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Comparing the network performance of AWS, Azure and GCP

Comparing the network performance of AWS, Azure and GCP

February 26, 2020

Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud all significantly invest in their backbone networks and global regional data center presence to support perfo …
Open Source License Variations in Linux and Android: Comprehensive Examples and Insights

Open Source License Variations in Linux and Android: Comprehensive Examples and Insights

February 22, 2020

To comply with open source licenses, users must include proper license text in their software. Unfortunately, many times they include poorly-worded texts instead. To help solve this problem, Microsoft …
Navigating the Interface Between Open and Closed Source Software

Navigating the Interface Between Open and Closed Source Software

February 21, 2020

Organizations of all shapes and sizes face pressure to increase the pace at which they work, and open source software contributes to acceleration. Yet a huge proportion of the systems used in most ind …
Implementing an AI multicloud broker

Implementing an AI multicloud broker

February 19, 2020

Holger Kyas details the AI multicloud broker, which is triggered by Amazon Alexa and mediates between AWS Comprehend (Amazon), Azure Text Analytics (Microsoft), GCP Natural Language (Google), and Watson Tone Analyzer (IBM) to compare and analyze sentiment. The extended AI part generates new sentences (e.g., marketing slogans) with a recurrent neural network (RNN).
Democratization of data science: Using machine learning to build credit risk models

Democratization of data science: Using machine learning to build credit risk models

February 14, 2020

Tokyo Century was ready for a change. Credit risk decisions were taking too long and the home office was taking notice. The company needed a full stack data solution to increase the speed of loan authorizations, and it needed it quickly. Moto Tohda explains how Tokyo Century put data at the center of its credit risk decision making and removed institutional knowledge from the process.
Trill: The crown jewel of Microsofts streaming pipeline explained

Trill: The crown jewel of Microsofts streaming pipeline explained

February 8, 2020

Trill has been open-sourced, making the streaming engine behind services like the Bing Ads platform available for all to use and extend. James Terwilliger, Badrish Chandramouli, and Jonathan Goldstein dive into the history of and insights from streaming data at Microsoft. They demonstrate how its API can power complex application logic and the performance that gives the engine its name.
Container orchestrator to DL workload, Bing's approach: FrameworkLauncher

Container orchestrator to DL workload, Bing's approach: FrameworkLauncher

February 6, 2020

Bing in Microsoft runs large, complex workflows and services, but there was no existing solutions that met its needs. So it created and open-sourced FrameworkLauncher. Kai Liu, Yuqi Wang, and Bin Wang explore the solution, built to orchestrate workloads on YARN through the same interface without changes to the workloads, including large-scale long-running services, batch jobs, and streaming jobs.
Ask not what Brands can do for you

Ask not what Brands can do for you

February 1, 2020

You'll see a lot of companies on the OSCON 2019 keynote stage, each sharing how much they love free and open source software. You may even (sarcastically) think, "Gosh am I ever glad I got to hear from all of these Brands!" VM Brasseur explains why this perspective isn't very helpful for the companies trying to do open source correctly. They need usour knowledge, experience, and compassion.
Built to Last - building and growing open source communities

Built to Last - building and growing open source communities

January 31, 2020

Open source has become a cornerstone of many tech stacks. A good idea and few lines of code can be the start of the next big project, but many lose steam because they fail to foster a thriving community to shepherd the project in the years to come. Kay Williams explores key learnings for building strong open source communities based on Microsofts real-world experience with Kubernetes and VSCode.
Why you should care about open source software foundations (sponsored by Microsoft)

Why you should care about open source software foundations (sponsored by Microsoft)

January 23, 2020

As more and more businesses and people depend on open source software, critical technologies you rely on need to be sustained. Jon Galloway outlines what open source software foundations do for projects, the community, and the open source ecosystem as well as the importance of corporations and individuals getting involved.
Building serverless solutions that are resilient, scalable, and cost effective

Building serverless solutions that are resilient, scalable, and cost effective

January 22, 2020

Ruth Yakubu explores end-to-end serverless scenarios on Microsoft Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB, and Event Grid.
Community projects inform enterprise products (sponsored by Microsoft Azure)

Community projects inform enterprise products (sponsored by Microsoft Azure)

January 22, 2020

Lachlan Evenson and Bridget Kromhout discuss Microsoft's journey to build Kubernetes policy controller Gatekeeper in the open and explain how the tool helped inform how an enterprise offering on Azure. Join in for pragmatic tips on how to effectively contribute to and use open source tools.
The telemetry data revolution at Microsoft (sponsored by Microsoft)

The telemetry data revolution at Microsoft (sponsored by Microsoft)

January 18, 2020

Interested in becoming more data driven and empowering your peers and coworkers with insights and data? Yoni Leibowitz and Sasha Rosenbaum share how Microsoft has been constantly transforming its engineering, support, finance, and marketing work via new tech for data-driven decisions.
AI for social good: Saving the planet through data science

AI for social good: Saving the planet through data science

January 14, 2020

Global environmental challenges have pushed our planet to the brink of disaster. Rapid advances in deep learning are placing immense power in the hands of consumers and enterprises. Ganes Kesari explains how this power can be marshaled to support environmental groups and researchers who need immediate assistance to address the rapid depletion of our rich biodiversity.
AI Powered Edge Computing

AI Powered Edge Computing

January 8, 2020

Next-generation services in the Edge, powered by AI capabilities. How hybrid architectures re-key for next-generation killer use cases leveraging 5G and the Edge, by enabling ML/AI capabilities. Exper …
Automated ML: A journey from CRISPR.ML to Azure ML (sponsored by Microsoft Azure)

Automated ML: A journey from CRISPR.ML to Azure ML (sponsored by Microsoft Azure)

January 3, 2020

Automated ML is at the forefront of Microsofts push to make Azure ML an end-to-end solution for anyone who wants to build and train models that make predictions from data and then deploy them anywhere. Join Danielle Dean for a surprising conversation about a data scientists dilemma, a researchers ingenuity, and how cloud, data, and AI came together to help build automated ML.
Bringing your machine learning to production with ML Ops (sponsored by Microsoft)

Bringing your machine learning to production with ML Ops (sponsored by Microsoft)

January 2, 2020

Sarah Bird offers an overview of ML Ops (DevOps for machine learning), sharing solutions and best practices for an end-to-end pipeline for data preparation, model training, and model deployment while maintaining a comprehensive audit trail. Join in to learn how to build a cohesive and friction-free ecosystem for data scientists and app developers to collaborate together and maximize impact.
Faster ML over joins of tables

Faster ML over joins of tables

December 24, 2019

Arun Kumar details recent techniques to accelerate ML over data that is the output of joins of multiple tables. Using ideas from query optimization and learning theory, Arun demonstrates how to avoid joins before ML to reduce runtimes and memory and storage footprints. Along the way, he explores open source software prototypes and sample ML code in both R and Python.
Porting Envoy to Windows; A Progress Report

Porting Envoy to Windows; A Progress Report

December 16, 2019

Envoy is a high-performance open source edge and service proxy that makes the network transparent to applications. As of now Envoy is only available on Linux, and thats a big blocker for Windows team …
KEDA: Event Driven and Serverless Containers in Kubernetes

KEDA: Event Driven and Serverless Containers in Kubernetes

November 26, 2019

Event driven and serverless architectures are defining a new generation of apps. However, to take full advantage of the serverless benefits of event driven, your application needs to scale and react t …
Intro: Open Policy Agent

Intro: Open Policy Agent

November 10, 2019

Come to this session to learn about the OPA Gatekeeper project! Gatekeeper integrates OPA with Kubernetes to provide new features like parameterized CRD-based policies, auditing, policy library, and m …
Gatekeeper: Flexible, Shareable Policy for Kubernetes

Gatekeeper: Flexible, Shareable Policy for Kubernetes

September 26, 2019

How do you ensure your Kubernetes resources conform to your internal policies and procedures? Every organization defines rules governing where images can be deployed from and what labels all resources …