Month: June 2020

What we can teach a model to do with natural language is dictated by the availability of data. Currently, we have a lot of labeled data for very few languages, making it difficult to train models to accomplish question answering, text summarization, and other tasks in every language and ultimately limiting the amount of people […]

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If you work on any type of app that has a user interface (UI) you probably have experienced that inner-loop development cycle of making a change, compile and run the app, see the change wasn’t what you wanted, stop debugging, then re-run the cycle again. Depending on the frameworks or technology you use, there are options to improve this exp Continue reading Introducing “Web Live Preview”→

Ever since Azure Cosmos DB first released a Java SDK, we’ve had many customers ask us to improve the SDK such that the customer can max out request throughput with fewer client-side CPUs. Server-side, it’s no problem to scale up Azure Cosmos DB for any demand. However, in high-performance applications, the client app often drives compute cores Continue reading Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK v4 – General Availability→

In a recent post, we explored the basics of asynchronous code, why it’s important, and how to write it in C#.  However, while it can improve your program’s overall throughput, async code is still not exempt from bugs!  Writing async code makes debugging more difficult when potential deadlocks, vague error messages, and finding which task Continue reading How Do I Debug Async Code in Visual Studio?→

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Last year we added inbound user provisioning from Workday to Azure AD, and customers like ASOS and Pernod Ricard are already using it to automate their HR and IT processes. Recently, we announced a strategic partnership with Workday… Continue reading Give your HR and IT teams more reasons to cheer with improved integration between Workday & Azure AD→

Now that we figured out how to probe whether there is sufficient remaining stack, we can use that to avoid all the work of creating and managing a fiber if we don’t need it.

If there is sufficient stack available, then we just run the lambda immediately. Otherwise, we ask Run­On­Fiber to create a fiber and run the lambda on that temporary Continue reading Using fibers to expand a thread’s stack at runtime, part 5→

As someone who has worked in IT departments and an IT consultant for a Managed Service Provider (MSP), Business Continuity plans are something I’ve been involved in quite a lot.  Either recovering from a threat or designing a solution that could … Continue reading Business Continuity with Azure – Connectivity→

Apache Kafka is an open source streaming platform and Azure Data Explorer is a big data analytical database, purpose-built for low latency and near real time analytics on all manners of logs, time series datasets, IoT telemetry and more.  The Azur… Continue reading Kafka ingestion into Azure Data Explorer – Part 1→