Topic: Application Development

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Join us for Pre-KubeCon Community Workshops 

  • By Karen Chu, Karen Chu is a Community Manager at Azure, with a focus on Azure Container Services (AKS) and open source container-native developer tools, such as Helm, Draft, and Brigade. When she's not helping connect dots in the community, you can find her traveling and pursuing photography.

Headed into Seattle early for KubeCon North America? Join your open source friends for community workshops at the…

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Tutorial: Terraforming your JAMstack on Azure with Gatsby, Azure Pipelines, and Git 

  • By Elena Neroslavskaya, Elena Neroslavskaya is Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. She is interested in all things open source and cloud, and is always looking for new ways to help and learn from OSS community and do great things on Azure or Cloud Foundry. When she’s not working, she’s usually learning, watching stars or hanging out with her family.

This article will show how to build a blog (or any other static content) using a very popular…

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#Hacktoberfest 2018: Thank you! 

  • By Jeff McAffer, Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, where he and the team are helping to drive the company’s transition to an “open source engagement first” model. He was one of the founders of the Eclipse open source project where he was an active community leader, core contributor, book author, and frequent conference speaker.

It feels like we just announced our participation, but Hacktoberfest 2018 has officially come to a close. On…

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Beyond code: how content helps open source projects thrive 

  • 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.

One of the best things about the open source community is that anyone can have an impact, regardless…

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Join our #Hacktoberfest 2018 celebration! 

  • By Bernd Verst, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Linux, Containers and Python. Passionate about mentoring students and those early in their careers. German expat in Seattle who enjoys marathon running, jazz piano, karaoke, and learning Chinese Mandarin.

*UPDATE* Thanks for your amazing contributions to Hacktoberfest! Emails with the t-shirt redemption codes will be sent in…

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Hacktoberfest: Tips for growing open source communities in October and beyond 

  • By Stephanie Morillo, Developer advocate and content strategist at Microsoft. Ruby community member. Co-founder of #WOCinTech Chat, the initiative responsible for a collection of free stock images featuring women of color technologists.

For the last four years, DigitalOcean and GitHub have spearheaded Hacktoberfest, a month-long open source initiative that encourages…

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We’re joining Hacktoberfest 2018 

  • By Bernd Verst, Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, focusing on Linux, Containers and Python. Passionate about mentoring students and those early in their careers. German expat in Seattle who enjoys marathon running, jazz piano, karaoke, and learning Chinese Mandarin.

October 1 UPDATE: additional information on how to participate is now available here.  We’re excited to announce that…