Azure’s serverless platform adds support for warm starts, longer-running functions, virtual network connections, and Azure Active Directory Topics Spotlight: Advancing IT Leadership ...

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 ...

Nearly every major cloud now offers a serverless computing option: AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, and IBM Bluemix OpenWhisk, to name a few. APIs are a common use case for ...

In his presentation, he discussed two stateful programming models, workflow and actors on Azure Functions - Microsoft’s implementation of serverless compute. BT InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter ...

Azure Functions is the new kid on the block in the Azure platform. It's a key ingredient of serverless compute that's needed to achieve the benefits of a cloud PaaS implementation. Azure Functions ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich (Photo courtesy Web Summit / cc2.0). For Microsoft Azure, 2017 will probably be remembered as the year of serverless and edge computing; the two concepts have ...

Microsoft has introduced Azure Event Grid, a managed service designed to simplify the development and provisioning of event-based applications, building on its serverless computing platform.

Microsoft answers AWS Lambda’s event-triggered serverless apps with Azure Functions. ... called Google Cloud Functions. The idea of a serverless application has fascinated me from the moment I ...

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.

Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...