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

You can even use this technique to add any custom extensions you’ve written. Each function in your custom handler needs its own functions.json file in a folder with the same name as the function.

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.