Developers

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We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of application consistent backup of Linux VMs running in Azure using Azure Backup.

Last week in Azure included several serverless topics that included Azure Functions and IoT, while some of the key Azure shows served up container-based content for your consideration.

We are very happy to announce the general availability of geo-replication support for Azure Redis Cache. Redis Cache is Microsoft Azure’s Cache-as-a-Service offering, based on the popular open source Redis in-memory key-value store.

We’re pleased to announce that the Azure SDK for Go is now generally available to help developers build apps for Azure with Go.

I am excited to announce that System Center, version 1801 is now available.

Voice is the new interface driving ambient computing. This statement has never been more true than it is today. Speech recognition is transforming our daily lives from digital assistants, dictation of emails and documents, to transcriptions of lectures and meetings.

Starting in late 2017, all new paid Azure Search services started using brand new, more powerful underlying hardware in select regions.

“Cold start” is a large discussion point for serverless architectures and is a point of ambiguity for many users of Azure Functions.

Azure Cosmos DB Graph API is the first cloud database to provide graph functionality over a globally distributed managed service.

The Speech API, a Microsoft Cognitive Service, now offers six new TTS languages to all developers, bringing the total number of available languages to 34.

Check out what happened last week in Azure: Event Grid became generally available, Ansible pre-installed in Cloud Shell, and more.