One of the building blocks of cloud-native application development is the API. By providing APIs to services, cloud applications can provide common backends to many applications across many platforms.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Premium V2 tier of Azure API Management, designed to support enterprise-wide API ecosystems with high volume, performance and network isolation.

Take advantage of Azure Functions to run small pieces of code that can be triggered by events in the Azure cloud. Azure Functions is the serverless compute offering in the Microsoft Azure cloud.

Azure Functions get you beyond the traditional client/server approach to app creation, right into the cloud. Let’s first look at triggers. Azure Functions is another evolution of Platform as a Service ...