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January 28, 2016 3 min read

Garuda Indonesia: Web sales soar 200% with Microsoft Azure

In the airline business, security is paramount. In 2014, Garuda Indonesia (Garuda), the flag carrier of Indonesia, enhanced the security of its ticketing systems by redeploying its existing, open source e-commerce websites to the Microsoft cloud service, Azure.

March 26, 2016 2 min read

SocialDice: Revolutionizing talent recruitment in the the Middle East

For rapidly-growing, Middle Eastern small- to medium-sized businesses, hiring the best employees is a challenge.

Project updates October 13, 2017 4 min read

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.

Project updates October 20, 2017 3 min read

Open Source Weekly #2

This is our second edition of the Open Source Weekly, a roundup of recent open source related community news, product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft.

Project updates November 3, 2017 2 min read

Open Source Weekly #4

Did you know that docs.microsoft.com is home to thousands of pages of documentation, from A to X (ASP.

Project updates March 24, 2018 3 min read

Open Source Weekly: database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL and more

Check out the below recap of this week’s top open source related product announcements, popular docs, and demos from around Microsoft.

November 27, 2018 1 min read

Attention: MySQL & PostgreSQL Azure Terraform resource users

We want to give a heads-up to Azure customers who are using Terraform to provision and manage MySQL and/or PostgreSQL.

June 21, 2021 3 min read

How to migrate and modernize Linux workloads and open source databases to Azure

With extensive support for all major Linux distributions including Red Hat, SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, and managed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings for open source databases like Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and Azure Database for MariaDB—it’s no surprise that Linux is the fastest growing platform on Azure.

Project updates June 10, 2025 4 min read

Drasi accepted into CNCF sandbox for change-driven solutions

The Azure Incubations team is proud to share that Drasi has officially been accepted into the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox.

Tutorials and demos April 9 6 min read

How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs

How Microsoft uses AI agents and Drasi to keep open‑source documentation accurate and working.