Azure Functions

Five highlights from last week in Azure for the week of October 2, 2017.

Serverless provides a great model for accelerating app development, but developers want to do it using the programming languages and development tools of their choice.

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.

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?”.

Announcing Azure Storage Client Library for JavaScript

Today we are happy to announce preview support for some new capabilities that will accelerate development of serverless applications using Azure Functions.

Today, Microsoft announced a new partnership with OpenAI, a nonprofit AI research organization co-founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever.

Today organizations are turning to the cloud not only to accelerate – but to transform – their business. Part of the Azure PaaS portfolio, Azure Functions, offers a serverless compute experience for rapid application development and operational agility.

We are happy to announce an exciting new capability we’ve added to the IoT Gateway SDK: Support for Azure Functions. With Azure Functions integration, developers can easily call cloud-based logic from their IoT gateway.

Our team was excited to recently release a preview of the new Azure Functions service at //build. We’ve done some blogging about the service already (e.g.