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 ...

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 ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...