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March 21, 2019

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JUnit 5 adopts Azure Pipelines

By Christian Stein, JUnit 5 Team

Prior to March 2019 we, the JUnit team, used various continuous integration (CI) services to perform CI checks,…

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March 20, 2019

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4 min read

What I learned in a year of Postgres – with Azure Database for PostgreSQL

By Rachel Agyemang, Program Manager, Microsoft Azure

It’s our birthday! Azure Database for PostgreSQL became generally available exactly a year ago. From public preview to…

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March 12, 2019

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3 min read

Microsoft open sources Accessibility Insights

By Keith Ballinger, GM, Developer Services

Today we’re announcing the open sourcing of Accessibility Insights for Windows and Accessibility Insights for Web, a set…

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March 12, 2019

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Now Available: Bitbucket Pipes for Azure

By David McGhee, Principal Program Manager

Bitbucket Cloud customers can now plumb their Bitbucket Pipelines to Azure, automatically building, testing and deploying their code,…

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February 6, 2019

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1 min read

Microsoft joins the OpenChain community to help drive open source compliance

By David Rudin, Assistant General Counsel

A lot goes into making open source great – from licenses to code to community. A key part…

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January 17, 2019

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3 min read

Improved discovery experience for Microsoft containers on Docker Hub

By Rohit Tatachar, Program Manager, Container Registry

Continuing with our approach to delivering a consistent and trustworthy acquisition experience for Microsoft container images, we are…

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December 17, 2018

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1 min read

Microsoft open sources Trill, a powerful query processor for analytics at incredible speeds

By James Terwilliger, Principal Software Engineer

In today’s demanding business environment, processing massive amounts of data each millisecond is becoming a common business requirement.…

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December 13, 2018

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Introducing AMBROSIA: a new platform for reliable distributed applications without all the hassle

By Jonathan Goldstein, Principal Researcher

Building reliable and performant distributed programs that span cloud machines and devices is a challenging endeavor, but one…

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December 11, 2018

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Phippy and friends join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

By Karen Chu, Karen Chu is a Community Manager at Azure, with a focus on Azure Container Services (AKS) and open source container-native developer tools, such as Helm, Draft, and Brigade. When she's not helping connect dots in the community, you can find her traveling and pursuing photography.

We’re so excited to share that Phippy is headed to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)! Microsoft has…

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December 11, 2018

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4 min read

Achieve workload compliance and scale-to-zero with new Kubernetes open source projects

By Ria Bhatia
Lachlan Evenson

Over the past year or so the Azure upstream open source team has been investing heavily in making…

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December 4, 2018

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Introducing CNAB: a cloud-agnostic format for packaging and running distributed applications

By Matt Butcher, Principal Software Engineer

“The day of the distributed app is near.” That is the mantra we’ve been repeating for years. But…

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August 23, 2018

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4 min read

DevOps trends and tips from our resident pros

By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

TechBeacon recently released the DevOps Top 100 list, recognizing members the DevOps community, who are exceptional writers, speakers,…