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Microsoft edged another step toward making Azure Service Fabric open source. The company released not the long-awaited Service Fabric source code but the next best thing: an official, supported release of Service Fabric on Linux.
In an today's announcement, Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich proclaimed the need for "a consistent microservices application platform and management experience across enterprise IT infrastructure," whatever the operating system or programming language.
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