Microsoft Open Source Blog

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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.

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Packing a Kubernetes Microservices App with Helm on Azure Container Service 

In this blog post, I’ll show how we packed our Kubernetes microservices app with Helm, running on Azure Container Service, and made them easy to reproduce in various environments. Shipping microservices as a single piece of block At RisingStack we use Kubernetes with tens of microservices to provide our Node.

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Connect with Microsoft at OSCON 2017 

Some of the 3,000 open source contributors from across Microsoft are at OSCON this week, to focus on how the open source ecosystem is playing a major role in technology innovation, from artificial intelligence and IoT to microservices and containers.

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Microsoft R Server 9.1 now available 

During yesterday’s Data Amp event, Microsoft announced the new Microsoft R Server 9.1, which is available now. In addition to several advanced machine learning algorithms from Microsoft, R Server 9.1 introduces pre-trained neural network models for sentiment analysis and mage featurization and supports SparklyR, SparkETL, and SparkSQL.

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Azure HDInsight 3.6, now generally available 

This week at the DataWorks Summit, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6, backed by Microsoft’s enterprise-grade SLA. HDInsight 3.6 brings updates to various open source components in the Apache Hadoop and Spark ecosystem to the cloud, allowing customers to deploy them easily and run them reliably on an enterprise-grade platform. “HDInsight 3.