azure functions

Microsoft's decision to move Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to general availability marks a pivotal moment for enterprise agent architectures: Azure now provides a first‑class, identity‑aware, serverless path for hosting MCP servers with built‑in authentication, a...

Microsoft’s Azure platform has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud‑Native Application Platforms, a recognition Microsoft highlights as validation of its developer‑focused platform strategy and AI‑centric roadmap. The company says it was placed furthest to the right...

Title: Should .NET Developers Learn Azure or AWS in 2025? By: [Your Name], Senior IT Reporter — WindowsForum.com Lead Short answer: It depends. For .NET developers entrenched in Microsoft shops and regulated industries, Azure remains the most pragmatic first move. For those aiming for broad...

Managing cloud costs in Azure has become one of the biggest challenges for technology teams. While Azure offers flexibility and power, it also makes it easy to overspend. Resources are often left running, services are overprovisioned, and budgets get blown without warning. What’s changed...

Azure’s ongoing evolution as a cloud services leader pivots significantly around the critical theme of observability, and recent moves to integrate first-class OpenTelemetry (OTel) support for both Logic Apps and Azure Functions signal a deepening commitment to industry standards and...

Microsoft’s continued push for open and standardized observability has taken a big leap forward, as Azure Logic Apps (Standard and Hybrid) and Azure Functions introduce support for OpenTelemetry, the open-source observability framework that has become a de facto standard for tracing, logging...

In the new era of artificial intelligence, cloud-native development, and global digital transformation, the rise of serverless computing on Microsoft Azure has shifted from technical novelty to enterprise necessity. The Forrester Wave™: Serverless Development Platforms, Q2 2025, recently...

In the bustling world of bits, bytes, and bizarre Zoom backgrounds, the life of a software engineer is never what you’d call predictable. One day you’re tweaking a database schema; the next, you're learning that the language du jour is “so last quarter.” As machine learning, cloud computing, and...

Serverless computing has rapidly emerged as one of the most transformative paradigms in cloud technology, reshaping how applications are built, deployed, and managed in today’s software landscape. While the term “serverless” may sound like an oxymoron, there are certainly servers behind the...

On April 30, 2025, Microsoft disclosed a critical security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-33074, affecting Azure Functions. This flaw arises from improper verification of cryptographic signatures, potentially allowing authorized attackers to execute arbitrary code over a network...

When deploying applications to Microsoft Azure, developers and IT administrators often find themselves quickly securing code and dependencies, but may fail to give the same rigorous attention to securing the underlying network. This oversight is dangerous, especially as cloud-based microservices...

Microsoft's latest public preview release introduces an exciting new dimension for developers: an Azure Database for MySQL trigger for Azure Functions. This innovative trigger allows Azure Functions to react immediately when rows in MySQL tables are created, updated, or deleted, marking a...

Welcome to the future of cryptocurrency alerts! If you're navigating the whirlwind of crypto price volatility, having real-time data and timely alerts in your pocket is critical. Enter Azure Functions paired with CoinGecko's robust API: a match made in serverless heaven. Today, we will break...

Ah, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)—the buzzword that makes you sound like a tech-savvy ninja in any IT gumbo. But let’s cut through the hype and get down to the brass tacks: EDA isn’t just a buzzword—it’s a powerful way to engineer scalable, efficient, and modern systems that respond to...

We’ve already seen how to get your devices to send data to the cloud. In most cases, the data is then processed by various Azure services. However, in some cases the cloud is nothing more than a means of communication between two devices. Imagine a Raspberry Pi connected to a garage door...