Microsoft Announces Azure Service Fabric, A Next-Gen Platform-As-A-Service Technology

Last month Microsoft announced Azure App Service for developers who need to create enterprise-grade web and mobile app experiences. App Service provides a complete platform as a service solution that enables you to deploy and elastically scale applications in the cloud, and seamlessly integrate them with on-premises resources and SaaS based applications. Today, they are announcing Azure Service Fabric – that provides a high control platform enables developers and ISVs to build cloud services with a high degree of scalability and customization.

Service Fabric offers the following benefits:

• It supports creating both stateless and stateful microservices – an architectural approach where complex applications are composed of small, independently versioned services – to power the most complex, low-latency, data-intensive scenarios and scale them into the cloud.
• Provides the benefits of orchestration and automation for microservices with new levels of app awareness and insight.
• Solves hard distributed systems problems like state management and provides application lifecycle management capabilities so developers don’t have to re-architect their applications as usage grows.
• Includes Visual Studio tooling as well as command line support, which enables developers to quickly and easily build, test, debug, deploy and update their Service Fabric applications on single-box deployments, test deployments and production deployments.

Azure Service Fabric is the foundational technology upon which Microsoft runs their Azure core infrastructure and also powers services like Skype for Business, InTune, Event Hubs, DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database (across more than 1.4 million customer databases) and Bing Cortana – which can scale to process more than 500 million evaluations per second.

Read more about it here.