Blogs|Feb 18, 2018

Building on App Center

In my previous (and first) blog post on App Center I talked about getting started, adding the SDK to your code, and looking at Analytics and Crash reporting.  In this post I’d like to discuss building your app on App Center; which allows you to distribute your app to Beta testers and others. There are…
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Choices
How To|Feb 14, 2018

Choosing Between Containers and Serverless

Choosing the right tool for the job is not always as easy as it seems. Sometimes, there is more than one tool for doing something, and such is the case for cloud-based applications. In my last “Choosing between” post, I looked out how to choose between containers and virtual machines, and here the same tension…
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Blogs|Jan 31, 2018

Handling “Open File – Security Warning”

It seems like a simple enough task. Use an Azure File share to store an executable and use a PowerShell script to execute the application on a new virtual machines. In practice, however, you might find that the executable is quietly failing to run. Running the executable on the server manually, the problem becomes apparent…
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How To|Jan 31, 2018

Data Analysis in Python with Pandas Webinar

Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI are all trends dominating modern computing and revolve around one important thing – data. All that data needs, is to be cleaned, and transformed in specific ways, to take full advantage of the algorithms available. During this webinar, we’ll cover Pandas, one of the best libraries in Python to…
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Blogs|Jan 29, 2018

Getting Started with VS App Center

There is no doubt that Microsoft’s VS App Center is an incredible resource for mobile application programmers.  The problem is that it seems hard to get started.  The good news is that once you get started, it turns out to be wicked easy! For this blog post, I’m going to assume that you are already…
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Docker + Python
Blogs|Dec 20, 2017

Containerize a Python App in 5 Minutes

Python for better or worse has found cemented itself as the lingua franca of data science. With its rise in popularity also comes how it is deployed. Simultaneously with the rise in Python has also been the rise in container deployments. Like Python, containers are being used in data science as well to run processes…
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Node Docker
Blogs|Dec 4, 2017

Containerize a Node App in 5 Minutes

Node and Docker are a match made in heaven because the strengths of Node play to the strengths of Docker. Node microservices typically are built on top of the Express web server which can be configured with “just enough” server and run an application. Additionally, the Node package manager, NPM, makes installing and running Node…
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Blogs|Nov 28, 2017

Creating Web Apps for Your Machine Learning Models with Dash

In the last post, we created APIs for our machine learning models so they could be deployed and clients could invoke them. However, what if you just wanted a simple web page that included interactive and attractive graphs? That’s where Dash comes to the rescue. Dash is similar to Shiny, a framework to build interactive…
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DevOps|Nov 13, 2017

Using SSH with Visual Studio Team Services

In April 2016, Visual Studio Team Services introduced support for using SSH to connect to Git repositories. Over the summer of 2017, Microsoft made a number of improvements to reduce latency and improve performance for Git connections. These changes take advantage of Azure Traffic Manager to route the traffic over the Azure Global Network. According…
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Blogs|Nov 8, 2017

Creating a Machine Learning Web API with Flask

In our previous post, we went over how to create a simple linear regression model with scikit-learn and how to use it to make predictions. But, that’s not very useful for anyone other than the creator of the model since it’s only available on their machine. In this post, we’ll go over how to use…
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How To|Nov 6, 2017

Data Science for Developers Webinar

What exactly is data science?  How does one become a Data Scientist? Data Scientist has been labelled by the Harvard Business Review, as “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” A quick search of job search sites reveal that this field is in high demand. However, no one can agree on a common definition of…
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How To|Oct 20, 2017

Modernizing Legacy Apps with Containers Webinar

Rewriting applications is a costly endeavor. Sometimes the benefits do not outweigh the costs. A rewrite though isn’t the only way to modernize apps – one approach can be to use containers. Containers offer pathways to enable legacy apps to take advantage of cloud technologies and CI/CD tools. In this webinar, we’ll look at how…
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