Microsoft readies first developer preview of its new microservices Service Fabric
Microsoft will deliver a developer preview of its new Azure Service Fabric -- its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology for building microservices -- during the company's Build 2015 conference next week in San Francisco.
Service Fabric initially will be available for Microsoft's public cloud customers, but ultimately also will work on private and hosted clouds, too, said Mike Schutz, General Manager of Microsoft's Cloud Platform Product Marketing. The first target audience for the technology are startups and independent software vendors, he said.
When Microsoft originally launched Windows Azure, it was a PaaS-only cloud suited for new applications written from scratch. It wasn't until 2012 that Microsoft addded infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) support to Azure, allowing users to host existing Windows Server and/or Linux applications in virtual machines.
