Nov 15, 2017. New York City. Today, at the Microsoft Connect() event in New York City, in a keynote Microsoft EVP Scott Guthrie showcased many products and services that emphasizes Microsoft’s intelligent cloud and its offerings.
“It’s never been a better time than today to be a software developer” - @ScottGu
The event was kicked off by launching a video of Stephen Hawking talking about how computing power is growing each day and quantum computing is starting to become a next computing phenomenon.
Here is a list of key points from the keynote:
Any developer, any app, any platform
Visual Studio Live Share Support enables you to not only code together but also debug and support that works across Windows, Linux, and Mac
Demo of live debug on an iOS device using Xamarin Live player
.NET Embedding in iOS and Android allows share native code base with XAML
XAML Standard allows you to build consistent UI
Announced Visual Studio App Center
Microservices + containers
Azure Container Services
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) in Visual Studio
DevOps in Azure using VSTS
Visual Studio and Windows team use VSTS. Over 25,000 Windows team engineers use VSTS.
SQL Server 2017 runs on Windows server, Linux, and Docker
SQL Operations Studio announced works on Windows, Linux, and Mac
Azure Data Migration Services in public preview
Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Azure Database for MySQL
Azure Database for MariaDB announced
Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB Announced
Microsoft joins MariaDB foundation as a platinum sponsor
Azure Databricks announced