Developers

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.

On the Azure IoT Central team, we are constantly talking with our customers to understand how we can continue to provide more value.

Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure Lab Services – your computer labs in the cloud.

You can now extract more insights and unlock new workflows from your images with the latest enhancements to Cognitive Services’ Computer Vision service.

Today, we are delighted to share the release of Azure Backup Instant Restore capability for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Instant Restore helps Azure Backup customers quickly recover VMs from the snapshots stored along with the disks.

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From January 16 to January 31, 2019, 70 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live.

We strive with every service to provide experiences that significantly improve the development experience. We’re always looking for common pain points that everybody building software in the cloud deals with. And once we find those pain points, we build best-of-class software to address the need.

We recently announced Cognitive Services running in Docker containers with an initial set of containers ranging from Computer Vision, Face, Text Analytics, and Language Understanding.

TypeScript is becoming increasingly popular in the JavaScript community. Since Azure Functions runs Node.js, and TypeScript compiles to JavaScript, motivated users already could get TypeScript code up and running in Azure Functions.