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Tutorials and demos January 28 8 min read

Hyperlight Nanvix: POSIX support for Hyperlight Micro-VMs

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Hyperlight project delivers faster, more secure, and smaller workload execution to the cloud-native ecosystem.

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Project updates October 9, 2025 4 min read

Marking Drasi’s first anniversary: introducing GQL support for Continuous Queries

Drasi turns one with GQL support—giving developers more ways to build change-driven systems.

Project updates September 3, 2025 2 min read

Bringing BASIC back: Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source

For decades, fragments and unofficial copies of Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC have circulated online, mirrored on retrocomputing sites, and preserved in museum archives.

News March 10, 2025 7 min read

Build a Hyperlight C guest to securely execute JavaScript

This article will show you how to create a “guest” application that uses the Hyperlight library.

Project updates February 22, 2021 2 min read

Microsoft Open Source success story—Babylon

An ongoing series of stories about Microsoft people and projects making their world better through open source.

News February 8, 2021 1 min read

Microsoft joins Rust Foundation

Today we’re excited to share that Microsoft is joining industry partners as founding members of the Rust Foundation, a new independent organization established to steward the Rust programming language and ecosystem and support Rust’s maintainers.

News June 3, 2018 8 min read

Why JavaScript and Node.js are ruling the web: Interview with John Papa

JavaScript has emerged as one of the most popular programming languages in the world, reigning at #1 on GitHub in terms of pull requests in 2017.

News May 12, 2018 6 min read

Why to love Python today and tomorrow: Interview with Nina Zakharenko

Python has been around for almost three decades. You can use is for web development.

Tutorials and demos April 26, 2018 4 min read

How to deploy a production-ready Node.js HA Stack on Azure

In our effort to bring the benefits of pre-packaged software to enterprise workloads in the cloud, Bitnami has recently started shipping a new generation of apps and infrastructure stacks in the Azure Marketplace that are designed for production use.

Project updates March 5, 2018 1 min read

Five things about TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development.

News February 21, 2018 6 min read

Ready, Set, Go lang: Brian Ketelsen explains Go’s fast growing popularity

Since its creation in 2009, the Go programming language has seen a growing global fan base of developers looking for a lightweight, open source language well-suited for today’s microservices architectures.

Tutorials and demos October 16, 2017 2 min read

Node.js dev? Learn how to host your apps on Azure

On Wednesday, October 18 at 10am (PST), John Papa, Principal Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, will be presenting a live webinar on deploying packaging and deploying Node.