Established in 2015, Kloud-Soft Pte Ltd is a Singapore-based startup that promotes next generation modern workplace solutions. They specialise in human resource workforce management, content information services, and cloud application development. In 2016, Kloud-Soft won the Microsoft Singapore Partner Award for Open Source on Azure. And in 2017, they won the National Business Award from Read more
Microsoft Inspire kicks off today in Washington DC, where partners have an incredible opportunity to meet new partners and make connections that will support business growth for years to come. Open source solutions, particularly in the cloud, is a major growth opportunity for our partners. Microsoft’s investments in open source technologies and open standards enables Read more
This week, Microsoft announced that the Arduino extension for Visual Studio Code is now open source. The extension is consistent and compatible with the official Arduino IDE. Now developers can easily code, build, and deploy Arduino sketches in Visual Studio Code, which is Microsoft’s lightweight but powerful source code editor that is available for free Read more
Microsoft Australia sponsored the first ever container technology focused event in the Asia Pacific region: Container Camp Sydney at the SMC Conference Center. Approximately 520 developers and engineers who are interested in highly technical workshops and training on containers and orchestrators attended this groundbreaking three-day event in May 2017. “Wait, what is a container?” you Read more
Microsoft’s Open Source team organized a series of events across Asia Pacific last month (May 2017), which were aimed at sharing their cloud vision and support for running open source solutions on Azure. These open source roadshows attracted 1,500 registrations and over 800 attendees. The topics covered across the events included a range of basic Read more
Azure OpenDev is the first-ever virtual event from Microsoft that showcases open source technologies in the cloud. Hosted by John Gossman, Lead Architect, Microsoft Azure, the event features industry thought leaders, including Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical and speakers from Docker, Pivotal, Red Hat, and Chef, as well as Microsoft teams dedicated to open source. Join Read more
We’re proud to name Cardinal Solutions Group the winner of the third annual Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year award. Cardinal Solutions was recognized for providing excellent open source-based solutions on Microsoft Azure, helping customers drive their digital transformations. This year Microsoft acknowledged partners in 34 categories, celebrating partners’ core competencies, including cloud technology, Read more
In this blog post, I’ll show how we packed our Kubernetes microservices app with Helm, running on Azure Container Service, and made them easy to reproduce in various environments. Shipping microservices as a single piece of block At RisingStack we use Kubernetes with tens of microservices to provide our Node.js monitoring solution Trace for our Read more
Microsoft supports the diverse needs of every organization and developer – from core infrastructure services to platform services and tools to software-as-a-service – for any language, across any platform. Last week at Build, Microsoft focused on how to empower Windows, iOS, Android, Mac and Linux developers to reach billions of new customers. Here’s a round-up Read more
From the 22nd to the 24th of May 2017, you can join various container experts for three days of technical talks, workshops, and demos covering all major platforms at the SMC Centre in Sydney, Australia. Whether you are a newcomer or an expert container user, a startup founder or an enterprise, you can learn something Read more
Some of the 3,000 open source contributors from across Microsoft are at OSCON this week, to focus on how the open source ecosystem is playing a major role in technology innovation, from artificial intelligence and IoT to microservices and containers. Support for open source solutions is crucial to enabling a thriving technology ecosystem and Microsoft Read more
Post by Jeff McAffer and Jeff Wilcox Thousands of Microsoft engineers use, contribute to, and release open source projects every day across every platform, from the cloud to client operating systems, programming languages and more. Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) supports these engineers, helping to drive open source culture, policies, processes, and tools. The Read more
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