Although you could use tools such as Azure Functions or App Service to build your own data API layer, it adds inefficiencies and increases your maintenance and testing requirements.

SWA was already integrated with Azure Functions, allowing developers to deploy an API with the static web app without managing a separate Azure Functions resource.

Full-scale application deployments across Azure, integrating services such as Azure Functions, API Management, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and GitHub Actions.

Microsoft announced several new features that are now generally available in the fall update of Azure Functions, used for event-driven serverless computing in the cloud. To start off, while Azure ...

Keeping Azure Functions states external Having a way to externalize state is very important, because it’s central to avoiding the workarounds needed to build state in a stateless platform like ...

Microsoft has purchased Washington, D.C. startup Apiphany, a maker of an application-programming-interface management platform, which it plans to make available as part of Windows Azure.

"To enable .NET 5 in Azure Functions, we are moving to an out-of-process model that runs a .NET 5 worker process alongside the runtime," said the team's Anthony Chu, in a blog post that was updated ...

Serverless computing becomes a focus at JavaOne 2017, as Oracle introduces Project Fn and Microsoft previews Java support for Azure Functions.