Azure Weekly
Issue #241 - 8th September 2019
It's a relatively quiet week this week - here are the main updates: the Form Recognizer now supports handwritten and mixed-mode, you can now create targeted budgets with filters and forecast costs in Azure Cost Management, and Microsoft has acquired Movere to help customers unlock cloud innovation with seamless migration tools. Elsewhere, Anna Thomas and David Peter Hansen have provided an overview of the new Docs on Azure SQL Database Machine Learning Services, and Cecil Philip has spoken about Leveraging the Dependency Injection support in Azure Functions with Fabio Cavalcante.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, Neta Haiby writes Beyond the printed form: Unlocking insights from documents with Form Recognizer
- Also on the Azure blog, Anne Yang writes that Microsoft and Qualcomm accelerate AI with Vision AI Developer Kit
- Gunnar Peipman (@gpeipman) explains how to Create thumbnails using Azure Cognitive Services
🔎 Analytics
- On Channel 9, Qun Ying (@yingquncn) talks about Anomaly detection on streaming data using Azure Databricks
🖥️ Compute
- Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) writes Understanding Azure Durable Functions - Part 11: The Asynchronous Human Interaction Pattern
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains How to Save Money on Azure using Azure Reservations
- The Azure updates team highlights that M-series virtual machines VMs are now generally available in the France Central region
- Isaac Levin (@isaac2004) explains how to Update My Blog Via Email with Azure Functions
- On Channel 9, Cecil Phillip (@cecilphillip) talks about Leveraging the Dependency Injection support in Azure Functions with Fabio Cavalcante
🗄️ Databases
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) provides Azure Cosmos DB Intro
- The Azure updates team writes that Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Now Available in Additional 18 Regions, Cross-region read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL are now available, Cross-region read replicas in Azure Database for MySQL are now available and highlight that Azure SQL Database Instance pools are now in preview
- On Channel 9, Anna Thomas and David Peter Hansen provide an overview of the new Docs on Azure SQL Database Machine Learning Services
- Jeremy Lindsay (@jeremylindsayni) describes Azure Cache as a session data store in C# and MVC
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jordan Matthiesen (@JMatthiesen) highlights that Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3 Preview 3, now available
- Mark Wilson-Thomas (@MarkPavWT) talks about Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!
- Jun Han (@formulahendry) provides the Azure IoT Tools August Update: IoT Plug and Play tooling public preview and more!
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Jenny Jiang writes about Visual Studio Code: Develop PySpark jobs for SQL Server 2019 Big Data Clusters
- Also on Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Christine Alford (@heyalford) covers the Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 43
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) provides an Azure Exam Study Guide and discusses Learning Azure, becoming an MVP, failure and more
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains How to Prepare and Pass a Microsoft Azure Exam
- The Azure updates team writes that We're retiring v1.x of the JavaScript SDK for Azure Cosmos DB, on August 30, 2020
- On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 294 - Microsoft for Startups
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 222 - Get started with Azure App Configuration for your ASP.NET Core app
- Kumar Allamraju (@kumarallamraju) posts Tip 223 - Azure REST APIs with Postman
🔩 DevOps
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) walks through Setting up DevOps Project for Azure IoT Edge application
- The Azure updates team highlights that Azure Lab Services has an updated UI experience for students, writes that Azure DevTest Labs now integrates with Azure Bastion and summarizes the Updates to Azure DevOps and App Service improvements
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Martin Woodward (@martinwoodward) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.08.30
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) covers Azure DevOps Pipelines Refactoring Techniques
- Jeremy Lindsay (@jeremylindsayni) walks through Everything as Code with Azure DevOps Pipelines: C#, ARM, and YAML: Part 4, Deploying an ARM template to create an Azure App Service with code
- On Channel 9, Abel Wang (@AbelSquidHead) talks about Taking Advantage of the Azure DevOps Wiki as a Developer with Dipendra Namdeo
- On the .NET Curry blog, Subodh Sohoni (@subodhsohoni) discusses Using Secrets in Azure Pipelines
🔌 Integration
- Antariksh Mistry writes about Logic App / On-Premise SQL connectivity with & without Integration Service Environment (ISE) – Part 2
- On Channel 9, Cale Teeter (@Windozer) talks about Generating Web Services from Smart Contracts Based on Logic Apps, Flows, and Azure Functions with Chris Segura
💡 Internet of Things
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Tony Shakib (@TonyShakib) writes that Petrofac transforms large-scale construction with Azure IoT
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Azure Data Explorer for IoT Data Analytics with Manoj Raheja
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Julien Corioland (@jcorioland) writes about Terraform on Microsoft Azure - Part 1: Introduction and Part 2: Basics
- On the Azure blog, Rajani Janaki Ram explains how to Reduce disaster recovery time with Azure Site Recovery
- On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) provides the Azure Cost Management updates – August 2019
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) writes Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 4
- James van Den Berg explains How to make the Most out of Azure Advisor
- The Azure updates team writes that Monthly payment options are now available for Azure reservations and writes about Azure Blueprints—NIST SP 800-53 R4 blueprint release is now live
- Michael Jonsson (@Michael_Jonsson) covers Azure in the Enterprise- Penny Pinching
🎬 Media
- The Azure updates team highlights that Legacy media encoders are being retired on November 30, 2019
⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack
- The Azure updates team writes that Diagnostic log collection is now generally available for Azure Stack, highlights the Azure Stack integration with Azure Government Secret cloud and writes about the Retail solution patterns for hybrid applications
🚌 Migration
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Jeremy Winter writes that Microsoft acquires Movere to help customers unlock cloud innovation with seamless migration tools
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) explains how to Automate migration to SQL Managed Instance using Azure PowerShell and DbaTools
📱 Mobile
- On Channel 9, James Montemagno (@JamesMontemagno) talks about FreshMvvm: So Fresh So Clean - MVVM for Xamarin.Forms with Michael Ridland
📦 Storage
- Jessica Deen (@jldeen) describes How to setup Azure CDN with Azure Storage and allow Twitter Cards with images
- Sanganak - Authority blogs about Azure DevOps – Build and Release pipeline to Azure File Storage
🔗 Web
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about How to identify web app changes to triage and root cause live site issues with Catherine Wang
- Jessica Deen (@jldeen) delves into Ghost: Migration lock was never released or currently a migration is running (Fix!)