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.

Azure Functions, Microsoft's serverless cloud computing offering, is previewing new functionality coming with its new support of .NET 7 as a runtime.

Two cloud development services -- Azure Functions and Azure App Service -- are now available on Azure Stack, which brings cloud functionality to on-premises, hybrid implementations.

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 ...

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

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