The other day, I found myself watching a ticker on a petition site slowly roll over at a million signatures. It was clear that the site was struggling, with authentication emails taking anything up to ...

From AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to Knative and OpenFaaS, we have at least a dozen functions-as-a-service platforms to choose from. Here’s how to navigate the options. Running a server farm in the ...

Nearly a year after rolling out its Azure Functions serverless compute option for running event-driven, modern PaaS apps and services, Microsoft has given it a cross-platform boost. The company ...

Enterprises have the tendency to adopt a technology only after it moves to its third major version. CXOs are not for embracing cutting-edge technologies before they became stable and proven to be ...

Microsoft is making available a preview of a "="" service"=""> to compete with AWS Lambda. Microsoft is open sourcing the runtime for Azure Functions, said Microsoft's chief of Cloud and Enterprise, ...

Is there really such a thing as "serverless computing"? Of course not -- there's always a server somewhere in the mix. But there is a growing movement toward pushing all the backend requirements ...

Serverless computing is a hot topic in the dev world right now, and Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to stay current in the arena with two new offerings. In serverless computing, server management ...

The rise of mobile and IoT applications is fueling the growth of serverless computing platforms. This new paradigm is based on the microservices architecture, which is revolutionizing software ...