Microsoft Open Source Blog

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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.

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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.

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Open Source Weekly: new Ansible on Azure improvements and more 

For fans of Ansible’s automation capabilities, the Azure team announced significant improvements to the Ansible on Azure experience, including a new VS Code extension. Learn more about what’s new with Ansible on Azure, plus new docs, demos, and more, in this edition of the Open Source Weekly.

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Applying compliance frameworks with Chef InSpec on Azure Government 

In government, compliance and security are critical components of our job function. The current state of compliance frameworks are bulky and unwieldy for those inexperienced with OpenSCAP/XML. The Microsoft Azure Government cloud and Chef InSpec are designed to provide a common language for security, compliance, and automation teams to converge around.

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OpenAI masters scale with Kubernetes on Azure 

OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) and ensure AGI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. As a non-profit AI research company, they focus on long-term research, working on problems that require fundamental advances in AI capabilities.