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Welcome to the Azure Up blog.    It’s a great time to be a software engineer.  The cloud has opened all kinds of new opportunities.  The Azure platform is one of the leading cloud platforms.  Although it is Microsoft's cloud it is an open platform that supports a wide range of open source technologies.  On this blog we will explore this platform using .NET,  Python and Java. 

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