What are we trying to accomplish? Azure runs a very decent Kubernetes service these days. I have used it as the main infrastructure in a couple of projects and am quite impressed. Impressed enough to even suggest it as the target platform for our largest projects 😊 So let’s take a typical Java project, a project consisting of one or
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Say you want to use an Azure DevOps pipeline to build your containerized app. This scenario is of course supported and you would leverage all the built-in stuff (built-in container image, default container tasks, hosted build agent, etc.). You can even choose between the UI or YAML to configure the build pipeline. But what if you cannot work with the
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Some notes on the final day @ LEAP! This was the final day and filled with various talks. For me the most interesting one today was related to the upcoming .NET 3.0 🙂 .NET 3.0 Microsoft has the focus on two new workloads for .NET: AI and IoT Open Sourced WinForms and WPF in December 2018 Improved performance Repl: Browse
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Notes (not a complete recap today) of day 4 of the LEAP event (day 1, day 2, day 3). Machine Learning Fundamentals The real measure how well a ML model is performing is how well it works with data it has never seen. The training phase could use 70% of data and the Test phase the remaining 30%. More information
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Recap of day 3 of the LEAP event (day 1 here, day 2 here). Day 3 will be (almost entirely) about containers and Kubernetes. The day starts with a high level overview of where we are heading with all of this. Containers/ microservices The real world is messy, so the regular sales pitch on Kubernetes and containers does not apply.
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Recap of day 2 of the LEAP event. You can find the recap of day 1 here. Power BI – developer extensibility Day 2 kicks of with a session on Power BI. Not how to use it, but how to extend it and aims to cover common developer scenarios. Important take away from this session: developer live for Power BI
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LEAP is an event aimed at architects working with Microsofts product portfolio. It focusses on gaining indepth knowledge about current products and future evolutions. The program includes five days of guided architecture-focused topics that enable you to deliver tomorrow’s solutions and allows for questions and dialogue with engineers and program managers from Microsoft. This year we (four collegues from VX
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