Azure recently announced the preview of new API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps. Developers can now create an end-to-end authenticated application calling APIs hosted on Azure App Service, Az ...

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.

With the latest releases of Visual Studio 2017 and associated tools, it’s now possible to create Azure Functions from within the IDE using the same techniques (such as unit testing) as other types of ...

Azure Functions are well-suited for scheduled tasks, notifications, and lightweight APIs—any simple task that can be executed whenever a specified event occurs.

The last time we looked at Azure Functions, I introduced you to the basic triggers you can use with them. There are a number of events that can cause functions to begin execution ("triggered"), one of ...

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.

Oracle also introduced and open sourced its own serverless computing offering -- known as Project Fn -- at JavaOne 2017. With Fn, developers using Oracle Cloud Platform can build and run applications ...