Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language. The general availability of Python support follows a ...

Amazon’s AWS Lambda was a radical idea: Use snippets of code in JavaScript, Python, or Java to build applications that run statelessly on a platform with no instances and no management overhead.

Microsoft announced it was previewing a new service today at its annual Build Developer conference that lets programmers create event-driven triggers without deploying any underlying infrastructure.