Microsoft has brought the notions of states to the formerly stateless Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless computing platform. The addition of states gives developers exciting new ways to take ...

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Just a handful of years ago we couldn’t stop talking about serverless computing. Then it seemed to disappear, overtaken first by Kubernetes and then by generative AI. But of course, like most ...

Announced as a public preview back in April of 2019, the Azure Functions Premium plan is now generally available. This set of functionality is focused on scale, performance, and network connectivity ...

Azure Functions get you beyond the traditional client/server approach to app creation, right into the cloud. Let’s first look at triggers. Azure Functions is another evolution of Platform as a Service ...

One of the features of Azure Functions is the ability to easily create Webhooks. Webhooks allow integration with other systems, including third-party systems. Essentially, the external system can call ...

Microsoft launched its cloud platform, Azure, in 2010. Since the launch, the service has posted triple digit growth, and last year generated over $1 billion in revenue, according to reports.

Microsoft revealed a significant shift in its strategy Monday, introducing two new and drastically different Windows products at its annual Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. First, ...