Hyperlight Nanvix: POSIX support for Hyperlight Micro-VMs
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Hyperlight project delivers faster, more secure, and smaller workload execution to the cloud-native ecosystem.
Microsoft Open Source Blog
How to teach cloud-powered mobile app development to students
Over the past five years, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching a course titled “Cloud-Powered Mobile App Development” ten times at the University of Houston with my long-time friend and faculty colleague Jesus Hernandez.
Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator for Apache Spark
Welcome to Data Accelerator! Data Accelerator for Apache Spark simplifies streaming big data using Spark. Data Accelerator has been used for two years within Microsoft for processing streamed data across many internal deployments handling data volumes at Microsoft scale.
Publishing GitHub Pages from Azure Pipelines
Do you work on or maintain a project for technical users? A key part of attracting users, especially to an open source project, is publishing great documentation. However, keeping it up to date as your APIs and concepts change can be challenging or just time-consuming.
How Honeycomb is empowering all developers to better understand their systems
Honeycomb is a tool for introspecting and interrogating your production systems. It’s a new type of tool, designed to infuse observability across platforms, microservices, serverless apps, and increasingly complex systems, as well as all the way down to individual customers.
How to identify and eliminate secrets sprawl on Azure with HashiCorp Vault
What is a secret In this blog, we will show you how HashiCorp Vault can help you manage and eliminate secrets sprawl in Azure and your broader organization in general. Before we dive into defining what secret sprawl is, however, it’s good to understand what we define as a secret.
Brigade tutorial: Instant scaling on demand with serverless Kubernetes
Microservices built on Kubernetes are fast becoming one of the core scenarios where computing is done, and Kubernetes development and operations skills are therefore becoming a larger part of any cloud-native toolset.
Trill 101: how to add temporal queries to your applications
Last December, we released Trill, an open source .NET library designed to process one trillion events a day. Trill provides a temporal query language enabling you to embed real-time analytics in your own application. In this blog post, we spend some time introducing how to get started using Trill.
Announcing Brigade 1.0: Build a new kind of distributed application
Brendan Burns, one of the creators of Kubernetes (and the head of Azure Container Computing at Microsoft) often quips that, “Distributed computing is the new CS 101.” Instead of being considered an advanced topic in computer science, distributed computing is now a core requirement.
Windows containers now supported in Kubernetes
With the release of Kubernetes v1.14 today, Windows Server node support has officially graduated from beta to stable! This support enables developers and operators with Windows Server based applications to containerize them and benefit not only from the power of Kubernetes, but also the robust ecosystem surrounding it.
What’s new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.23.0
There is a new release of the AzureRM provider fresh off of the presses. Version 1.23 has lots of new resources and data sources. If you want to get into the nitty-gritty details of the release, check out the Change Log for the provider within the GitHub repo.
JUnit 5 adopts Azure Pipelines
Prior to March 2019 we, the JUnit team, used various continuous integration (CI) services to perform CI checks, from a self-managed Jenkins instance on CloudBees to a Travis CI and AppVeyor setup.
What I learned in a year of Postgres – with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
It’s our birthday! Azure Database for PostgreSQL became generally available exactly a year ago. From public preview to today, we’ve gone from mostly getting the “Postgres + Microsoft???” question to it not being as much of a surprise anymore.
Scaling a WordPress application using Rook on Azure Kubernetes Service
WordPress is a popular free and open source content management system based on PHP and MySQL. One of the major benefits of using cloud computing is having the ability to better support your application by scaling based on user traffic.