Destiny 2 Hands-on: Hunting the Cabal in Bungie’s Ambitious Shooter Sequel

As soon as we dove into our hands-on demo of Destiny 2‘s story-driven campaign, our Warlock Guardian’s Ghost asked, “What are the Cabal doing to the Traveler?” The artificial intelligence companion was referring to an enormous enemy craft that’d attached itself, Facehugger-like, to the mysterious, moon-like entity central to Destiny’s mythology. It was a disturbing image, especially for fans who spent much of their time in the original Destiny socializing beneath this sacred sphere. As that faithful following knows, the Traveler isn’t just one of the series’ most iconic symbols, but also the keeper of the Light, the powerful gift… Continue reading Destiny 2 Hands-on: Hunting the Cabal in Bungie’s Ambitious Shooter Sequel

Universally Scalable Concurrent Search Data Structures | Microsoft Research

The design of fast, scalable, and correct concurrent systems remains a notoriously difficult task. Particularly problematic is the design of fast and scalable concurrent search data structures, which lie at the core of many modern systems.In this talk,… Continue reading Universally Scalable Concurrent Search Data Structures | Microsoft Research

IdentityServer4: New & Improved for ASP.NET Core | Techorama 2017

IdentityServer has been used in lots of different environments and scenarios for building token-based security systems. The recent release of ASP.NET Core has provided an opportunity to re-work and re-think the foundation of this OpenID Connect & OAuth 2.0 framework. This new version incorporates what we’ve learned over the last couple of years implementing these security architectures. This session will walk you through what’s new and improved.

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C# Code-focused development with Visual Studio 2017 | Techorama 2017

Visual Studio is a productivity game changer for C#! The .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”) enables many new experiences that will change the way you write and debug code. In this session, we’ll dig into features that bring a new level of awesome to the C# language and IDE experience. Come learn about new language features, refactoring support, major debugging enhancements, code-aware frameworks, and much more!

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Keynote: Azure – The Intelligent Cloud | Techorama 2017

Experience the newest technologies in Azure by joining Scott Guthrie for a session on how you can do more on the intelligent cloud. Scott will present a deep dive into Microsoft’s cloud services, advanced workloads and capabilities. He’ll do a number of demonstrations first-hand to show how these solutions can enable you to achieve more using the best of the Linux ecosystem and the best of the Windows ecosystem, together. Demos will include the latest in infrastructure, enterprise mobility + security, Xamarin/mobile development, SQL, Data Lake, Cognitive Services, open source capabilities, Hybrid cloud, Azure Stack, Logic Apps, developer tools and services, containers and more.

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Announcing the public preview of the Office 365 adoption content pack in PowerBI

Today, we’re pleased to announce the public preview of the Office 365 Adoption Content Pack in Power BI. This toolset enables admins to visualize and analyze their Office 365 usage data, create custom reports, share insights and target training and communications to help drive their organization’s digital transformation.

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