The consternation seen in some corners of the internet over Microsoft’s agreement to acquire GitHub is overblown and too early. For those who don’t follow me normally, I am a developer for Windows, Android and Linux. I am also a user of both GitHub and BitBucket. While I am an advocate, I am more of […]
Microsoft Is Acquiring GitHub for $7.5B, Becomes Steward of Leading Open Source Repository
As part of its effort to get even closer to the developer community, Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub controls the open source repository that is at the center of millions of DevOps processes and is home to up to 28 million developers worldwide. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said GitHub will remain an open […]
Microsoft Snaps Up GitHub for $7.5 Billion
Recognizing the role GitHub plays in the larger developer and DevOps ecosystems, Microsoft is acquiring the software development platform for a cool $7.5 billion, the two companies have announced. GitHub, the world’s leading software development platform, has more than 28 million users who “learn, share and collaborate to create the future,” according to the press […]
VMware Ties Desktop Virtualization to DevOps Productivity
It’s no secret that when it comes to building applications, many developers prefer to use the Apple Macintosh. However, that preference can create multiple DevOps challenges. VMware is moving to reduce the friction with the release of VMware Fusion Pro 10, a desktop virtualization offering for Apple Macs that now supports REST application programming interfaces […]
Creatures of Habit, Snowflakes and Integration Tax
Donovan Brown of Microsoft, in conversation with Matt Hilbert of Redgate Software, discusses database DevOps’ biggest challenges When DevOps was first talked about in Flickr’s seminal “10 deploys per day” Velocity presentation in 2009, it was regarded by some as strange and alien to corporate culture. It was the antithesis to the accepted way of […]
Microsoft Woos Development Partners
If Microsoft has its way, many more DevOps processes will revolve around the cadence at which the company upgrades its applications. At its Inspire 2017 conference, the tech behemoth announced an ISV Cloud Embed initiative designed to entice more developers to add value by extending application functionality it has already developed and deployed in the […]
Microsoft Lifts Investment in Cloud Foundry
At the Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 conference this week Microsoft formally pledged its support for the open-source platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment by becoming a gold member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF). Beyond influencing the future direction of the Cloud Foundry PaaS, Microsoft also revealed this week it will tighten the integration between the […]
BrowserStack Offers Free Microsoft Edge Browser Testing
Testing is a major element of development. Without effective testing, you’re essentially releasing beta software and forcing your customers to be the guinea pigs in discovering any flaws or issues. But Microsoft is making it easier for developers to test how things behave and execute within the Edge browser, thanks to a new partnership with […]
Addressing Container Security Challenges
From month to month or even week to week, more organizations are developing with containers. The concept of containers isn’t all that new, but the dramatic rise in adoption of container technologies and the support from major tech vendors and platforms has helped containers become mainstream quickly. As with most emerging technologies, now that containers […]
Docker On Windows, One Engineering System, Microsoft Uses DevOps To Reinvent Itself
While at DOES San Francisco 2016 last week I had a chance to sit down with two presenters who work at Microsoft. One is someone I have interviewed before at both DOES and here on staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner of Microsoft Visual Studio Cloud Services. Joining Sam and I is Ed Blankenship, Product Manager […]
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