Tag: Microsoft Azure

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How to automate your release notes 

  • By Jasmine Greenaway, Jasmine is an NYC-based Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, who has almost too much fun finding interesting ways to use Azure and working on open source with .NET. Her development experience has led her to different development environments and industries, such as in retail with Sears, gaming with Rockstar Games, and prior to Microsoft, .NET developer tooling as a software engineer at GitHub. She also teaches the basics of web development as an adjunct professor at a local college and co-organizes a JavaScript meetup in Brooklyn.

Two facts are generally true for software releases.  One, as users, we wish software releases came with better…

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Announcing Open Service Broker for Azure 1.0 and more community updates 

  • By Sean McKenna, Sean McKenna is a Principal PM in the Azure Cloud Native Compute team where he works on a number of projects related to containers and Kubernetes, including the Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Container Instances, and the Open Service Broker for Azure. A Microsoft veteran, Sean is loving the new culture at the company and enjoys the opportunity to work across the industry to solve real customer problems. He lives in Seattle with his wife and infant son, where he enjoys exploring the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest along with its vibrant microbrew scene.

A few months ago, we announced a preview of the Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA), the simplest…

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Tutorial: Canary Deployment for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

Canary deployment is a pattern that rolls out releases to a subset of users or servers. It deploys…

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Coming soon: more Open Source Show episodes, featuring new community hosts 

  • By Lacey Butler, Lacey focuses on open source community engagement and is the co-producer of The Open Source Show. Her goals: recognize, inspire, and motivate developers far and wide, helping them do amazing things with technology. When she’s not crafting new shows, you’ll likely spot her at the public library searching for new gems or trying every product Trader Joe’s has to offer.

We launched The Open Source Show – featuring our own Suz Hinton, Lena Hall, and Bernd Verst –…