Microsoft Open Source Blog

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Open Source Weekly #1 

This is our first edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft. This will be far from an exhaustive list of everything open source going on around the company.

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Open source sessions at Microsoft Ignite 

Last week in Orlando, Microsoft welcomed more than 25,000 people to Microsoft Ignite, where we showcased how we’re infusing cloud, AI and mixed reality across Microsoft’s technologies. Throughout the event, open source technologies took center stage, playing a big part in making this happen.

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Microsoft joins the Open Source Initiative 

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft has joined the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as a Premium sponsor. OSI is a global non-profit dedicated to promoting and protecting open source software through education, collaboration, and infrastructure. Open source advances come from its community and Microsoft continues to increase its involvement and contributions.

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Free webinar series by Microsoft + Hortonworks 

Microsoft and Hortonworks are working together to bring you a series of free webinars on the 20th of September, 10th of October, and the 14th of November 2017. Read on to learn more about the webinars and to find out how to register.

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Industry leader creates a dynamic showcase for digital transformation 

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization. TCS has a talented network of more than 387,000 employees in 45 countries and annual revenue of US$17.58 billion in 2017. Dedicated to creating innovative solutions for customers worldwide, TCS developed a new company website that reflects its dynamic vision.

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Securing Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub on Microsoft Azure 

Microsoft has partnered with Cloudera to bring you this exciting new free webinar – Securing Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub on Microsoft Azure. It will be held on the 23rd of August 2017, Wednesday, 9:00am IST / 11:30am SGT / 1:30pm AEST.

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Node.js performance monitoring with Prometheus 

This article helps you to understand what to monitor if you have a Node.js application in production, and how to use Prometheus – an open source solution, which provides powerful data compressions and fast data querying for time series data – for Node.js monitoring. If you want to learn more about Node.

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Connect with Microsoft at the Node Summit 

We’re in San Francisco this week for Node Summit, the largest conference focused exclusively on Node.js and “The Ecosystem of Node.” From Day Zero workshops to sessions on the rapidly evolving Node community, there are several ways to connect with some of our resident Node pros at the event.

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Highlights from Microsoft Open Days 2017 across Asia Pacific 

Microsoft’s Open Source team organized a series of events across Asia Pacific last month (May 2017), which were aimed at sharing their cloud vision and support for running open source solutions on Azure. These open source roadshows attracted 1,500 registrations and over 800 attendees.

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Join us for Microsoft Azure OpenDev 

Azure OpenDev is the first-ever virtual event from Microsoft that showcases open source technologies in the cloud. Hosted by John Gossman, Lead Architect, Microsoft Azure, the event features industry thought leaders, including Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical and speakers from Docker, Pivotal, Red Hat, and Chef, as well as Microsoft teams dedicated to open source.