The hybrid platform now supports Azure Functions-- for event-driven, "serverless" computing using languages such as JavaScript, C# and F# -- and Azure App Service, which lets Visual Studio developers ...

Azure App Service’s worker model gives you many of the advantages of serverless computing, and its container support hits the sweet spot between Kubernetes and Functions.

In addition, the release also includes the Azure App Service, Microsoft’s cloud tools for quickly developing cloud-centric applications, as well as updated versions of Azure’s SQL/MySQL ...