Microsoft Ready 2019

Last week, Microsoft had their Microsoft Inspire and Microsoft Ready events in Las Vegas.

High light of the event, was demonstration by keynote speaker Microsoft Corporate VP Julia White. It was about a new HoloLens technology developed in collaboration with Azure AI services that produces a full-size hologram of an individual speaking another language.

Her voice was sampled using Azure’s AI tech which converted it to Japanese using Neural-Text-to-Speech; this allowed the Japanese version of her presentation to retain her vocal tone and delivery style.

Demo Video reference is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auJJrHgG9Mc

It is a follow-up technology revealed by Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, during the core-note session at T-mobile arena on 17 Jul'19. Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_KxHhAIUXc

Happy Technology Innovation from Microsoft !!

DotNet Caching

Whilst working on Caching algorithm for my research program, came across a good .NET Caching reference at http://underscorehao.net/2019/07/auto-refreshing-cache-in-dotnet/.

This article however will deal with a very specific caching problem. How can you implement a cache that is refreshing itself after a specific amount of time with the following characteristics:

• Thread safety
• Not getting any cache misses (even if that means we’re returning stale data)

If that’s what you need, keep on reading

Gartner IaaS

For the ninth consecutive year, AWS has secured the top-right corner of the Leader’s quadrant in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), earning highest placement for Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision:

The full report contains a lot of detail and is a great summary of the features and factors. Ref: https://pages.awscloud.com/Gartner-Magic-Quadrant-for-Infrastructure-as-a-Service-Worldwide.html

IBM redhat

IBM and Red Hat announced today that they have closed the transaction under which IBM acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in cash, representing a total equity value of approximately $34 billion.

This deal accelerates IBM’s high-value business model, making IBM the #1 hybrid cloud provider in an emerging $1 trillion growth market.  Red Hat to operate as a distinct unit within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux alone is expected to contribute to more than $10 trillion worth of global business revenues in 2019. By 2023, an additional 640,000 people are expected to work in Red Hat-related jobs.

Together, IBM and Red Hat will accelerate innovation by offering a next-generation hybrid multicloud platform. Based on open source technologies, such as Linux and Kubernetes, the platform will allow businesses to securely deploy, run and manage data and applications on-premises and on private and multiple public clouds.

Mentorship

Good article to read over the weekend; dedicated to all Mentors.

Ref: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mentor-ship-ganesan-senthilvel/

Every great achiever is inspired by great mentor

Xamarin.Essentials

Xamarin.Essentials provides developers with cross-platform APIs for their mobile applications.

Android, iOS, and UWP offer unique operating system and platform APIs that developers have access to all in C# leveraging Xamarin. Xamarin.Essentials provides a single cross-platform API that works with any Xamarin.Forms, Android, iOS, or UWP application that can be accessed from shared code no matter how the user interface is created.

As developer, we can kick start with Xamarin.Essentials from Microsoft reference at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/essentials/get-started?tabs=windows%2Candroid