When Microsoft’s cloud platform, then known as Windows Azure, was first launched, it was strictly a Platform-as-a-Service offering. Apps written for Azure were deployed onto Windows and used Azure’s ...

Microsoft has open-sourced one of Azure’s foundational services. But what is Service Fabric and how can you use it? Cloud services like Azure are at heart massive distributed systems, hosting all ...

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Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft's PaaS solution for microservices, provides a highly flexible framework for building cloud-scale applications. Here's how to take advantage of it If there’s one thing ...

Microsoft today announced Azure Service Fabric, a new Azure service that aims to make it easier for developers at startups and ISVs to create highly scalable cloud applications. The idea is to give ...

Microsoft will deliver a developer preview of its new Azure Service Fabric-- its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology for building microservices -- during the company's Build 2015 conference next ...

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Microsoft’s CTO for Azure (and occasional novelist) Mark Russinovich is extremely bullish about microservices. In his view, the vast majority of apps — including enterprise apps — will soon be built ...

Microsoft’s embrace of open source software continues, with Azure Service Fabric making the first tentative foray into the open world. Today, the SDK was (mostly) published to GitHub under the MIT ...

Cloud service for orchestrating microservices from within Visual Studio will have a preview at next week's Microsoft Build conference. Microsoft unveiled its Azure Service Fabric, a preview of which ...

At Microsoft's conference later this month, it will show off the microservice-based ALM too. It won't have Visual Studio support, but developers will be able to use Linux dev tools to allow Service ...