Easily build real-time apps with WebSockets and Azure Web PubSub—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

Real-time application scenarios such as chat for streaming videos, interactive whiteboards for remote education, and IoT dashboards are becoming ever more popular. Businesses are keen to build such applications for enhanced user experiences and real-time interactions with end customers. Today, we are announcing the preview of the Azure Web PubSub service for building real-time web applications…

Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation

By Dustin Ward

The ability to run Kubernetes anywhere, whether in the cloud or on-premises, has been a high priority for Azure customers looking to rapidly innovate, with increasing customer focus on the benefits of container-optimized workloads and operating systems, lean application modernization, easier operations, and platform resiliency. To support this rapid evolution, we’re announcing that Microsoft has acquired…