That serverless approach makes Functions ideal for event-driven computing, a model that’s closely related to the microservice architectures that are increasingly popular for born-in-the cloud ...

Azure Functions can also be a delivery mechanism for microservices. With Azure Functions there are no virtual machines (VMs) to manage. Instead, a number of discrete functions live inside a Function ...

In this example, the function will be called every time a new issue is added to the repository. The first step is to obtain the "GitHub secret" and the function URL for the Azure Function. To do this, ...

This example shows you how to use Azure services to build scalable, serverless web applications Credit: Sharon Gaudin/IDG ...

These serverless functions are available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace and functions library in three Azure Resource Manager (ARM) solution templates and developers can get started with ...

Developers interested in using Java to build serverless apps using Microsoft Azure Functions will now have that option, Microsoft plans to announce Wednesday at JavaOne. One of the most requested ...

Since it first released Azure Functions back in early 2016, Microsoft has been steadily building out its approach to serverless computing, which first arrived on the cloud computing scene via ...

Examples of serverless functions include AWS Lambda on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft ’s Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions. In each case, you don't have prior access to the ...

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.