Microsoft is making available a new 'serverless compute' service, called Azure Functions, and is making its Platform-as-a-service offering, Azure Service Fabric, generally available.

Microsoft automatically scales the compute resources used by Azure Functions, and you’re billed for only the resources you work with.

With event-driven, serverless computing, compute resources are used only when needed, with developers building their applications to a set of APIs. There is no need to provision and manage servers.

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 ...

It's prudent to discuss the typical properties of Azure Functions and serverless architectures. Azure Functions provides the serverless compute component of a serverless architecture. As shown in ...

Nearly a year after rolling out its Azure Functions serverless compute option for running event-driven, modern PaaS apps and services, Microsoft has given it a cross-platform boost. The company ...

Azure Functions is the new kid on the block in the Azure platform. It's a key ingredient of serverless compute that's needed to achieve the benefits of a cloud PaaS implementation. Azure Functions ...

Azure Event Grid allows people who have bet on serverless technology to manage the array of functions needed to make this work, said Corey Sanders, head of product for Azure compute.

In the serverless space, Microsoft has two separate but related platforms: Azure Functions and Azure Logic Apps, and Azure Event Grid is the framework that is bringing them together and also hooking ...

Learn More. Java developers can now use Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless computing platform, to build and deploy applications on the Redmond, Wash. software marker’s cloud.