Life's random bits By b1thunt3r (aka Ishan Jain)…
Azure and OSS

Azure and OSS

Azure is the perfect could platform for running Open Source either as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS) workloads.
Talk: Open Source on Azure

Talk: Open Source on Azure

Today I had the honor to speak at the Azure Dublin meetup. I covered basics of why Azure is relevant when running anything other than Microsoft stack.
Microsoft and Open Source

Microsoft and Open Source

Microsoft started working with the Open Source community as early as 2005. Since then we have come a long way.
What is Open Source and OSS

What is Open Source and OSS

Over the last number of years, people have frequently been encountering terms like Linux, Red Hat, Ubuntu, MySQL, etc. Now Microsoft has defined the term 'OSS' to refer to all of these products.
Is Google taking 'Be Evil' to next level

Is Google taking 'Be Evil' to next level

Recent changes in the web space, and behavior from Google is not only getting on my nerves, but may be ultimately really bad for the web in the long term.
Run .NET Core on Ubuntu with Snap

Run .NET Core on Ubuntu with Snap

The other day I was playing around with .NET Core, I decided to provision a Ubuntu Server Core and play around with .NET Core on Ubuntu.
Microsoft Edge: Chromium Edition

Microsoft Edge: Chromium Edition

In December 2018, along came another announcement from Microsoft. Microsoft announced it would stop development on EdgeHTML, and replace it with the Chromium for Edge browser.
Getting Started: Docker

Getting Started: Docker

There are several ways to start using Docker. You can either install it on your local workstation or use one of several Cloud services to run Docker. There are even online courses of Docker that provides you with the while environment needed to learn and experiment with. For now I am only going to concentrate on installation on local workstations. These g...