“Tech companies born with an open source mentality get it. It’s our ability to work together that makes our dreams believable and, ultimately, achievable. We must learn to build on the ideas of others”—Satya Nadella Whenever I teach open source at Microsoft, I open with this quot … | Continue reading
eBPF is a well-known, but revolutionary, technology for providing programmability, extensibility, and agility. eBPF has been applied to use cases such as denial-of-service protection and observability. In May 2021, we announced the effort to make eBPF work on Windows, and were en … | Continue reading
We are introducing ONNX Runtime Web (ORT Web), a new feature in ONNX Runtime to enable JavaScript developers to run and deploy machine learning models in browsers. It also helps enable new classes of on-device computation. ORT Web will be replacing the soon to be deprecated onnx. … | Continue reading
eBPF is a well-known but revolutionary technology—providing programmability, extensibility, and agility. eBPF has been applied to use cases such as denial-of-service protection and observability. Over time, a significant ecosystem of tools, products, and experience has been built … | Continue reading
Microsoft Research – in collaboration with academic and industry partners – is preparing for the challenge post-quantum cryptography poses. | Continue reading
Amid the relentless challenges of 2020, the wheels of the financial industry kept turning. At the root of it all is the historic acceleration of digital technology in the pandemic. It’s what enabled the financial services workforce to keep working and servicing its customers and … | Continue reading
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. We look forward to collaborating … | Continue reading
Azure Quantum is the world’s first full-stack, public cloud ecosystem for quantum solutions. | Continue reading
Microsoft continues to learn from and grow engagement with open source communities. Sharing four learnings from the past year that will continue to guide us in 2021. | Continue reading
Akri is a new open source project that is designed to electrify the edge for Kubernetes users, exposing leaf devices as resources in Kubernetes clusters. | Continue reading
In a new Nature Physics paper, researchers from Microsoft and Copenhagen University demonstrated a novel heterostructure with remarkable properties. | Continue reading
Discover how to implement a Bring Your Own Device policy (BYOD) into your organisation while keeping security and productivity at heart. | Continue reading
Microsoft is releasing an indexing subsystem for Apache Spark called Hyperspace – the same technology that powers indexing within Azure Synapse Analytics. | Continue reading
Microsoft is releasing an indexing subsystem for Apache Spark called Hyperspace – the same technology that powers indexing within Azure Synapse Analytics. | Continue reading
Krustlet is a brand new project that helps you test drive WebAssemblies (WASM) in Kubernetes alongside your containers, offering the possibility of new security and runtime capabilities. | Continue reading
The Windows community in Kubernetes has been working on improvements that enable even more use cases with the release of Kubernetes v1.18. | Continue reading
Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes. Operators are design-pattern-driven pieces of code that encapsulate knowledge for running an application. Yet, there are questions floating around about which one is “the winner.” | Continue reading
Version 2.0 of the Azure Provider for Terraform is now available, including significant improvements for managing Microsoft Azure with Terraform. | Continue reading
As part of the February Quantum Development Kit (QDK) update, we are releasing our new Quantum Machine Learning (QML) library. | Continue reading
We’re happy to announce that Microsoft is now OpenChain 2.0 conformant. | Continue reading
Em Lazer-Walker | Cloud Advocate I was approached by my colleague, Jen Looper, in early Fall to lead on an interactive experience dubbed “Azure Mystery Mansion.” She had heard of a previous project which had been a hit, Power Animal Quiz, and was on the hunt for a new and cool pr … | Continue reading
KEDA is an open sourced component that can run in any Kubernetes cluster to provide event-driven autoscaling for every container. | Continue reading
Barcelona may be one of the world’s major global centers for tourism, the economy, trade and culture but, starting today, it’s the apex for smart cities. Our Microsoft for Smart Cities team and partners are excited to join government and civic leaders as well as experts at the Sm … | Continue reading
Next week is KubeCon North America 2019, but we wanted to give you an early preview of one of the things we’ll be showing. Over the last few years, we’ve been working on tools for the cloud native ecosystem. From Helm and Brigade to Porter and Rudr, each tool we have built is des … | Continue reading
Dr. Matthias Troyer accepted the 2019 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics – one of the most valuable German prizes in the field – for his groundbreaking contributions to the development of quantum Monte Carlo algorithms. | Continue reading
With the release of Ansible 2.9, Microsoft furthers its commitment to ensuring that Azure provides excellent experiences for Ansible users. | Continue reading
Today we are announcing the November release of Azure Data Studio is now available. Download Azure Data Studio and review the release notes to get started. Please note: After downloading Azure Data Studio, say Yes to enabling the preview features so that you can use the extension … | Continue reading
One year after ONNX Runtime’s initial preview release, we’re excited to announce v1.0 of the high-performance ML model inferencing engine. | Continue reading
In May 2019, Network Policies on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) became generally available through the Azure native policy plug-in or through the community project Calico. This user-defined network policy feature enables secure network segmentation within Kubernetes and allows cl … | Continue reading
Dapr enables all developers using any language and any framework to easily build portable microservices applications. | Continue reading
Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud have created the Open Application Model (OAM) project under the Open Web Foundation. | Continue reading
SandDance, the beloved data visualization tool from Microsoft Research, has been re-released as an open source project on GitHub. | Continue reading
Last year at Microsoft Connect and DockerCon we announced the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) specification in partnership with Docker, HashiCorp, and Bitnami. Since then the CNAB community has grown to include Pivotal, Intel, Datadog, and others, and we are all extremely … | Continue reading
We’re pleased to announce that Microsoft is supporting the addition of Microsoft’s exFAT technology to the Linux kernel. | Continue reading
Modern application infrastructure is being transformed by containers. The question is: How do you get started? | Continue reading
Java is one of the most important open source projects in the world today. Born nearly 25 years ago around the same time as Microsoft SQL Server, it has since grown to a community of millions of developers around the world and by many reports is the most popular programming langu … | Continue reading
As companies start to adopt Kubernetes, it’s critical to incorporate DevSecOps best practices. Learn how in this blog post. | Continue reading
At Microsoft, our Quantum mission is to develop and deploy the world’s most scalable, secure, quantum computing system and to support a rich ecosystem of domain experts, developers, and researchers to solve today’s most challenging problems. To help achieve this mission we introd … | Continue reading
With the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit, getting started with quantum development is easy. Now we’re helping to make it even easier: we’ve partnered with the team of educators at Brilliant.org to teach you about quantum computing in a new way. | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the monthly release of SQL Server 2019 community technology preview (CTP) 3.0. For customers in the Early Adoption Program, CTP 3.0 is the first release where you’re able to run SQL Server 2019 in production. To apply, please reach out to your assigned P … | Continue reading
Last month, we gave everyone a detailed sneak peek into new capabilities we are releasing with Windows Server, version 1903. Today, we are excited to announce that this release is now generally available. Windows Server, version 1903 brings innovation to areas that that matter to … | Continue reading
With the release of Ansible 2.8, Microsoft continues its commitment with our biggest release to-date of new modules supporting a wide range of Azure services. | Continue reading
Helm is the best way to find, share, and use software built for Kubernetes. The eagerly anticipated Helm 3 alpha is now available for testing! | Continue reading
Announcements from KubeCon EU: Helm 3 release, Kubernetes integration with VS Code, Virtual Kubelet project 1.0 release, and Service Mesh Interface (SMI). | Continue reading
Service Mesh Interface (SMI) defines a set of common, portable APIs that provide developers with interoperability across different service mesh technologies, including Istio, Linkerd, and Consul Connect. | Continue reading
Once again, SQL Server 2017 has led the pack with three new TPC benchmarks published in April 2019, ranking SQL Server 2017 as the fastest database for online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehouse (DW) workloads on Windows and Linux. Together with our partners, SQL Ser … | Continue reading
With this month’s Quantum Development Kit release, we’re focused on empowering our users to get engaged with quantum development. The new release makes it easier to learn quantum computing with the quantum katas notebooks. | Continue reading
Microsoft is bringing the benefits of event-driven architectures & the productivity of functions to Kubernetes with KEDA – Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling. | Continue reading