How to use Azure’s PaaS tools to build cloud-hosted apps that run on your mobile devices and in your browsers Microsoft Azure’s mix of platform and infrastructure tools make it an interesting ...

Microsoft recently unveiled Azure App Service, a new cloud service which combines three older products: Azure Websites, Azure Mobile Services, and Azure BizTalk Services. Uniting web, mobile, and ...

At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

“In the world of cloud computing, APIs are the new currency,” Microsoft’s VP of its developer division S. “Soma” Somasegar told me last week. But if that’s true, then how can you best create an API ...

Microsoft is combining three of its Azure services into a new unified service it's calling Azure App Service, company officials said on March 24. Azure App Service integrates Azure Websites (now known ...

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Developers currently on the three standalone platforms will not have to pay higher subscription rates -- individual services will simply be integrated with the other two. Microsoft also recently ...