One of the challenges of large scale data analysis is being able to get the value from data with least effort. Doing that often involves multiple stages: provisioning infrastructure, accessing or moving data, transforming or filtering data, analyzing and learning from data, automating the data pipelines, connecting with other services…

We are delighted to announce the Applied Cloud Stories initiative by Microsoft! 📚 What Is Applied Cloud Stories? Do you work with open-source? Are you passionate about machine learning or data science? Do you have stories to share about solving scale or data challenges? Are you investing time and effort so that you and your teams…

F# is an open-source, functional, general-purpose programming language that originates from Microsoft Research and is used by many engineers across the globe. F# is actively developed by the open-source community and Microsoft’s developer division. One of the great examples showing F# strengths is Azure Storage Type Provider. It helps ensure…

For more useful information on technical topics follow @lenadroid on Twitter and subscribe to her YouTube channel. For detailed documentation of Azure topics covered in this article, take a look at Azure Functions, Managed Identities documentation, and Azure CLI. To follow through examples, get started with Free Trial. Introduction In this…

For detailed documentation of Azure topics covered in this article, take a look at Managed Identities documentation, Azure Linux Virtual Machines, and Azure CLI. To follow through examples, get started with Free Trial. Introduction In this article we are discussing Azure Managed Identities! Why is it a good idea to use…

Apache Spark it is an open-source fault tolerant distributed computing framework and scalable data processing system, which is part of Apache Software Foundation. Spark is an actively maintained project with vibrant community that consists of multiple components with Spark Core as a foundation of it. Other components include Spark SQL…

The year of 2017 has started with continuation of me working at Microsoft Research on a super fascinating project “Springfield”, which is now called “Microsoft Security Risk Detection”. As you might have guessed, I have been a functional programming enthusiast for quite a long time and was absorbed by functional…

In this article, I am going to cover several topics, related to distributed databases, containers, cloud and functional programming. Prerequisites I already have a Kubernetes cluster provisioned in Azure. Look here if you would like to create one. Distributed databases — systems that require stable persistence If we think about it, a database and data are most valuable parts…

Be a professional in what you do In anything you do. If you want to achieve something, you have to be better than others in these particular things. Be ready that your knowledge and skills will always be questioned — be able to prove that you really deserve this job, because you really deserve to be respected…