You don't need to be a software developer to quickly create an API that will retrieve the information you need. One of the recent announcements at the SQLBits conference in Wales in March was the ...

One of the building blocks of cloud-native application development is the API. By providing APIs to services, cloud applications can provide common backends to many applications across many platforms.

Microsoft launched the Azure service just over eight years ago in a bid to play catchup with Amazon Web Services. And it has succeeded. Azure is now the No. 2 cloud service, behind AWS. Just how far ...