Microsoft Build May 2021

The Microsoft Build conference is running 25-27 May 2021. It is the digital event to expand your skills. The aim is to innovate for the challenges of tomorrow.

Satya Nadella talked again about how the world will be transformed through tech intensity and the importance of the environment. Microsoft aim to be the platform for platform creators and are releasing 100+ new updates during Build. The next generation of apps will be proactive rather than reactive.  We are at a pivotal time, multi cloud, multi edge, people centred which enables us to address opportunities to empower us and empower the world. It was another inspiring keynote.

There was a raft of announcements of new technology and enhancements to applications.

The general availability of Azure Cosmos DB Serverless was announced along with other Azure Cosmos DB enhancements.

 

Azure SQL ledger capability adds tamper-evident capabilities to Azure SQL Databases, available in Preview. Azure SQL Ledger is for sensitive systems enabling rich analytics and is enterprise ready.

Pytorch Enterprise is on Azure 

Azure Database for PostgreSQL has various features

Azure Purview now supports Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL as a source for metadata, classification and lineage extraction

You can read about all the announcements in Harness the power of data and AI in your applications with Azure

Power BI has announced various features which can be read here Posts categorized: Announcements

My favourite announcement is Power BI in Jupyter notebooks . The new package lets you embed Power BI reports, dashboards, dashboard tiles, report visuals or Q&A in Jupyter notebooks easily.

The Microsoft Build 2021 Book of News covers all MS Build announcements. 

Build Book of News 2020

What an amazing inspiring conference, where it is possible to make dreams become reality. The world is changing, reimagine tomorrow.

The Book of News 2020 shares some amazing advances to help shape the world to come.

The Microsoft Build 2020 Book of News is the guide to the key news items that were announced at Build.

Sketch the docs

Great to see an interesting technique shared about visual storytelling. A summary about Sketchnoting and Zines is in the last 15 minutes. There were other sessions are Build

Video: https://aka.ms/msbuild2020-sketchnoting-video
Slides: https://aka.ms/msbuild-sketchnoting-slides
Site: http://sketchthedocs.dev
Blog: http://dev.to/nitya

2020 Build Keynote

The Build Keynote from Satya Nadella was entitled empowering every developer,  on Tuesday 19 May. You can watch it here.

In this time of uncertainty, developers will play a central role in reimaging the world we live in and accelerating our path to recovery. The 3 phases he touched on emergency, recovery and reimaging. Going forward business will need to be able to remote everything at a moments notice, automate everywhere to be agile and simulate anything. The Power Platform, Azure Arc as the first control plane and Teams are enabling the future. Satya left us with a thought provoking statement.

"We are at an inflection point. As developers you have that opportunity, as well as a responsibility, to define what should be rebuilt, what should be reimaged, and what should be left behind." Satya Nadella

We are crossing into a new frontier, anywhere together.

A few of the many interesting announcements follow: 

Microsoft responsible machine learning capabilities build trust in AI systems, developers say

https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/azure-responsible-machine-learning/

Build AI you can trust with responsible ML

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-ai-you-can-trust-with-responsible-ml/

Autoscale is now generally available on AzureCosmosDB, and the launch the public preview of their new serverless model in just a couple of months!

Microsoft Build brings announcements for cloud data, analytics services, and intersection of the two
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-build-brings-announcements-for-cloud-data-analytics-services-and-intersection-of-the-two/
Azure SQL Edge now in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/updates/azure-sql-edge-now-in-preview/

Microsoft announces a new supercomputer and lays out vision for future AI work.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/openai-azure-supercomputer/
It has built one of the top five publicly disclosed supercomputers in the world, making new infrastructure available in Azure to train extremely large artificial intelligence models.

Microsoft Build is coming to your home

Sign up to watch Microsoft Build, a digital event, May 19-20 2020. Microsoft Build delivers a new way to create unique opportunities for us to explore the latest developer trends and tools in a series of detailed, expert-led key segments. This is always an amazing conference that empowers the developer.

Microsoft 365 services and updates

In the MSBuild Keynote a list of updates for Microsoft 365 services was also announced.

MSBulid Announcements

Scott Guthrie listed several announcements ahead of MSBuild
New intelligent cloud and intelligent edge advancements ushering in the next era of computing

The links to the core data platform changes are below:
Azure SQL Database Edge: Enabling intelligent data at the edge

Analytics in Azure remains unmatched with new innovations

Power Query Comes To Azure Data Factory With Wrangling Data Flows

What’s Microsoft’s vision for conversational AI? Computers that understand you - The AI Blog

SQL Database serverless (preview)

A deep dive into what’s new with Azure Cognitive Services

It is possible to watch the MSBuild key note and other featured on-demand sessions. 

Microsoft Build is coming

It is that time of year again and I am looking forward to see what announcements are going to be made at MSBuild 2019. MSBuild explores the latest developer tools and technologies.