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.
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New "Designing Distributed Systems" O'Reilly e-book, available for free download
Without established design patterns to guide them, developers have had to build distributed systems from scratch, and most of these systems are very unique. Today, the increasing use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable containerized components.
Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more
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Microsoft joins effort to help advance open source licensing
Today Microsoft is pleased to join RedHat, Facebook, Google, IBM, CA Technologies, Cisco, HPE, SAP, and SUSE, to announce that it is making an open source license commitment designed to help licensees overcome common mistakes in using open source software.
Open Source Weekly: Azure Service Fabric goes open source, new Open Source Show, and more
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Microsoft at SCaLE 16x
The team is proud to support the sixteenth annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 16x) at the Pasadena Convention Center, California this week. The community-run, free and open source software event is the largest of its kind in North America.
Join OSI and Microsoft in the new ClearlyDefined project
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) today announced its incubator project, ClearlyDefined. ClearlyDefined is focused on crowd-sourcing critical licensing and security data for open source projects. Why is this important? For starters, increasing clarity around a project makes it easier to build a community and gain contributors. It also increases consumer’s confidence in open source.
What we learned at the first Helm Summit
What a great inaugural Helm Summit! This was a momentous occasion for the community. What started as a hackathon project just under three years ago now is having its own community-driven summit. We had close to 200 people gather in an uncharacteristically snowy and cold Portland, Oregon talking about all things Helm.
How startup Beco built its IoT cloud on Azure
Beco, a Boston-based startup, is changing the way commercial real estate is managed, all while making the experience of living and working in a commercially managed property a lot more convenient and fun. And they are doing it with the help of Microsoft Azure and Portworx, the cloud native storage layer designed for containerized workloads.
Five things about TypeScript
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. It’s a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript and was originally created out of a need for a more robust tooling experience to complement JavaScript language developers.
Now on GitHub: The Autonomous Driving Cookbook from Microsoft
At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. That’s why I’m happy to present the Autonomous Driving Cookbook which is now available on GitHub.
Open Source Weekly: VS Code included in Anaconda, TypeScript 2.7 available
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Ready, Set, Go lang: Brian Ketelsen explains Go’s fast growing popularity
Since its creation in 2009, the Go programming language has seen a growing global fan base of developers looking for a lightweight, open source language well-suited for today’s microservices architectures.
Introducing Brady: our resident ninja sloth finds a home on GitHub
Brady is the super fierce mascot for open source solutions running on Microsoft Azure and we’re proud to share that, in true open source spirit, Brady’s designs are available on GitHub for everyone to remix and customize for their favorite technologies.