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.

Microsoft's effort to streamline event handling on its cloud platform, Azure Event Grid, has now reached its general availability phase. Available in 10 of Azure's regions, with more coming soon.

Microsoft is making a big bet on serverless technologies this year, and it continued that push Wednesday with the release of Azure Event Grid, a new service for managing serverless app development.