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.

Specifically, this is the first version of Azure Stack to offer support for Azure Functions, Microsoft’s take on event-driven “serverless” computing (which still needs servers, but almost ...

One key Azure Functions feature is its portability, with the option of building Functions apps and a basic runtime in containers for deployment and testing.

Azure Functions get you beyond the traditional client/server approach to app creation, right into the cloud. Let’s first look at triggers.

An Azure Functions runtime is available for your own containers, so you can build and deploy serverless applications on your internal network or another public cloud.

Azure App Testing combines Microsoft's services for load and web testing. It scales automatically and offers AI-supported analysis for cross-platform tests.

Microsoft answers AWS Lambda’s event-triggered serverless apps with Azure Functions Ron Miller 9:24 AM PDT · March 31, 2016 ...

At JavaOne 2017, Microsoft previews its Azure Functions serverless offering with support for Java; Oracle introduces Project Fn, which runs across multiple clouds and also supports Java.