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When Alex Garland’s series Devs (on FX and Hulu) came out this year, it gave developers their own sexy Hollywood workup. Who knew
that coders could get snarled into murder plots and love triangles just for designing machine learning programs? Or that their software
would cause a philosophical crisis? Sure, the average day of a developer is more code writing than murder but what a thrill to author
powerful new program.
Machine learning, big data and AI advancements seem like a giant leap forward both for technology and human experience. In 2017
CEO’s of major companies told MIT’s Sloan Management Review that AI, machine learning and big data will be the biggest disruptions
(in a good way!) of the future.
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Already the big 3 are revolutionizing industries. For example, Metlife uses these machine learning to improve speech recognition so
doctors can file their patient notes in real time. Medical offices can now transfer information faster to improve decision-making and
care. B2C corporations use it to analyze audiences for engagement and leverage marketing to reduce time and money on intermittent
customers. B2B corporations want to analyze the massive data they collect, so they hire developers to create programs that anticipate
their clients’ needs before anyone sends an order. Imagine how that might have played in the COVID 19 crisis, if manufacturers saw
Google searches or subtle demand spikes for certain products. What if software helped them "identify new local suppliers" so they
could pivot production within hours instead of weeks.
So it may not sound sexy to say that every development towards openness and transcendence in SDKs is transformative, but it is. It’s
why we should celebrate Microsoft’s development vision to ramp up their Azure SQL partnerships and then to integrate Apache Spark
into their .NET offerings.
In November 2019, Microsoft released a new version of SQL Server and made it available for Linux, which open-source developers love,
and don’t show any signs of abandoning. Working with the open-source community is always a step toward computing transcendence,
but also something of a gamble. It offers growth and feedback from developers but also reduces ownership (thus it may affect profit).
Yet when companies like Microsoft choose to transcend, everyone benefits. This time, the improvements in SQL Server 2019, which
dovetailed with Azure Synapse Analytics, laid the foundation for opening up to .NET frameworks. For the time being, it empowers .NET
3.1 but when .NET 5 is released later this year, Microsoft’s capacities will expand further. .NET 5 will be a unified code with new
technology enhancements.
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Considering that twenty years of lines of .NET code could be unified with big data through this move, the evolution of Microsoft’s once
soiled systems are crumbling. This is the opposite of an empire crumbling. Rather it’s a case study in how to build longevity and power
so that one of the leading empires of software can remain powerful in the fast-changing software geography. What does this mean for
.NET based software systems? First, big data analysis, with the power to stream data and enhance machine learning cannot be ignored.
We live in a data-driven, data-science culture. Data science improves every enterprise. The integration of Apache Spark with .NET makes
it pop. ZDNet reports that it “seems to be more than just a bundling of the open-source big data analytics framework.” It’s a “true”
integration.
In Microsoft’s blog, Brigit Murtaugh provides several examples of how the new API’s will make for cleaner code and more efficient
programs. But that’s not all that Microsoft has done to make Spark.NET accessible to coders. Andrew Brust, developer and writer for
ZDNet, gives a solid run-down of all the ways that Microsoft makes it easy for developers to fire up Spark.NET. First, Microsoft provides
robust onboarding guidance. Framework installation support leads to the creation of a sample application and running it. It guides
developers through the required dependencies to install, the configuration steps for the framework, then the installation of Spark.NET,
including the creation and execution of the Spark sample application. This is a ten- minute process. Developers who prefer to work in
Visual Studio can access Spark.NET as well.
What’s not to love? No one was murdered in the making of this union. I’m sure there’s healthy jealousy about which language and
framework is best, but I cannot prove any love triangles have estranged actual humans. While .NET’s integration with Apache Spark may
not solve the philosophical conundrum of determinism, it does move forward functions and capacities that transform a multitude of
industries. With thousands of .NET code, now those programs can leverage the efficiency and power of big data to make transcendental
changes to the industry.
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Hubs: .NET, Microsoft SQL Server, Apache, Microsoft Azure, Machine learning
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