We finally sit down with Neeraj Joshi to talk about the Ignite 2018 announcements including Ultra SSDs, digital twins, Azure Sphere, and more. Windows Kernel internals. And GitHub actions.  

News

• Introducing the Windows Internals Series: One Windows Kernel
  • One Windows Kernel
• Introducing GitHub Actions
  • GitHub Actions

Neeraj Joshi

Neeraj is a random awesome dude at Microsoft!

Check out Neeraj at [email protected] -- the original social network

Ignite 2018

Check out the Ignite 2018 News Guide for more tech topics.

• Data
  • Azure Data Box
    • Edge
    • Heavy - 1 petabyte of storage capacity
    • Gateway - IoT Edge integrated
  • SQL Server 2019
    • built-in Spark and Hadoop distributed file system
  • Azure Data Explorer
  • CosmosDB
    • Multi-master
    • Cassandra API
    • Reserved Capacity
  • SQL Managed instance
• IoT
  • Digital twins public preview
  • Edge has public module marketplace
  • Azure Sphere dev kits available
• Azure & Windows
  • Windows Server 2019 GA Oct
  • Ultra SSD
    • Up to 64TB size
    • Up to 160k IOPs
  • Premium files (SSD)
  • Front Door Service
    • Understands http and can help with routing
  • ExpressRoute Direct
    • 100gbps
  • Azure Blueprints
    • Managing and assigning deployment templates?
    • Versioning
    • Part of Azure Governance
  • Functions V2
  • Quantum to add chemical simulation
  • Windows Virtual Desktop
  • Microsoft Learn
• Azure Stack
  • Kubernetes on Stack
• Security
  • Going Password free
• Other
  • Stream mobile app with offline viewing
  • OneDrive "Files on demand" for Mac

Dev Tip of the Week

From Steve Smith @ardalis on Twitter

Add sound effects to Visual Studio Build fail and success from the Sound Control Panel. Also Breakpoint Hit and Build Canceled!