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 ...

One of the building blocks of cloud-native application development is the API. By providing APIs to services, cloud applications can provide common backends to many applications across many platforms.

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 ...

Microsoft is making a big bet on serverless technologies this year, and it continued that push Wednesday with the release of Azure Event Grid, a new service for managing serverless app development.

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 ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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Serverless computing offers the opportunity to build and run web, Internet of Things and mobile applications without virtual or physical servers at a significantly reduced overhead cost. What’s not to ...

Introduction: Why Cloud Microsegmentation Must Evolve Cloud-native architectures built on auto-scaling virtual machines, platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and serverless platforms have transformed ...