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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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

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 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 ...

The Microsoft public cloud service this year will gain new levels of scalability with the pending release of Azure Service Fabric. It's one of those new capabilities that won't initially appeal to ...

Microsoft's next-gen PaaS, Service Fabric, offers unique benefits -- including support for stateful services and Reliable Actors. Here's how to get all you can from it When Microsoft launched Azure, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...