Azure’s Cosmos DB is one of the platform’s foundations, powering many of its key services. Designed from the ground up as a distributed database, it implements a set of different consistency models ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than two years after Microsoft revealed plans to offer its Azure Stack software to makers of hybrid cloud-based appliances, Azure Stack is now set for release this September. Azure Stack, which ...