25 September 2017
Up until recently, software development has been revolving around the concept of a server. Provisioning, maintaining, and scaling applications has been something that developers needed to spend a lot of time and effort on.
Rimma Nehme
Product Manager and Architect, Azure Cosmos DB
25 September 2017
With the increased popularity of serverless, we hear from developers from all kinds of backgrounds and preferences. Many of them are building truly impressive serverless applications.
19 September 2017
Customers often ask us about the scalability and throughput limits of the consumption plan for Azure Functions. The short answer is always “it depends, what does your workload look like?”.
Paul Batum
Principal Software Engineer Manager, Azure Functions
16 August 2017
Today, I am excited to announce that we are making event-based and serverless applications even easier to build on Azure. Azure Event Grid is a fully-managed event routing service and the first of its kind.
31 July 2017
Azure’s Serverless offerings allow developers to build and deploy elastic-scale applications faster than ever. Serverless technology allows developers to focus on their apps rather than provisioning,…
24 July 2017
Serverless is all the rage, now you can get in on the action using R! Azure Function supports a variety of languages (C#, F#, js, batch, PowerShell, Python, php and the list is growing). However R is not natively supported. In the following blog we describe how you can run R scripts on Azure Function using the R site extension.
15 May 2017
I get a lot of asks for new routing endpoints in Azure IoT Hub, and one of the more common asks is to be able to route directly to Azure Functions. Having the power of serverless compute at your fingertips is very powerful and allows you to do all sorts of amazing things with your IoT data.
10 May 2017
Serverless computing continues to gain momentum. The idea of building powerful solutions without worrying about infrastructure resonates with customers for many scenarios. Today we are happy to…
23 February 2017
Today we are happy to announce preview support for some new capabilities that will accelerate development of serverless applications using Azure Functions.
15 November 2016
One of the principles we believe in most for Azure Functions is that we want you to be solving business and application problems, not infrastructure problems.