helm

November 7, 2019

Deploying Hyperledger Fabric to production on Kubernetes is not a solved topic, AID:Tech present their work on designing and open-sourcing Helm Charts.Rather than developing a monolithic Helm chart, A …