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News April 29, 2020 6 min read

How Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) has grown since its announcement

Since the October 2019 announcement of the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), we have seen a tremendous response and the emergence of an engaged Dapr community.

News March 10, 2020 2 min read

Accessibility Insights for Android is here

Today we are announcing the release of Accessibility Insights for Android, a new addition to our family of open source tools that help developers find and fix accessibility issues early in the development process.

News January 20, 2020 2 min read

Announcing Applied Cloud Stories

We are delighted to announce the Applied Cloud Stories initiative by Microsoft! What is Applied Cloud Stories? Do you work with open source? Are you passionate about machine learning or data science? Do you have stories to share about solving scale or data challenges? Are you investing time and effort so that you and your […]

News December 11, 2019 2 min read

W3C Trace Context specification reaches Proposed Recommendation status

Today we announced that the W3C Trace Context specification entered Proposed Recommendation maturity level.

Events October 3, 2019 2 min read

Unboxing new Microsoft Azure solutions at SpringOne Platform 2019

Spring and Java are first-class citizens on Microsoft Azure and our engineering teams have been working really hard for the past few years to make the developer experience for building and running Spring applications on Azure delightful and productive.

Tutorials and demos September 19, 2019 2 min read

A new video series for beginners to learn Python programming

Probably the largest hurdle when learning any new programming language is simply knowing where to get started.

Project updates September 10, 2019 7 min read

Bringing container magic to cloud-native applications

Last year at Microsoft Connect and DockerCon we announced the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification in partnership with Docker, HashiCorp, and Bitnami.

News June 18, 2019 3 min read

Run, operate, and scale modern applications with Redis Enterprise on Microsoft Azure

Today, we rely on our everyday services to be delivered digitally and expect the experience to be instant.

Three people collaborating in an office on laptops

Tutorials and demos June 3, 2019 3 min read

Learning on Twitch

Watch someone live code online…why would I do that? Hopefully I can answer this question for you in today’s post.

Project updates May 23, 2019 1 min read

Announcing OpenTelemetry: the merger of OpenCensus and OpenTracing

I’m excited to announce that OpenTelemetry is now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project.

Tutorials and demos April 18, 2019 11 min read

How to teach cloud-powered mobile app development to students

Over the past five years, I’ve had the pleasure of teaching a course titled “Cloud-Powered Mobile App Development” ten times at the University of Houston with my long-time friend and faculty colleague Jesus Hernandez.

Tutorials and demos April 5, 2019 5 min read

Publishing GitHub Pages from Azure Pipelines

Do you work on or maintain a project for technical users? A key part of attracting users, especially to an open source project, is publishing great documentation.