Two cloud development services -- Azure Functions and Azure App Service -- are now available on Azure Stack, which brings cloud functionality to on-premises, hybrid implementations.

The tutorial is clear, stepping through building and testing an Azure function, using both the built-in Azure testing tools and sending a request via Curl from the desktop.

Microsoft answers AWS Lambda’s event-triggered serverless apps with Azure Functions Ron Miller 9:24 AM PDT · March 31, 2016 ...