Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...

Serverless computing is an architecture where code execution is fully managed by a cloud provider, instead of the traditional method of developing applications and deploying them on servers. It means ...

Developing applications used to be an expensive business, requiring upfront capital investment in hardware and software before a single line of code was generated. As we know, cloud computing changed ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has had a rocky journey to where it is today. Its initial focus on delivering PaaS was clearly too early for the rest of the industry, and it was only a pivot to ...

Microsoft’s Cosmos DB database can now be used at the center of an event-driven app built with serverless technologies. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft’s strategy for helping its customers use one of the ...

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Serverless databases offer highly scalable, cloud-based data storage and retrieval without requiring you to provision CPU or storage ahead of time. Serverless cloud computing services started with AWS ...

Wikipedia describes serverless computing as: “a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand, taking care of the servers on behalf of their ...

The bad news: There are servers used in serverless computing. Real servers, with whirring fans and lots of blinking lights, installed in racks inside data centers inside the enterprise or up in the ...