Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language.

The evolution of Azure Functions Azure’s serverless elements are its Functions, easy-to-construct blocks of code that can be assembled into more complex platforms.

Support for Java and PowerShell has been added to the existing public preview for Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions, which now supports C#, JavaScript, Python, Java, and PowerShell.

Microsoft's two new video series target beginner developers interested in using Python for machine-learning programs.