Developers

APIs have become mundane. They have become the de facto standard for connecting apps, data, and services. In the larger picture, APIs are driving digital transformation in organizations.

Since our public preview announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2018, every month thousands of developers worldwide have leveraged the Azure SignalR Service bindings for Azure Functions to add real-time capabilities to their serverless applications.

Azure Databricks provides a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark™-based analytics platform to accelerate and simplify the process of building big data and AI solutions backed by industry leading SLAs.

Following the launch of Azure DevOps in September, we’re pleased to announce the official release of Azure DevOps Server 2019! Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server 2019 brings the power of Azure DevOps into your dedicated environment.

When someone mentions the words “Internet of Things,” often the first picture that comes to mind is some sort of device with the Internet “built-in.

Announcing Azure Spatial Anchors for collaborative, cross-platform mixed reality apps; Introducing Microsoft Azure Sentinel, intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise; Announcing Azure Integration Service Environment for Logic Apps; and much more!

Organizations deploying IoT solutions often ask similar questions as they address security—What is the risk my organization takes on as we adopt IoT? How much security do we need for our scenario? Where should we invest for the biggest impact?

Take advantage of reliable collections to process event from Event Hubs using Service Fabric Processor. This new library lets to manage partitions and also provide with sophisticated load balancing.

For read-heavy workloads that you are looking to scale out, you can use read replicas, which are now generally available to all Azure Database for MySQL users.

Ensure security and limit access to your MariaDB server with the virtual network (VNet) service endpoints now generally available for Azure Database for MariaDB.

Developers can now access the latest Cognitive Services Speech SDK which now supports: Selection of the input microphone through the AudioConfig class, Unity in C# (beta), and additional sample code. Read the updated Speech Services documentation to get started today.

There are numerous IoT use cases in different industries. The most common categories of IoT use cases include predictive maintenance, connected vehicles, anomaly detection, asset monitoring, and many others.