Azure Weekly

Issue #10 - 24th January 2015

This week, a report by Forbes describes Azure's emergence as a competitor to AWS. Tech Target also covers Azure's rapid feature growth.

There's good news for organisations wanting to test out Azure's Hybrid Integration tool ExpressRoute this week. It's available for free until the end of June, with complementary offers from partners including BT, Verizon and AT&T. For developers, there's the announcement of  a new Application Insights extension for Azure Websites, and support for SQL parameterization in the DocumentDB REST API and SDKs.

In community news, Magnus Martensson issues a general invite to the Global Azure Bootcamp on April 25, a world-wide, community-lead day of events. If you have an event you'd like to promote, let us know! 

For anyone wanting to catch up on recent Azure services and developments, Bruno Terkaly has written an A-Z of the entire Azure ecosystem.

⚖️ Management and Governance

🖥️ Compute

🌐 Networking

💡 Internet of Things

  • Byron Tardif announces a new Application Insights extension for Azure Websites, which lets you monitor Azure Website application dependencies such as calls to a SQL dependency. Application Insights is a preview service which provides availability, usage and performance monitoring and alerts. A step by step guide to enabling the extension is available on the visual studio blog.

  • On Channel 9, there are two videos with Scott Hanselman and Galin Iliev on the topic of Azure Websites Testing in Production. Part 1 is an introduction to the service and covers altering relative traffic volumes between sites. Part 2 covers automating Testing in Production to control how much traffic is routed to each slot.  

  • A useful Visual Studio Extension we've come across this week from Mads Kristensen - open websites from Azure Websites.

  • Wade Wegner has documented the steps for building and committing a GoLang app into an Azure website. Tools and instructions are available on GitHub.

  • The Mobile Services team is hiring devs and PMs.

  • Dan Thyer writes about creating his own IoT home automation system.

⚙️ Data and Analytics

📦 Storage

🎬 Media

⚙️ Hybrid Integration

  • Sameer Sankaran announces a promotion for Azure ExpressRoute - the service is available free from 1 January to 30 June 2015. Partners including BT, Verizon and AT&T have complementary offers.

⚙️ Identity and Access Management

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