Overall, Azure Deployment Environments can be a huge time savings, reduce deeply frustrating configuration errors, and allow coders to code and admins to admin. The service is free to Azure customers.

"You can now develop Python 3.6 apps to run on the cross-platform, open source Functions 2.0 runtime," said Daria Grigoriu of the Azure Functions team in an Aug. 19 blog post. "These can be published ...