Serverless technologies such as Azure Functions remain an important tool for building modern, cloud-based applications. They provide a framework for rapid scaling and help keep costs to a minimum ...

Azure and other cloud platforms have a different view of their hardware than we do, treating them as discrete elements of compute, networking, and storage. These are put together in the basic ...

Microsoft is making available a new 'serverless compute' service, called Azure Functions, and is making its Platform-as-a-service offering, Azure Service Fabric, generally available.

Nearly a year after rolling out its Azure Functions serverless compute option for running event-driven, modern PaaS apps and services, Microsoft has given it a cross-platform boost. The company ...

Azure Serverless Computing Cookbook, third edition by Praveen Kumar Sreeram. Spend more time building great apps and less time managing server infrastructure. Get your solutions to market faster using ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explains why serverless is the future of cloud computing. This year, Microsoft launched new serverless products.

Azure Functions provides the serverless compute component of a serverless architecture. As shown in Figure 1 , Azure Functions builds on top of Azure App Service and the WebJobs SDK, adding a bit of ...

Azure Functions is one implementation of Serverless Architecture also known as Functions as a Service (FaaS). Azure Functions can also be a delivery mechanism for microservices. With Azure Functions ...