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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Microsoft had more developer news on Day 2 of its Build event, this time mostly focused on its Azure cloud computing resources. Today, Microsoft announced the "general availability" of Azure Service ...

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 today removed the “preview” label from Azure Service Fabric, its service for building and running both stateful and stateless Docker-based microservices in the cloud and on-premises. Service ...

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 ...

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 ...