While Windows Azure is designed first and foremost to appeal to .Net developers, Microsoft has been adding tools for those who want to work on cloud apps using PHP, Ruby and even -- gasp -- Java.

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As software development teams get larger, application packaging and deployment tasks become much harder. Handwritten scripts and low-level JDK utility calls just don't scale as teams grow, which is ...

Microsoft has made a Bicep-based set of Azure Verified Modules generally available for its Platform Landing Zone, a move aimed at giving customers a more modular, standardized way to deploy Azure ...