End of Life for Azure Notebooks

#1

Post by SiggyF » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 12:30 PM UTC

End of Life for Azure Notebooks
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Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

#2

Post by vikramkr » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 12:53 PM UTC

Is this EOL for just the "preview" or for the whole thing?

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

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Post by Avalaxy » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 12:54 PM UTC

> The Azure Notebooks preview is ending on October 9th, 2020

Apparently they already shut down 2 weeks ago.

Any word on what's replacing it? Azure Machine Learning notebooks?

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

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Post by drej » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

vikramkr wrote: post #2

Is this EOL for just the "preview" or for the whole thing?

"On January 15th, 2021 the Azure Notebooks public preview site will be retired and replaced with integrated services from Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub. Learn about your options and Microsoft's other notebook experiences at https://notebooks.azure.com/Content/alternatives.html."

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

#5

Post by tomrod » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 1:05 PM UTC

Darn. I literally just tried these out and liked it okay. Some random UX issues but nothing deal breaking.

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

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Post by syntaxing » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 1:23 PM UTC

The beginning of the end of all these free notebook services scare me. I haven't found any good alternative to Google Colab that allows private notebooks.

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

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Post by em500 » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 1:24 PM UTC

drej wrote: post #4

vikramkr wrote: post #2

Is this EOL for just the "preview" or for the whole thing?

"On January 15th, 2021 the Azure Notebooks public preview site will be retired and replaced with integrated services from Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub. Learn about your options and Microsoft's other notebook experiences at https://notebooks.azure.com/Content/alternatives.html ."

They forgot https://colab.research.google.com/. :). But then again, it's a Google service with a fairly niche audience, so you know the deal...

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

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Post by bryanrasmussen » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

I find an end of life notice on a git repository weird somehow. I guess it's a notice to start forking, really.

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

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Post by sushicalculus » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 1:47 PM UTC

> We deeply value the Azure Notebooks community and all that was created over the past 4 years.

The headline and this sentence seem contradictory

Re: End of Life for Azure Notebooks

#10

Post by vikramkr » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

drej wrote: post #4

vikramkr wrote: post #2

Is this EOL for just the "preview" or for the whole thing?

"On January 15th, 2021 the Azure Notebooks public preview site will be retired and replaced with integrated services from Visual Studio, Azure, and GitHub. Learn about your options and Microsoft's other notebook experiences at https://notebooks.azure.com/Content/alternatives.html ."

So I haven't ever used this service, so I might not be framing the question correctly - but what I guess I mean is: are the alternative integrated services actually the initially intended final form of the product post preview? Or is the project itself just being cancelled and users being pointed to subpar substitutes - like Google with the trusted contacts thing where they killed the feature and pointed to an inferior alternative in maps as a way to placate users.