Martin Woodward

At the Microsoft Reactor in London this morning, Donovan Brown announced that customers can now create Azure DevOps organizations and choose that their data will be hosted in the UK Azure geography.

Today we are excited to announce that Azure DevOps is now available over Azure ExpressRoute. Customers who typically operate in the government and financial services sectors have requested this support because they want private connections that don’t go over the public Internet for security reasons. ExpressRoute also typically offers them more reliability, faster speeds, and lower latencies than typical Internet connections.

Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
Top Stories

Use Cognitive Services in VSTS Custom Branch Policies – Yan Sklyarenko
Following on from the popular post about using Twitter sentiment as a release gate,

Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics.
Top Stories

How Microsoft Does DevOps – Dave Harrison
An excellent write-up of an interview by Dave Harrison of Aaron Bjork with links to Aaron’s excellent Agile at Microsoft talk and other content about how Microsoft does DevOps.

As part of our engineering processes in Microsoft, we often share best practices and stories of change across the engineering teams in the company. At our latest internal engineering conference as I listened in to sessions, I was struck by the sheer scale of the effort the Windows and Devices Group (WDG) undertook and the problems they’ve solved using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and wanted to write up some of my key takeaways here.

Here are the top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics:
 TOP STORIES * Bulk import git repositories into VSTS/TFS – Gordon Beeming Gordon takes us through the different ways to import a Git repository into VSTS and then shows us how to easily automate the process using the VSTS REST API if you have hundreds to bring over like he did.

It was a busy week for everyone last week at the Build 2017 conference in Seattle. Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the conference and stop by the DevOps area to talk about VSTS. Even for the people that were there in person it is impossible to catch everything,

On June 17th 2017, the always awesome community of individuals passionate about DevOps on the Microsoft stack are coming together in a series of meet-ups around the world as part of their first Global DevOps Bootcamp. At the events you’ll learn about the latest trends and people will be sharing their DevOps experiences. 

As part of the #SpringIntoDevOps series, Gopinath Chigakkagari – GPM of the Release Management team at Microsoft joined the most recent episode of Radio TFS with MVP’s Greg Duncan and Josh Garverick to talk about the latest news around Visual Studio Team Service and Team Foundation Server as well as dive into release management and DevOps in general. 

Stack Overflow just released their annual community survey and it reminded us that a happy developer is a developer who can ship. Of course, nowadays shipping means having a great pipeline for continuous integration and continuous deployment. That allows you to continuously improve.