Microsoft Open Source Blog Towards debuggability and secure deployments of eBPF programs on Windows
eBPF for Windows native code generation is a new mode of execution that maintains the integrity of the kernel and provides the safety promises of eBPF. Read more
DevOps
Feathr feature store joins LF AI & Data Foundation
Together with our colleagues at LinkedIn, we are happy to announce that Feathr is joining the LF AI Data Foundation, an umbrella foundation of the Linux Foundation supporting open source innovation in AI and data. Read more
Microsoft’s OSPO year in review—what we’ve learned
“Tech companies born with an open source mentality get it. It’s our ability to work together that makes our dreams believable and, ultimately, achievable. We must learn to build on the ideas of others”—Satya Nadella Whenever I teach open source at Microsoft, I open with this quote from Satya. Whether new to Microsoft, or learning Read more
Add AI to mobile applications with Xamarin and ONNX Runtime
ONNX Runtime now supports building mobile applications in C# with Xamarin. Support for Android and iOS is included in the ONNX Runtime release 1.10 NuGet package. This enables C# developers to build AI applications for Android and iOS to execute ONNX models on mobile devices with ONNX Runtime. ONNX Runtime is the open source project Read more
Join Microsoft and the Spring community at SpringOne 2021
Microsoft loves Spring, and we’d love to see you at SpringOne during September 1 – 2, 2021. Join us for Spring on Azure announcements and attend keynotes, sessions, and hands-on workshops over a two-day, all-virtual event. Spring is an important part of the Java ecosystem and we’ve been working together with VMware to make it Read more
Introducing Distributed Data Parallel support on PyTorch Windows
Model training has been and will be in the foreseeable future one of the most frustrating things machine learning developers face. It takes quite a long time and people can’t really do anything about it. If you have the luxury (especially at this moment of time) of having multiple GPUs, you are likely to find Read more
Simple steps to create scalable processes to deploy ML models as microservices
This post was co-authored by Alejandro Saucedo, Director of Machine Learning Engineering at Seldon Technologies. About the co-author: Alejandro leads teams of machine learning engineers focused on the scalability and extensibility of machine learning deployment and monitoring products with over five million installations. Alejandro is also the Chief Scientist at the Institute for Ethical AI Read more
Ansible 2.9: Azure shared image galleries, Azure collection, and new modules
With the release of Ansible 2.9, Microsoft furthers its commitment to ensure that Azure provides excellent experiences for Ansible users when automating the provisioning and configuration of Azure resources. To provide great end-to-end experiences for all users, we’re announcing the expansion of Azure service coverage and the ability to release more frequent updates to Ansible Read more
Attention: MySQL & PostgreSQL Azure Terraform resource users
We want to give a heads-up to Azure customers who are using Terraform to provision and manage MySQL and/or PostgreSQL. As planned, the Azure data team will deprecate their ‘2017-04-30-preview’ API for both MySQL and PostgreSQL on December 1, 2018. I know that you are asking yourself, “As a Terraform user, why do I care?” Read more
Tutorial: Using Azure DevOps to setup a CI/CD pipeline and deploy to Kubernetes
Note: for its 1-year anniversary, I refreshed this blog article in November 2019 to leverage new features with Helm 3 and Azure Pipelines (mainly YAML for both Build/CI and Release/CD), as well as to incorporate great feedback we’ve been receiving from our readers. Thank you! Introduction In this blog article, we will show you how Read more
Tutorial: Terraforming your JAMstack on Azure with Gatsby, Azure Pipelines, and Git
This article will show how to build a blog (or any other static content) using a very popular JAMstack (GatsbyJS, GraphQL, Markdown) and host it on static website hosting for Azure Storage, which provides a cost effective and scalable solution for hosting static content and JavaScript code. We will demonstrate how to optimize the website Read more
Microsoft and HashiCorp collaborate to build a better Terraform provider
For those who might be wondering what HashiCorp Terraform is, Terraform is a tool which enables workflows for operators to provision and manage Azure infrastructure using “Infrastructure as Code.” For a good overview, check out this introduction to Terraform. Wait, Infrastructure as Code… isn’t that what Azure Resource Management (ARM) templates are used for? Yes, ARM templates and Terraform Read more