“Needle in a haystack” is one of the most commonly used phrases in discussions about Big Data. It’s a big messy job, all the more frustrating, because with a vast data lake, you know the answer is ...

In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so, we’ve ...

Microsoft updated its extension for tying its lightweight Visual Studio Code editor into the Azure cloud for serverless, SQL-based Big Data analytics. Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code ...

In late fall 2007, Microsoft outlined its plans and goals for Oslo software-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and strategy, hinting at the same time that it had a new modeling language in the ...