“Earlier this year, we introduced Project Flash in the Advancing Reliability blog series, to reaffirm our commitment to empowering Azure customers in monitoring virtual machine (VM) availability in a robust and comprehensive manner. Today, we’re excited to share the progress we’ve made since then in developing holistic monitoring offerings to meet customers’ distinct needs. I’ve […]
Archives for November 2022
Azure comes to Dallas for Supercomputing
Supercomputing (SC), held annually, is arguably one of the biggest annual events in high-performance computing (HPC). It’s a great chance for the community to connect and learn from one another, and for Microsoft, the goal remains the same. After a couple years of virtual-only events, we’re thrilled to be joining you in person in Dallas […]
Article: Who Moved My Code? An Anatomy of Code Obfuscation
In this article, we introduce the topic of code obfuscation, with emphasis on string obfuscation. Obfuscation is an important practice to protect source code by making it unintelligible. Obfuscation is often mistaken with encryption, but they are different concepts. In the article we will present a number of techniques and approaches used to obfuscate data […]
Accelerate your cloud-native journey with Azure Monitor
This blog was co-authored by Xema Pathak, Senior Product Manager; Sahil Arora, Principal PM Lead; Matthew McCleary, Senior Program Manager and Brian Wren, Principal Content Developer. Organizations are going through an era of digital transformation and are embracing various cloud-native technologies to fuel innovation. Developers are critical to this transformation; they need to quickly bring […]
Uber Freight Near-Real-Time Analytics Architecture
Uber Freight is the Uber platform dedicated to connecting shippers with carriers. Providing reliable service to shippers is crucial for Uber Freight. This is why the Carrier Scorecard was developed, with several metrics including on-time pickup/delivery, tracking automation, and late cancellations. By Claudio Masolo
Unraveling Techno-Solutionism: How I Fell Out of Love with “Ethical” Machine Learning
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Katherine Jarmul gave a talk on unravelling techno-solutionism, in which she explored the inherent bias in AI training datasets, the bias that assumes there will be a technical solution to almost any problem and that those technical solutions will be beneficial for mankind. She posed questions for technologists […]
Zero downtime migration for Azure Front Door—now in preview
In March of this year, we announced the general availability of two new Azure Front Door tiers. Azure Front Door Standard and Premium is our native, modern cloud content-delivery network (CDN), catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with built-in turnkey security and a simple and predictable pricing model. It has already been […]
Build a globally resilient architecture with Azure Load Balancer
Azure Load Balancer’s global tier is a cloud-native global network load balancing solution. With cross-region Load Balancer, customers can distribute traffic across multiple Azure regions with ultra-low latency and high performance. To better understand the use case of Azure’s cross-region Load Balancer, let’s dive deeper into a customer scenario. In this blog, we’ll learn about […]
Sharing the latest improvements to efficiency in Microsoft’s datacenters
In April, I published a blog that explained how we define and measure energy and water use at our datacenters, and how we are committed to continuous improvements. Now, in the lead up to COP27, the global climate conference to be held in Egypt, I am pleased to provide a number of updates on how […]
Secure your digital payment system in the cloud with Azure Payment HSM—now generally available
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure Payment HSM, a BareMetal Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) that enables customers to have native access to payment HSM in the Azure cloud. With Azure Payment HSM, customers can seamlessly migrate PCI workloads to Azure and meet the most stringent security, audit compliance, low […]