Azure Weekly

Issue #222 - 28th April 2019

We're proud to be Snowflake partners here at endjin - we believe it'a a hugely powerful data warehousing and analytics tool. This week our very own Jess Panni has described how to create a Snowflake Connector for Azure Data Factory in a two part series. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Elsewhere, Siddhartha Chaturvedi has announced the beginning of the AI for Good developer challenge. You need to come up with an idea that uses AI for the greater good between now and the 26th June (this year!) to stand the chance to win thousands of dollars worth of Azure credits and some fancy gadgets.

Now for this week's announcements and updates:

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Azure blog, Siddhartha Chaturvedi (@siddhartha_c) writes about AI for Good: Developer challenge!
Also on the Azure blog, Anand Raman (@aram09) writes Dear Spark developers: Welcome to Azure Cognitive Services
On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) provides the AI, Machine Learning and Data Science Roundup: April 2019
Asma Khalid (@asmak) describes How to change workspace in Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio

🔎 Analytics

On the Azure blog, Rohan Kumar writes about the Spark + AI Summit - Developing for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge
Also on the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) describes the Governance setting for cache refreshes from Azure Analysis Services and on MSDN, writes that Future Analysis Services posts on Power BI blog
The Azure updates team highlights the Resource GUID changes for Event Hubs Dedicated Capacity Unit, writes that Azure HDInsight is now available in China East 2 and highlights the Changes to HDInsight cluster configuration access
On the endjin blog, Jess Panni (@JessPanni) describes how to create a Snowflake Connector for Azure Data Factory – Part 1 and Part 2

🖥️ Compute

On the Kloud blog, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) walks through Outputting data from an Azure Function to Power BI with PowerShell
The Azure updates team writes about the Service Fabric Mesh preview - spring update for features in development, write that Azure Batch updates now available and highlights the General availability: Azure Availability Zones in Japan East
On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag (@msclouditpro) covers Episode 122 – Saving Money on Compute in Azure
Also on Microsoft + Open Source, Rob Jahn And Dan Semedo describes Adding automated performance quality gates using Keptn Pitometer

🚢 Containers

On the Premier Developer blog, Monu Bambroo writes a couple of blogs in the AKS Series – Use Azure Storage Option as Persistent Volumes in AKS and Using Azure Dev Spaces with Visual Studio Kubernetes Tooling
On Code Project, Gunther Lenz and Shivakumar Gopalakrishnan cover the Operation and Maintenance of AKS Applications
Mark Heath (@mark_heath) describes Containerized Activities in Durable Workflows - Part 1 and Part 2

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure blog, Manish Kumar explains how to Optimize performance using Azure Database for PostgreSQL Recommendations
Also on the Azure blog, Nick Brown writes that Securing Azure SQL Databases with managed identities just got easier
On the Database Journal site, Marcin Policht writes about Importing Data into Azure SQL Database
On the Azure SQL Database blog, Mirek Sztajno covers Azure AD Service Principal authentication to SQL DB - Code Sample
Also on the Azure blog, Yashesvi Sharma writes that Azure SQL Data Warehouse reserved capacity and software plans now generally available
On the MSSQL Tips site, Ron L'Esteve describes how to Design and Manage Azure SQL Data Warehouse
On the Tallan blog, Lenni Lobel demystifies Demystifying the Multi-Model Capabilities in Azure Cosmos DB

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the Visual Studio blog, Paul Chapman highlights the Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 Preview 2
Also on the Visual Studio blog, Soojin Choi (@soojinchoi_) explains how to Build Visual Studio templates with tags, for efficient user search and grouping
On the Premier Developer blog, Wael Kdouh (@waelkdouh) explores How To Update Visual Studio 2019 Asp.Net Core Angular Project
On Channel 9, Robert Green and Amanda Silver talk about Visual Studio 2019
Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) blogs about dotnet-azure : A .NET Core global tool to deploy an application to Azure in one command
Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) talks about Using the Azure CLI for IaC
On the Azure blog, Jie Su provides 5 tips to get more out of Azure Stream Analytics Visual Studio Tools
On the MSSQL Tips site, Daniel Calbimonte provides some Study material for exam AZ-203 Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
Also on the Azure blog, Christine Alford (@heyalford) covers the Azure Marketplace new offers - Volume 35

🔩 DevOps

On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Anisha Pindoria (@anishapindoria) answers What's new in Azure DevOps Sprint 150? with Anand Guruswamy
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Edward Thomson (@ethomson) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.04.19 and announces Pull Requests with Rebase
On the Premier Developer blog, Candice Lai provides some Tips on Starting DevOps Projects
Also on the Premier Developer blog, Jafar Jaffery talks about Using Azure DevOps to Deploy Web Applications to Virtual Machines
On Channel 9, Abel Wang and Jeremy Likness talks about DevOps For ASP.NET Developers Pt.5 - Unit Testing On .NET
Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sachin Hridayraj writes that Azure DevOps Labs now includes Azure DevOps Server 2019 VM and labs

🎭 Identity

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Mayunk Jain writes that Microsoft Edge on iOS and Android now supports conditional access and single sign-on
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Andreas Helland writes about Advanced Home Realm Discovery in Azure AD B2C
Kunal Chandratre (@kunalchandratre) explains How to create service principal or App registration in Azure AD
On Microsoft Cloud Show, Andrew Connell and Chris Johnson (@mscloudshow) present Episode 299 | Microsoft Graph Data Connect with Tyler Lenig

🔌 Integration

Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) asks Should I use Logic Apps or Azure Functions?
On the Serverless360 blog, Steef-Jan Wiggers (@SteefJan) discusses the Azure Logic Apps Life Cycle – The Big Picture
The Azure updates team highlights the Service Bus US Government resource GUID and naming impacts and highlights the Service Bus Standard Base Unit name change

💡 Internet of Things

On the Azure blog, Diego Tamburini (@DiegoTamburini) describes how to Connect IIoT data from disparate systems to unlock manufacturing insights
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) presents Meet our Azure IoT partners: Accenture with Mukund Ghangurde
The Azure updates team writes that Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available in Retail feed

⚖️ Management and Governance

On the Azure blog, Adam Wise writes that Azure Cost Management now generally available for Pay-As-You-Go customers
Also on the Azure blog, Sonia Gupta (@soniagupta690) announces the Azure Backup support to move Recovery Services vaults
Also on the Azure blog, Kaitlyn Corazao explains how to Customize your Azure best practice recommendations in Azure Advisor
The Azure updates team highlights a number of updates: General Availability: New Azure Monitor alerts experience available in Azure Government, General Availability: Azure Monitor for containers is now available in Azure China, Public Preview: Resource Change History API, Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 33 (February 2019), Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 34 (Feb 2019), Azure Site Recovery: Update Rollup 35 (March 2019) and Azure reservations: New experience and APIs for purchasing reservations
On Microsoft + Open Source, Mark Gray (@markg_msft) talks about What's new in the latest release: Terraform Azure provider v1.24.0 and v1.25.0
Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains how to Manage Office 365 Exchange Online from Cloud Shell
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon (@vplauzon) walks through Deploying an ARM template hierarchy
Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 194 - Azure Automation with Windows Machine with PowerShell
On the Perficient blog, Rohit Jadhav talks about Deploying VM Updates with Azure Update Management

🚌 Migration

On the Azure blog, Bryan McCutchan writes about Migrating SAP applications to Azure: Introduction and our partnership with SAP
Also on the Azure blog, Will Bratton writes about Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 1
On the Azure blog, Marshal Whatley writes about Best practices in migrating SAP applications to Azure – part 2

📱 Mobile

Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) describes Getting started with Xamarin in Visual Studio 2019
On the Xamarin blog, Jayme Singleton (@JaymeSingleton1) highlights the Customer Showcase: Aggreko
Also on the Xamarin blog, Jon Douglas (@_JonDouglas) write about Shrinking Your Android App Size
Also on the Xamarin blog, Paul Dipietro (@paul_dipietro) blogs about Xamarin.Forms 4.0 CollectionView Challenge
On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about Geocoding (Xamarin.Essentials API of the Week) and talks about Making Mobile Apps Accessible with Alexandre Costa
On the Azure blog, John M. Wargo (@johnwargo) blogs about Azure Notification Hubs and Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging Migration

🌐 Networking

The Azure updates team highlights the Public Preview: Microsoft adds full IPv6 support for Azure VNets and highlights the Virtual WAN Scale Unit name changes

🔐 Security

On the Azure blog, Yossi Weizman talks about Detecting threats targeting containers with Azure Security Center
On Code Project, Gaston Verelst (@DotNetPro) describes How to use Microsoft Azure Key Vault

📦 Storage

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) describes how to Sync File Servers with Azure File Sync in Windows Admin Center

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team provides the Azure API Management update April 19
On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about Getting started with Azure App Configuration with Jimmy Campbell