Microsoft announced general availability of Azure Service Fabric — its microservices application platform for the cloud. The technology has actually been in use on Microsoft’s internal infrastructure for the past five years and is currently powering a range of services including Azure SQL Databases, Azure DocumentDB, Intune, Cortana and Skype for Business.
Azure Service Fabric as a service handles application lifecycle management for simplified application scaling and resiliency. Microsoft Visual Studio now provides seamless integration with Service Fabric. This simplifies coding and deployment from the developer’s local machine onto Azure with streamlined provisioning of microservices.
Microsoft also announced previews of Service Fabric for Windows Server, enabling deploying on-premises and other cloud. The company is also working on Service Fabric for Linux and Java APIs. Microsoft noted that it plans to open-source the programming frameworks of Service Fabric for Linux later this year.
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