Redmond takes a small step towards opening Service Fabric

Last year, Microsoft offered up its first public beta of Azure Service Fabric for Linux. This month, it quietly took another step with the fabric by partly open-sourcing it. As we reported last November, Azure Service Fabric is a platform for cloud-hosted microservices. Created to handle Microsoft projects like Azure SQL, …

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Something that I admire from Microsoft is their reluctance to fall for catchy or whimsical names for their more specialized products. "Reliable Services" and "Reliable Actors" goes along the lines of "Internet Information Services" or even "SQL Server". It's not very hard to figure what they could be all about, and that's a good thing.