Azure Weekly
Issue #244 - 29th September 2019
This week, Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 has been released, including support for .NET Core 3.0 and TypeScript 3.6 and numerous updates for Python devs. We've also been told about the general availablilty of Azure Sentinel, and the new version of Azure Storage Explorer.
Also this week: Ben Coleman has released his ARM template visualizer to the Visual Studio marketplace, Jim Bennett has described how to Visualize locations and paths on a map with Azure Maps, and Scott Hanselman and Kirill Gavrylyuk have explained How to use Jupyter Notebook and Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB with Kirill Gavrylyuk.
On Tuesday and Wednesday it's the Microsoft Future Decoded event in London, and the whole of the endjin team will be present. We'll all be camped out in Costa, so do come along and say hi!
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, John 'JG' Chirapurath (@OriginalJGC) discusses Extending the power of Azure AI to business users
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Azure AI: Bringing artificial intelligence to every developer with Eric Boyd
- The Azure updates team highlights the Public Preview: Computer Vision releasing 'Read' text extraction feature in containers
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov provides an Azure Data Factory Lookup Activity Example and writes about Azure Data Factory Filter Activity and Debugging Capabilities
- The Azure updates team writes that Data Factory supports copying data into Azure Database for PostgreSQL and writes about Azure Analysis Services—Two new higher compute SKUs are now available
🖥️ Compute
- On Code Project, Duncan Edwards Jones (@Merrion) blogs about Event Sourcing on Azure Functions
- Tobias Zimmergren explains how to Send health pings from your Azure Function applications to ensure Scheduled triggers work as expected
- On the Azure blog, Shibli Subhani writes about SAP on Azure Architecture – Designing for performance and scalability
- Also on the Azure blog, Girish Bablani writes about 12 TB VMs, Expanded SAP partnership on Blockchain, Azure Monitor for SAP Solutions
- Also on the Azure blog, Michael Glaros (@SBSeagull) writes that The Marco Polo Network uses Azure and Corda blockchain to modernize trade finance
- On the DEV site, Jan Schenk (@jansche) provides the Serverless September Weekly Content Wrap-Up - Week 3
🚢 Containers
- On the DEV site, Abhishek Gupta (@abhi_tweeter) writes Learn about the Kubernetes components required to run stateful Kafka Streams applications and explains How to add persistent storage to your Kubernetes apps on Azure
- On the Premier Developer blog, Jason Venema (@jasonvenema) provides A Survey of Kubernetes Features in Azure
- Mark Heath (@mark_heath) talks about Containers versus Serverless for Microservices
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) describes Tillerless Helm with Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) writes about a AKS VMSS base image update script – multiple node pool support
🗄️ Databases
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about How to use Jupyter Notebook and Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB with Kirill Gavrylyuk
- Mikhail Shilkov (@MikhailShilkov) describes How To Build Globally Distributed Applications with Azure Cosmos DB and Pulumi
- On the Perficient blog, Josh Kostal writes about Local Testing using Gremlin on Azure Cosmos DB Emulator
- The Azure updates team provides some Azure Cosmos DB recommendations keep you on the right track and describes how to Register your SQL Server on Azure VMs self-installations with Resource Provider
- On the Azure blog, Hans Olav Norheim (@norheim) writes about Hot patching SQL Server Engine in Azure SQL Database
- Also on Channel 9, Anna Thomas (@AnalyticAnna) talks about How to switch an existing Azure SQL Database from Provisioned Compute to Serverless
- Also on Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) talks about How to use PowerShell in Azure Data Studio with Sydney Smith
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Carlos Robles (@dbamastery) covers Getting Started with SQL Server Azure Container Instances (ACI)
🛠️ Developer Tools
- The Azure updates team highlights that Azure CLI support for Azure HDInsight is now available
- On the Azure Citadel blog, Richard Cheney (@RichCheneyAzure) writes about the ARM Template Viewer extension
- Tobias Zimmergren also explains how to Visualize your templates with the Azure ARM Template Viewer extension for VS Code
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jacqueline Widdis (@JacqWiddis) writes about .NET Core Support and More in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 – Update Now!
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Jordan Matthiesen (@JMatthiesen) writes about Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.3
- On Channel 9, Cody Beyer (@cl_beyer) talks about Visual Studio for Mac Reborn: New Editors and New Experiences
- Robert Green (@rogreen_ms) talks about What's New in Visual Studio for Mac 2019 with Sayed Hashimi
- Sagar Shetty writes about Tracepoints: Debug with less clutter
- On the Visual Studio blog, Mads Kristensen (@mkristensen) tells us to Watch the latest Visual Studio extensibility videos
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Brandon Rohrer describes Configuring Terraform on Windows 10 Linux Sub-System
- On the IoT Dev blog, Renlong Tu explains how to Debug Azure IoT Edge C# Remote Linux Module Container with Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.3
- Chaoyi Yuan writes that Visual Studio Cloud Explorer now supports Azure IoT Hub Device Provisioning Service
- Xin Shi explains how to Convert your docker-compose Project to Azure IoT Edge Solution
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) provides some Tips on how to take Microsoft Azure Certification Exams
🔩 DevOps
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Dave McKinstry (@ponderdevops) writes that the Azure DevOps Demo Generator is now open source
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.09.20 and discusses Whats new in Azure DevOps Sprint 157
- Brian Bunke (@brianbunke) writes about a vCenter Simulator CI Pipeline
- On Channel 9, Abel Wang (@AbelSquidHead) talks about Deploying to on-premises Windows machines with Azure DevOps - Part 1 with Zachary Deptawa
🎭 Identity
- On the Perficient blog, Mark Dobberstein talks about Office 365 Tenant Migration and Active Directory Considerations
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Mayunk Jain and Priya Ravichandran discuss the Microsoft Intune support for Android Enterprise fully managed devices is now generally available
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure Maps Standard Transactions meter name changes, highlights the Azure Maps Standard S1 transactions meter ID changes and writes about the Azure Sphere Preview—Update 19.09 is now available for evaluation
- On the DEV site, Jim Bennett (@jimbobbennett) talks about Visualizing locations and paths on a map with Azure Maps
- Also on the DEV site, Dave Glover (@dglover) writes Raspberry Pi, Azure IoT Central, and Docker Container Debugging and writes Raspberry Pi, Debugging a Python Internet of Things Application
- On the Azure blog, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) writes about Navigating the intelligent edge: answers to top questions
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure blog, Saket Gupta describes how to Stay on top of best practices with Azure Advisor alerts
- Also on the Azure blog, Stephen Baron explains How to develop your service health alerting strategy
- Also on the Azure blog, Lily Kim writes that the New Azure Blueprint enables SWIFT CSP compliance on Azure
- The Azure updates team provides the Azure portal September 2019 feature update and writes about Extending the retirement date for Scheduler to December 31, 2019
- Marcel Zehner (@marcelzehner) writes about Azure Portal Sign-In Issues
- Julien Corioland (@jcorioland) writes about Terraform on Microsoft Azure - Part 6: Continuous Integration using Docker and Azure Pipeline
🌐 Networking
- Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) explains how to Deploy Azure Firewall
- Kumar Allamraju (@kumarallamraju) posts Tip 226 - How to enable Accelerated Networking in existing Azure Virtual Machines
🔐 Security
- The Azure updates team writes about Azure Security Center—Control container security recommendation using Azure Policy and highlights that 1-click remediation for security recommendations is now available
- On the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Ben Stegink and Scott Hoag (@msclouditpro) present Episode 144 – Acronym Soup with RMS, AIP, ATP, and ATA
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) writes Who accessed my Azure Key Vault?
- On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 297 - Tales from the field - KeyVault, with Matt Small
- Eldert Grootenboer (@egrootenboer) describes how to Reference Key Vault secret latest version
- On the Azure blog, Andrew Dapre and George Zinn announces that Microsoft and SWIFT extend partnership to make cloud native payments a reality
- On the Azure blog, Steve Dispensa (@dispensa) writes about the Azure Sentinel general availability: A modern SIEM reimagined in the cloud
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) describes Monitoring Office 365 tenants with Azure Sentinel
📦 Storage
- On the Azure blog, Raman Kumar introduces cost-effective increment snapshots of Azure managed disks in preview
- Also on the Azure blog, Catherine Wang writes about the New disk support capabilities in Azure Storage Explorer and announces Azure Storage Explorer 1.10.0
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure Premium SSD managed disks meter ID changes
- On the DEV site, Wassim Chegham (@manekinekko) introduces NoSQL Azure Table Storage for NestJS
- On the Azure podcast, The Azure podcast team (@AzurePodcast) presents Episode 298 - Storage HA/DR with Art Khlobystin
🔗 Web
- The Azure updates team provides an Azure API Management update—September 2019
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) discusses Azure Api Management using Okta to secure using OAuth 2.0
- Kunal Chandratre explains how to Improve Azure API Management performance by 10x through Caching
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) writes about Continuous Deployment using App Service Deployment Center
- On the DEV site, Yohan Lasorsa (@sinedied) explains how to Build your first serverless app with Angular, NestJS and Azure
- On Code Project, Quí Nguyễn NT provides a Code Example for SPA and Micro-Service on Azure