Take advantage of Azure Functions to run small pieces of code that can be triggered by events in the Azure cloud. Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

One of the features of Azure Functions is the ability to easily create Webhooks. Webhooks allow integration with other systems, including third-party systems. Essentially, the external system can call ...

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For a technology that was born on Azure, beginning life as a derivative of its original platform WebJobs, Azure Functions has come a long way. It’s not just a cloud service, as it can be hosted in ...

Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

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SAN FRANCISCO--Not to be outdone, while Oracle is hosting its annual Java developer festival, Microsoft released a Java-based preview of its serverless computing offering, Azure Functions. According ...

Microsoft has updated Java tooling in its Visual Studio Code extension and the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ, showcasing a host of new features. For Visual Studio Code, the Extension Pack for Java now ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in the opening keynote at the Build 2017 conference, noted that DevOps and related technologies, such as containers and serverless computing, are driving major changes in ...