Kubernetes Nodepools Explained
Introduction This article will explain and show the use cases for using Nodepools in Kubernetes: What are nodepools ? What are System and User nodepools ? How to schedule application pods on a specific nodepool using Labels and nodeSelector ? ... continue reading
Understanding Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine sizes
Having an on-premises infrastructure background, I’m used to scoping hardware by defining the specifications (CPU, memory etc) we’ll need to run the applications and expected concurrent users and allowing for some growth. Then we’d often buy a box that would ... continue reading
Customize Windows Sandbox
In this blog post, I will show you how you can set up, configure and customize Windows Sandbox in Windows 10 using advanced Windows Sandbox config files. Windows Sandbox is based on Hyper-V technology and allows you to spin up ... continue reading

Defending against cryptojacking with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and Intel TDT
Cryptocurrency mining—once considered no more than a nuisance, a relatively benign activity that was a drain on machine resources—has been on the rise in recent years. This increase in cryptocurrency mining activity is driven by the increasing value of cryptocurrencies ... continue reading

Azure Machine Learning—what’s new from Build 2020
Machine learning (ML) is gaining momentum across a number of industries and scenarios as enterprises look to drive innovation, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning empowers developers and data scientists with enterprise-grade capabilities to accelerate the ML ... continue reading
Az Update: Azure Dedicated Host News, Azure Stack Edge with GPU and govern your hybrid servers
With all the changes in Azure, it is sometimes hard to keep track, that's why I thought I would give you a quick update on two exciting things I learned this week. In this update, I want to share a ... continue reading

Power your Azure GPU workstations with flexible GPU partitioning
Today we're sharing the general availability of NVv4 virtual machines in South Central US, East US, and West Europe regions, with additional regions planned in the coming months. With NVv4, Azure is the first public cloud to offer GPU partitioning ... continue reading

Burst 4K encoding on Azure Kubernetes Service
Burst encoding in the cloud with Azure and Media Excel HERO platform. Content creation has never been as in demand as it is today. Both professional and user-generated content has increased exponentially over the past years. This puts a lot ... continue reading
TensorFlow 2.0 on Azure: Fine-tuning BERT for question tagging
This post is co-authored by Abe Omorogbe, Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning, and John Wu, Program Manager, Azure Machine Learning Congratulations to the TensorFlow community on the release of TensorFlow 2.0! In this blog, we aim to highlight some of ... continue reading

Automated machine learning and MLOps with Azure Machine Learning
Azure Machine Learning is the center for all things machine learning on Azure, be it creating new models, deploying models, managing a model repository, or automating the entire CI/CD pipeline for machine learning. We recently made some amazing announcements on ... continue reading