Last time I looked at the basics of triggers. Let's look at creating an HTTP-triggered function for displaying a greeting based on a target audience. The last time we looked at Azure Functions, I ...

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Another benefit of the hyperscale clouds is their operational expertise and their infrastructure design. They can spin up a new server instance in seconds, providing compute on demand. And with ...

Microsoft has brought the notions of states to the formerly stateless Azure Functions, Microsoft’s serverless computing platform. The addition of states gives developers exciting new ways to take ...

Two cloud development services -- Azure Functions and Azure App Service -- are now available on Azure Stack, which brings cloud functionality to on-premises implementations. Azure Stack extends the ...

Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform has been gaining steam since its launch to paying customers in February. Just last week it reached 10,000 customers; already, Azure is shaping up to ...