Microsoft's Azure cloud service is blending yet more PaaS and IaaS services with its new Service Fabric developer framework. When you build cloud services, they need to be built as scalable, ...

Azure Service Fabric, Microsoft's PaaS solution for microservices, provides a highly flexible framework for building cloud-scale applications. Here's how to take advantage of it If there’s one thing ...

The Azure VM Agent enables VMs to communicate with Azure’s underlying Fabric Controller via the virtual public IP 168.63.129.16. However, when VMs are migrated from on-premises or deployed from custom ...

Cloud services have to run all the time, but they also need regular updates – and too often, that's when problems happen. "One of the challenges is how do I update microservices while I keep my ...