Azure Weekly

Issue #206 - 6th January 2019

Happy New Year to all Azure Weekly Subscribers! After a short break over the festive, period we're back and ready to take on 2019!

In 2018 we published 49 issues and the readership grew by 30%. The amount of content being produced on a weekly basis shows that Azure has gained widespread adoption and the momentum from Microsoft has increased to an eye watering level. 

It was also an amazing year for endjin; we grew the team by 60% and doubled revenues. We built a number of modern data platforms using everything from Data Lake, to Cosmos DB, Azure Analysis Services, Data Science Virtual Machines and ML.NET. We finally had a Microsoft case study published about the fascinating work we did to help TalkTalk in their  journey to Azure including the Machine Learning powered Anomaly Detection platform and Data Lake reference archictecture we created. More on these topics soon! We've built a Data Governance Platform to help organisations manage their Data Lakes, which we hope to launch early in 2019, and we created an OpenAPI framework built on top of Azure Functions v2 for easy development of low cost, highly scalable Restful APIs, which we're hoping to open source soon. Amazingly, this only scratches the surface... In short, I really need to start blogging more in 2019!

We wanted to give back to the community in 2018 and sponsored "free to attend events" including dev:east, SQLGLA, SQL Saturday, dotnetsheff, DDD Scotland, DDD Wales, DDD South West, DDD East Anglia and DDD Reading, we also did talks at many of these events as well as .NET User Groups around the UK. We're hoping to do more of this in 2019 too.

I've spent a lot of the last 18 months researching large scale event processing from both a technology and an (water & telco) industry perspective. High-density reactive processing of events is going to be huge in this area; so I was suprised that the announcement that Microsoft open sourced Trill to deliver insights on a trillion events a day seemed to go unnoticed in the lull before Christmas. It is a fascinating example of how Microsoft is converting investments in pure research into innovative new cloud services.

Here are the (rather numerous) announcements and updates since our last issue:

The new year is a time for reflection, and there's a lot of 2018 to reflect upon! Here are a few blogs which showcase the highlights of the past year:

But it is also a time to look forward, so here's to another year of innovation in all things Azure... We're excited to discover what this year may bring!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

🔎 Analytics

🖥️ Compute

🚢 Containers

🗄️ Databases

🛠️ Developer Tools

🔩 DevOps

🎭 Identity

🔌 Integration

💡 Internet of Things

⚖️ Management and Governance

🎬 Media

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

🚌 Migration

📱 Mobile

🌐 Networking

🔐 Security

📦 Storage

🔗 Web

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