Woo! It's Friday, so as you're getting ready for the weekend, maybe you should get caught up on some of the news from around the Azure DevOps community.

I'm always fascinated to see how people take the flexibility of the Azure DevOps platform and stretch it to the limits. This week, people are creating pipelines for containers, NuGet packages and even retrocomputers!

Without a doubt, the biggest news this week is that Microsoft has completed its acquisition of GitHub. The future is bright, and I can't wait to see how people will continue to use GitHub and Azure DevOps together. This partnership opens a new door of possibilities for developers, and I'm so excited to see what we'll build together.

It's another Friday, and I've spent another week talking to customers about their DevOps journey. And it's another week of amazing content about DevOps on the Microsoft cloud from the community.

I'm back! One of the great privileges of my job is that I get to spend a lot of time talking to customers about DevOps. But that often means a lot of time on the road, and stepping away from drinking at the firehose of great content coming from the Azure DevOps community. But now that I'm back in the office, I've found a great bunch of DevOps links...

Today, the Git project has announced a security vulnerability: there is a security issue in recursively cloning submodules that can lead to arbitrary code execution. The Azure DevOps team encourages you to examine whether you are on an affected platform and, if so, upgrade your Git clients to the latest version.

Wow, y'all: seven years ago today, at the BUILD conference, we announced the preview of what we called "Team Foundation Service". That service offering became Visual Studio Team Services. And on Monday, we announced the newest evolution of what that vision has become: Azure DevOps.

This week is one of my favorite times of year. The evenings are getting cool and crisp, the apple tree in the backyard is bearing fruit, and best of all, there's some great DevOps reading to be had. That's right, I know what I'm doing this weekend!

I don't know about y'all, but it's been a long week here on the VSTS team. I'm beat! And when I'm tired, it gets hard to focus on those little letters on my LCD. So this week I'm linking you to a bunch of great content that you don't have to read!

Another Friday means another happy hour! No, not the time when I hit the bar after work — the time when I catch up on the news around DevOps for VSTS and Azure. Here's what I've been reading (and, this week, writing!)