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Microsoft Build 2020 Highlights

Microsoft Build 2020, which took place on May 19- May 21, 2020, was a digital event that featured multiple sessions as well as a host of announcements aimed at developers. Simply put, Microsoft Build has returned to its roots with a focus on developers and courting the base for its various platforms including Windows, Azure, Power BI and Dynamics 365. Here’s everything you need to know about the10th edition of this annual conference from Mary Jo Foley and the teams at TechRepublic and ZDNet.

Microservices: The foundation of tomorrow's enterprise applications

Microservice architecture has the potential to pick up where service-oriented architecture (SOA) left off, making application development faster, more scalable, and more flexible. But as with SOA, some doubt microservices can live up to their promise. We help CIOs sort out the fact from fiction.