As we wrap up #KubeCon North America, we'll be posting about some of the cool projects we're working on in the community. As Microsoft wraps the year with the 2nd highest number of contributions to all projects in the CNCF, brendandburns reflects on our OSS philosophy and

For Commit Your Code 2025, we are going to be adding a track. We just got the confirmation from the venue. We will be adding a C# .Net track 👀 So now - Java - JavaScript - Cloud And now, C# .Net! Going to need to update the CFP page soon!

🚀 Azure Upstream team is hiring in the US! Looking for Senior engineer to build cloud native OSS projects with #Kubernetes. 100% remote jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… DMs open! #opensource #hiring

Voting Ronny Chieng to lead Government Efficiency...his research(as he actually did some) on this subject is unmatched

Shout out to Ryan Clark. Talk about being a force multiplier for a team! He got the whole NFL on ESPN #Nflcountdown crew looking cleaner than the board of health! Looking at you Marcus Spears - chefs kiss

PSA - Circling Back starts January 13th, not January 6th

I just published Building Serverless AI Agents using Durable Functions on Azure link.medium.com/Kq7FZmLqWPb, something I worked on over the holiday break. It references a recent essay published by the Anthropic research team about the best practices for building effective AI agents.

The #ADHD brain that wants the same food for a month and then never again...this month it's strangely Chicken Pot Pie...I have no idea

Just merged support for messaging semantic conventions into the Kafka client integration for aspire! github.com/dotnet/aspire/… #dotnet #aspire

Commanders vs Lions....punters get the day off...

TikTok back 👀

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API security posture management is now natively integrated into Defender CSPM and available in public preview at no additional cost. #DefenderCSPM #MicrosoftDefenderForCloud #Security techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft…

Free Microsoft Exam vouchers are available!!! womenincloud.com/universal-digi…

Obsidian is now free for work. Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. If Obsidian benefits your organization, you can still purchase Commercial licenses to support development. Nothing else is changing. No

OpenTelemetry Demo 2.0 just got announced. It includes a ton of CNCF projects and a rewritten #dotnet auto-instrumentation demo opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel… #cncf #openTelemetry #cloudnative

Save the date, Aspire 9.1 release party! youtube.com/live/WnbDvuEjK… #dotnet #aspire

Execution is a skill. It's not enough to simply have an idea; executing on that idea, knowing when to do what, and adjusting your plans to accomplish the end goal is a distinct ability that must be developed.

New AKS Blog Post! This post details how to use Infiniband and RDMA to power HPC and AI workloads on AKS #aks #azure #kubernetes azure.github.io/AKS/2025/04/11…

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