The notion of a serverless compute architecture could gain some momentum in the next year, as two companies have recently introduced capabilities to simplify the development of apps on top of the ...

Microsoft’s SignalR was designed for real-time web applications. It’s now a low-cost messaging layer for serverless applications Building real-time applications isn’t easy. You need tools to ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced the preview launch of Azure Container Apps, a new fully managed serverless container service that complements the company’s existing container ...

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 ...

More than two years after Microsoft revealed plans to offer its Azure Stack software to makers of hybrid cloud-based appliances, Azure Stack is now set for release this September. Azure Stack, which ...

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Azure’s Cosmos DB is one of the platform’s foundations, powering many of its key services. Designed from the ground up as a distributed database, it implements a set of different consistency models ...

Serverless functions are a deceptively simple idea that while not especially new, only makes sense in the context of shared cloud services of immense scale. Still, serverless as a reality is both new ...