Azure Weekly

Issue #246 - 13th October 2019

Among the announcements this week, we've been told that Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows are now generally available, a tool to address the "T" in ETL, and we've also been told about the 16 new built-in AAD roles - including Global reader, which are now available in preview.

We've been doing a lot with GitHub Actions recently - being religious users of Azure Pipelines, we were interested in the differences between the two. Here's a great article from Mike Larah: Comparing GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines: High-level concepts. Elsewhere, Simon Waight has written got in interesting solution as to how to deal with spam bots on Meetup.

I wanted to wrap up this editorial by congratulating Carmel Eve, who won Apprentice Engineer of the Year, and Ed Freeman who won Cloud Apprentice of the Year at the Computing Rising Stars Awards in London this week. If you've followed their blogs, it should be obvious why they each won their categories! All your colleagues at endjin are so proud of you! Carmel is also about to embark on a 3 week adventure to trek to Everest base camp - best of luck & safe travels!