Nir Mashkowski, Product Management Director for various Azure PaaS services, talks to us about his favorite - Functions! He shares his thoughts around using Functions as a 'Practical Microservices Platform' using some of the new features in the service. Some resources: Azure Functions Linux: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2017/11/15/functions-on-linux-preview/ Some success stories: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/case-studies/?service=app-service&term=Azure+Functions+ Hacks with startups and ISVs: https://microsoft.github.io/techcasestudies/#SearchPhraseText=Azure Functions Azure Functions Proxies: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2017/11/15/azure-functions-proxies-is-now-generally-available/ Contact the team on Twitter @AzureFunctions or @nirmsk Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode214.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/8943c94906/ Other updates: We announced the general availability of Azure App Service on Linux and Web App for Containers in September 2017. Today, we’re adding additional language runtime support for built-in images. You can now create a Linux web app by using .NET Core 2.0 as a runtime stack. From Network Watcher in Germany and AzGov Announcing the general availability of Azure Event Grid Azure ExpressRoute updates – New partnerships, monitoring and simplification ITSM Connector for Azure is now generally available Azure Search enterprise security: Data encryption and user-identity access control