Empowering Developers: Microsoft’s Commitment to Ope...
Talkat Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 · 2025-12-08..12-10·
summary
Azure runs roughly 70% Linux VMs and provides optimized distro images and managed services (AKS, Azure Container Apps, Azure OpenJDK). Microsoft contributes to PostgreSQL — 15–16 PostgreSQL committers at Microsoft — and ships DiskANN-based vector indexing used by AI tools. New HorizonDB (preview) separates compute/storage, rewrites storage in Rust and claims HorizonDB is ~3x faster than community PostgreSQL. AKS Automatic adds AI-driven node provisioning and managed node pools.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Microsoft’s open source commitment
- 5:07Open source contributions
- 10:53Azure open source services
- 18:10PostgreSQL popularity
- 24:38Azure PostgreSQL innovations
- 30:09Kubernetes advancements
- 37:58Red Hat collaboration
- 39:24Python contributions
- 42:33Java OpenJDK support
- 44:43GitHub Copilot tools
- 45:25Closing remarks
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