Tag: TechNet UK

The Top 10 TechNet UK Articles of 2019! 

We may be a few days into the new year, but there's still one more thing we need to do before saying goodbye to 2019 - check out the top ten articles of the year! A massive thank you to our guest writers and contributors for providing these articles, and we hope to work with writers new and old in 2020 to create even more great content for everyone at TechNet UK.

What is the Azure Stack, and how does it work? 

Ed Baker takes a look at the Azure Stack, including a detailed look at what options are available, how to deploy the Azure Stack Development Kit, and why you might want to use them.

Introduction to the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Dev Spaces 

Want to learn how to set-up the Azure Kubernetes Service and Dev Spaces? Luckily we have Richard Conway, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and Co-founder of the UK Azure User Group on hand to show us how!

Building JARS and dependencies for a Scala-based Maven project from a GitHub branch 

This blog provides a “how to” guide for generating JAR files for Scala projects maintained in GitHub, which may be useful in scenarios where a user needs to take a fix to a project whose dependencies are coordinated in Maven, but where a recent fix might only be available in GitHub.

Getting more of what you need from Upgrade Readiness 

Ed Shepley returns with a follow up to his popular upgrade readiness article, looking at even more tips on how we can use Upgrade Readiness to identify users that are ready for Windows 10 piloting.

How to integrate Microsoft Cognitive Services with C# in less than 60 minutes 

Jamie Maguire documents the key steps and patterns you can follow to easily implement Cognitive Services within your existing stack.

Microsoft Ignite The Tour comes to London! 

Join us for deep technical training – free in London!

Going serverless? Here are 9 tips for operations success 

At London’s Imperial College, Serverless Days 2019 saw a community of serverless developers and engineers discuss ways they can create and maintain secure, observable, high-performance serverless systems.

Using Containers to run R/Shiny workloads in Azure: Part 4 

In the parts one, two and three of this series, I described how to build containers using Dockerfiles, then how to share and access them from Azure. In this part, we’ll move briefly away from Python to look at R together with Shiny as a dynamic reporting and visualisation capability pulling data from a Postgres database.

Using state-of-the-art technology for state-of-the-art customer experiences 

Competition can be tough, and companies need to provide smarter interactions with customers to survive. As a result, we’ve seen a trend over the last couple of years indicating that more businesses are assigning larger budgets for projects that help deliver next-generation communications.