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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Service Fabric started as an internal platform for Azure SQL, Cortana, and other services. I think MS's long-term plan to become Red Hat clone is a good path to sustainable profitability, but I don't ...