Azure have open sourced their serverless engine, so you even have the option of ...

INTPenis · on June 10, 2019

What?! Please excuse my disbelief but I'm an old Linux veteran from the era when we typed M$. ;)

Where can I find this? I assume somewhere in the 1060 repos of https://github.com/Azure

I also assume that even though it's open source, it requires licensed MS Windows servers to run.

Still though, this is just another nail in the coffin of the OLD MS image.

GordonS · on June 10, 2019

It's MIT, and the host is built on .NET Core, so you can run it on Linux if you want:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-host

Under Satya Nadella the change in Microsoft has been little short of astonishing. A few years ago, I could understand the continued cynicism - but if anything the pace of change has only intensified.