Microsoft’s rapid cloud container deployment service, Azure Container Instances (ACI), has shed it beta status and is now generally available, the Redmond, Wash. technology giant announced on April 25 ...

Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

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 ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual presentation on Azure hardware revealed a lot about the future of Microsoft’s cloud. Microsoft uses its events to lift the hood on Azure’s hardware and ...

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Microsoft ­­has added an important component to its public cloud, Azure Event Grid. This new service brings a fully-managed intelligent event routing mechanism that allows communication through the ...

Part 2: Now that we've nailed down the serverless compute concepts, we'll use a handful of online tools to develop Azure Functions. Last time, we looked at what's possible with the Azure IoT platform ...

Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless computing platform now has beta support for Java programming, a feature developers have demanded since Azure Functions’ 2016 debut. The beta inclusion of Java ...

Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich talks with reporters Thursday at the company’s Redmond campus. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft’s push into “serverless” computing aims to ...

Microsoft is making a big bet on serverless technologies this year, and it continued that push Wednesday with the release of Azure Event Grid, a new service for managing serverless app development.