Conversational - AI updates December 2018

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We are thrilled to present the release of Bot Framework SDK version 4.2 and we want to use this opportunity to provide additional updates on Conversational-AI releases from Microsoft. In the SDK 4.2 release, the team focused on enhancing monitoring, telemetry, and analytics capabilities of the SDK by...

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Best practices for queries used in log alert rules

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Queries can start with a table name like SecurityEvent and Perf, or with “search” and “union” operators that can provide a multi-table/multi-column search experience. These operators are useful during data exploration and for searching terms in the entire data model. However, these operators are not efficient for productization...

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Fine-tune natural language processing models using Azure Machine Learning service

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In the natural language processing (NLP) domain, pre-trained language representations have traditionally been a key topic for a few important use cases, such as named entity recognition (Sang and Meulder, 2003), question answering (Rajpurkar et al., 2016), and syntactic parsing (McClosky et al., 2010). The intuition for utilizing...

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Extracting insights from IoT data using the cold path data flow

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This blog continues our coverage of the solution guide published by Microsoft’s Industry Experiences team. The guide covers the following components: ◈ Ingesting data ◈ Hot path processing ◈ Cold path processing ◈ Analytics clients We already covered the recommendation for processing data for an IoT application in...

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Streamlined IoT device certification with Azure IoT certification service

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For over three years, we have helped customers find devices that work with Azure IoT technology through the Azure Certified for IoT program and the Azure IoT device catalog. In that time, our ecosystem has grown to one of the largest in the industry with more than 1,000...

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Taking a closer look at Python support for Azure Functions

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Azure Functions provides a powerful programming model for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. Ever since we announced the general availability of the Azure Functions 2.0 runtime, support for Python has been one of our top requests. At Microsoft Connect() last week, we announced the public...

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Deploying Apache Airflow in Azure to build and run data pipelines

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Apache Airflow is an open source platform used to author, schedule, and monitor workflows. Airflow overcomes some of the limitations of the cron utility by providing an extensible framework that includes operators, programmable interface to author jobs, scalable distributed architecture, and rich tracking and monitoring capabilities. Since its...

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