The other day, I found myself watching a ticker on a petition site slowly roll over at a million signatures. It was clear that the site was struggling, with authentication emails taking anything up to ...

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one of the ...

Historically, virtual machines have dominated cloud computing. These virtual machines are basically software that emulates a physical computer server — a level of abstraction that makes it easy to ...

For Microsoft Azure, 2017 will probably be remembered as the year of serverless and edge computing; the two concepts have made their way into just about every appearance by one of its executives and ...

Extending its reach in the cloud, Microsoft Corp. today announced its Azure Event Grid service is now generally available. The service is a key part of the company’s strategy for serverless computing, ...

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 ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, examines the returns and efficiencies businesses are seeing with serverless computing, how to create a serverless architecture, ...

ORLANDO, Florida – Microsoft unleashed a wave of new enterprise Azure cloud products and services this week, which included greater support for containers and serverless computing. The container ...

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 this week launched Azure Event Grid, a new managed service aimed at developers who are increasingly building event-based, responsive applications that require event routing and handling.

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 has been working "aggressively" to push serverless computing, a new way of running applications on the cloud. And for Mark Russinovich, CTO of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, this is the ...