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Extending Azure security capabilities; Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads; Windows Server 2019 support now available for Windows Containers on Azure App Service; and much more.

Spinnaker is an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform for releasing software changes with high velocity and confidence. It is being chosen by a growing number of enterprises as the open source continuous deployment platform used to modernize their application deployments.

We are very excited to announce the Azure Functions Premium plan in preview, our newest Functions hosting model! This plan enables a suite of long requested scaling and connectivity options without compromising on event-based scale.

The Azure App Service engineering team is always striving to improve the efficiency and overall performance of applications on our platform. Today, we are happy to announce Windows Server 2019 Container support in public preview.

Precision medicine tailors a patient’s medical treatment by factoring in their genetic makeup and clinical data.

Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview on Azure; Azure Backup for SQL Server in Azure Virtual Machines now generally available; Microsoft’s Azure Cosmos DB is named a leader in the Forrester Wave: Big Data NoSQL; and much more.

We recently shared the public preview of the Windows Virtual Desktop service on Azure.

We are excited to join the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week to learn what’s new and share our work in Azure focused on enabling modern, global games via cloud and cloud-native technologies.

How do you back up your SQL Servers today? You could be using backup software that require you to manage backup servers, agents, and storage, or you could be writing elaborate custom scripts which need you to manage the backups on each server individually.

So you followed that excellent walkthrough on the web and built a great prototype web app. You run npm start locally and browse to https://localhost and it all looks great.

Since our public preview announcement at Microsoft Ignite 2018, every month thousands of developers worldwide have leveraged the Azure SignalR Service bindings for Azure Functions to add real-time capabilities to their serverless applications.

Take advantage of reliable collections to process event from Event Hubs using Service Fabric Processor. This new library lets to manage partitions and also provide with sophisticated load balancing.