Tag: Apache

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Celebrating OSCON’s 20th anniversary 

  • By Ken Thompson, Focused on Open Source Software, Azure Resource Manager and DevOps on Azure, I'm responsible for helping customers succeed with DevOps on the Azure cloud, using the tools and practices they know and love. I work with communities and partners to better integrate solutions on Azure that involve third-party DevOps tools such as (but not limited to) Ansible, Chef, Docker, Eclipse, Gitlab, Jenkins, Packer, Spinnaker, and Terraform.

We’re in Portland this week for OSCON’s return to the City of Roses (or Beervana, depending on who…

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How to process streams of data with Apache Kafka and Spark 

  • By Lena Hall, Alena is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working on Azure, where she focuses on big data and large-scale distributed systems. Previously, she's worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft Research. Alena has more than 10 years of experience in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed cloud programming, real-time system architecture, high load and performance, big data analysis, functional programming, and machine learning. She is an elected member of the F# Software Foundation’s Board of Trustees and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and Information Technology.

Data is produced every second, it comes from millions of sources and is constantly growing. Have you ever…

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Microsoft at OSCON 2016 

  • By Mark Hill, Mark Hill is the Vice President for Open Source Sales and Marketing at Microsoft and responsible for growing the Microsoft business around the open source ecosystem globally and helping customers and partners derive value from a combination of Microsoft and open source technologies.

A planeload of open source enthusiasts from across Microsoft are joining the more than 4,200 participants at OSCON…