SAN FRANCISCO—Yesterday at its Build developer conference, the topic was Microsoft’s first major platform: Windows. Today, it was the turn of the other platform, Azure, with Microsoft talking up its ...

Microsoft announced it was previewing a new service today at its annual Build Developer conference that lets programmers create event-driven triggers without deploying any underlying infrastructure.

Microsoft Azure now has a feature of its own to match AWS Lambda, the Amazon Web Services service that lets you run applications without having to rent an entire server. Microsoft calls it Azure ...

A first-hand, step-by-step look at the ease and simplicity of Amazon's "function as a service" platform Why would a developer use AWS Lambda? In a word, simplicity. AWS Lambda—and other event-driven, ...

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, ...

I recently attended a Town Hall hosted by Microsoft presenting their solution for microservices in the Azure cloud. The session provided a view into Microsoft’s approach and support for this rapidly ...

With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way If you’ve ever been woken up at 3 a.m. because a server went haywire, ...

Serverless adoption is rising rapidly. Recently, AWS released a new feature called Lambda function URLs. This feature enables configuring HTTP endpoints, to directly invoke lambda functions, without ...