Microsoft announces Service Fabric for highly scalable cloud services

http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/20/microsoft-announces-azure-service-fabric-a-new-framework-for-building-scalable-cloud-services/

by mwadams • 11 years ago

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tracker13• 11 years ago

The article itself contains no real information. Although it mentions Java specifically, it doesn't call out .Net (which I'm assuming this will support), or node.js (which MS has invested a lot of time making work in Azure).

There also doesn't seem to be a link to MS, as to how this is any different from Azure Cloud Services, other than probably only privately available to one's virtual network.

pjmlp• 11 years ago

Blog post here,

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/04/20/announcing-azure-...

More information will be disclosed at BUILD next week.

mwadams2• 11 years ago

It is a bit more interesting than that - the diagram in the image gives quite a bit away about what it supports; notice that there is both on prem and azure, windows and linux.

It does talk about MS's stack, BTW (which includes .NET): "this first version of Service Fabric will focus on Microsoft’s own technologies and Java applications"

tracker13• 11 years ago

But, that doesn't quite mean much to me... to me it sounds a lot like the "*.Net/.Net FOO" marketing from Microsoft around 2000-2002. The message is really muddled.

cwyers• 11 years ago

Another article by Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-readies-first-develop...

curiousDog• 11 years ago

So is this like the Microsoft equivalent of Zookeeper on steroids? Seems like I can get a naming service, leader election, messaging and potentially use this to build an AP or a CP system.

extc• 11 years ago

There's a widely used python library called fabric. Now Apple-owned Crashlytics is calling themselves Fabric. Now we have Service Fabric from Microsoft. Strange.

reubenbond• 11 years ago

To be fair, this has been around for many years within Microsoft under the name Windows Fabric. I'm not sure how old the python lib is, but the other one is much newer.

halviti• 11 years ago

Fabric has been a term used in networking for at least 20 years.

msnider• 11 years ago

SDK is now up (full disclosure - I work on the team). http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/service-fabric/

Microsoft announces Service Fabric for highly scalable cloud services

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