Internet of things

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

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.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming mainstream. Companies are seeing market-making benefits from IoT and deploying at scale – from transforming operations and logistics, remote monitoring, and predictive maintenance at the edge to new consumer experiences powered by connected devices.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has expanded the world of computing far beyond mobile and PC, bringing a new and ever-growing class of cloud-connected devices that is on track to reach 20 billion devices by 2020.

Catch up on Azure – Preview: Distributed tracing support for IoT Hub; Update to Azure DevOps Projects support for Azure Kubernetes Service; More reliable event-driven applications in Azure with an updated Event Grid; and more.

It’s amazing to look back at everything we’ve learned from our customers since we first released HoloLens.

Azure Functions provides a productive programming model based on triggers and bindings for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications.

Most IoT solutions, including our Azure IoT reference architecture, use several different services. An IoT message, starting from the device, could flow through a dozen or more services before it is stored or visualized.

We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture.

Actuating Mobility in the Enterprise with New Azure Maps Services and SDKs; Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2; Moving your Azure Virtual Machines has never been easier; and more!