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Bringing digital ledger interoperability to Nasdaq Financial Framework through Microsoft Azure Blockchain 

Nasdaq revolutionized financial markets in 1971 by opening them up to millions of individual investors with the world’s first-ever electronic stock exchange. Since then, the company’s innovative spirit has kept them on the leading edge of technology evolution in capital markets, while transforming the brand into a powerhouse technology provider.

Published • 5 min read

Building an ecosystem for responsible drone use and development on Microsoft Azure 

The next wave of computing is already taking shape around us as IoT enables businesses to sense all aspects of their business in real-time and take informed action, to running cloud workloads on those IoT devices so those devices don’t require “always on” connectivity to the cloud to make real-time context-aware decisions. This is the intelligent edge, and it will define the next wave of innovation, not just for business but also how we address some of the world’s most pressing issues.

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Azure Cosmos DB partitioning design patterns – Part 1 

In this article, you will learn how to use partition keys to efficiently distribute data, improve application performance, and enable faster look-up. The pre-requisites of this article are general knowledge of Azure Cosmos DB and a good understanding of change feed, request unit (RU) and Azure Functions.