2018 - Page 2 of 3 - ElegantCode

16 May

2018

Microsoft’s New Direction on Display at //build/ 2018

By: David Starr Category:Microsoft

Microsoft’s @Satya Nadella has made it clear Microsoft is transforming itself into a cloud, Machine Learning, and AI company. This change was on full display at Microsoft’s annual recent //build/ 2018 event, held for developers and technology leaders. The 3 days were packed with sessions on Microsoft’s cloud offering, Azure, and the services it offers. […]

9 May

2018

Data, data, data. //build/ Day 3

By: David Starr Category:Azure

So many of us think of Azure as a great storage platform, and it is. With many offerings tailored to meet your specific needs. Even so, there are also many offerings that go beyond storage and can completely revamp your ELT/ETL scenarios. There are several technologies mentioned here that aim to help developers do what Microsoft […]

8 May

2018

//build/ 2018 – Day 2

By: David Starr Category:Azure

Today I am attending Day 2 of //build/ 2018 and plan to just give a quick summary of each session I attend today. Let’s see if I can keep it manageable . I’ve designed my day around Azure, where amazing things are happening enabling scenarios I could never have imagined I’d be working with until […]

7 May

2018

Build 2018 Keynote

By: David Starr Category:Azure

One of the great things about working at Microsoft is getting a chance to attend Build 2018 over the next 3 days. Thanks to my team, Industry Experiences, for the opportunity. I’m the new guy still learning about AI, Machine Learning, after all. With all the announcements on the Azure blog today, there is little […]

7 May

2018

Build Conference Report – AI and Cognitive Services

By: David Starr Category:Azure1 Comment

I am at build 2018. On the stage right now, I am watching a deaf man speak in English with a man who is speaking Chinese. They are using the same app and that is just cool I don’t care who you are. 1 million developers are using cognitive services. Why? Because it isn’t just […]

26 Apr

2018

Architecting Azure

By: David Starr Category:Azure

I recently rejoined Microsoft, this time as an architect on the Industry Experiences team. Our charter is to help companies implement solutions on Azure. We work with specific industry verticals like manufacturing (IoT), healthcare, insurance, financial services, etc. We provide several services including writing very specific industry use cases of Azure within the industries and […]

6 Mar

2018

CRUD Operations Using Azure Cosmos DB

By: David Starr Category:Code3 Comments

When I am learning something new, I start from the genuine basics and build up from there. Azure Cosmos DB is no different and as someone just starting out with Azure, I thought it best to start with one of the most fundamental of services: CRUD operations on data. Admittedly, I may write bad code along […]

6 Feb

2018

The Long Distance Product Owner

By: David Starr Category:AgileTag: Agile, collaboration, Scrum:

I’m often asked questions I decide to answer on my blog. After all, if one person has the question, so do others. Here is the question we’re answering today. How can we make it work when the Product Owner and Development Team are 12 time zones apart? Answers People Don’t Like Well, there are a few […]