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Alaska Airlines makes shopping easier with Azure and microservices

A great online shopping experience begins with great software, and Alaska Airlines is using microservices, Microsoft Azure, and Windows Server Containers with Docker to launch new e-commerce features faster—in minutes versus days. Travelers get new offers sooner, which in turn translates to happier customers and higher revenues. By running its e-commerce engine in Azure in hybrid fashion, Alaska can also scale more easily and cost-effectively, ensuring its sites run at the optimum point of performance and cost.

Get started with Azure for .NET developers

Azure MVP Barry Luijbregts stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how .NET developers can easily get started with Azure. They talk about the free e-book: Getting started with Azure for .NET developers and they discuss and show some of the awesome tools that can help you get started with Azure today.For more information:Get the free e-book: Getting started with Azure for .NET developersSelecting Workloads in Visual Studio 2017Azure SDKs download pageAzure Friday about Snapshot Debugger with Application InsightsCreate a Free Account (Azure)

Deploy Bitnami Node.js HA Cluster with Azure Cosmos DB

Rick Spencer joins Donovan to chat about deploying Bitnami Node.js High Availability with Azure Cosmos DB, a free listing in Azure Marketplace that uses ARM to automatically spin up a three-node Node.js cluster behind a load balancer with a shared file system and Azure Cosmos DB integration. See how you can quickly get a sample MEAN app from GitHub to a highly available production environment in the Azure cloud, with very little configuration or sysadmin knowledge required.For more information, see:Bitnami Node.js For Microsoft Azure Multi-Tier Solutions (docs)Bitnami Node.js High-Availability Cluster (Azure Marketplace)Bitnami sample MEAN application (GitHub)Create a Free Account (Azure)

• Azure Cosmos DB
• Load Balancer
• Marketplace
• Virtual Machines

Microsoft Build 2018

May 7-9 | Seattle, WA Microsoft Build 2018 is happening and it has a new look! Learn more now: https://aka.ms/MicrosoftBuild2018

Meet the most demanding HPC customer needs on Azure with Cycle Computing and Azure Batch

Run engineering, research, and scientific workloads on Microsoft Azure with extreme high performance and at hyperscale. Deep dive into Azure Batch for simplified orchestration of massive jobs while leveraging the lowest price compute on Azure. We also examine building HPC clusters by using scale sets and Azure Resource Manager templates and demonstrate partner solutions in the space.

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Building a Hollywood blockbuster by using Microsoft Azure Batch rendering

Azure Batch now invites artists, designers, and engineers to easily build and design advanced projects on Microsoft Azure through its rendering offering and in partnership with Autodesk. See how Azure Batch orchestrates and scales pre-bundled rendering tasks to produce the next generation of visual effects. Use the Azure Batch highly available and scalable service to render the final outputs, such as photorealistic renders. You pay for compute resources and software on an on-demand basis and can take advantage of new low-cost compute options.

• Batch