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 ...

Event-driven architectures are said to provide many benefits such as real-time processing, cost reduction, easier scalability and improved customer experiences. Microsoft says moving to an ...

Microsoft’s Event Grid is an important addition to Microsoft’s serverless options, providing the back end needed to build distributed applications that can work at scale, with minimal management and ...

Every new paradigm of computing has its own framework, and it is the adoption of that framework that usually makes it consumable for the regular enterprises that don’t have fleets of PhDs on hand to ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

Get ready with tin foil hats folks - we're going to get a tad geeky in this story about so-called serverless systems. Nope - these are not the fabled vapor clouds of a past failed PR program but a ...

A key part of Microsoft’s strategy for serverless computing is ready for prime time. Azure Event Grid, first announced last August, is now generally available, Microsoft is expected to announce ...

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