Azure Weekly
Issue #248 - 27th October 2019
This week, Microsoft has become the first cloud with a fully managed, first-party service to ingest, persist, and manage healthcare data in the native FHIR format, providing "a turnkey platform to provision a cloud-based FHIR service in just minutes and begin securely managing PHI data in Azure". We've also been told about the new Azure Repos app for Microsoft Teams, helping you to monitor your repos and branches within Teams channels.
Elsewhere this week, Chris Noring has written about How YOU can use Docker to manage deployments in the Cloud, and Matt Soucoup has used Bing, Azure functions and Xamarin in the Inform Me (Bing News API) episode on Partly Cloudy.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Azure blog, Naomi Lim and Tina Coll tell us to Start building with Azure Cognitive Services for free
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) provides an Azure Bot Service Intro
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Visual Alerts with Custom Vision and IoT with Anna S. Roth
🔎 Analytics
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov provides an Azure Data Factory Until Activity Example
- On the SQL Server Blog, Anshul Rampal writes Microsoft Azure Data loves PASS Summit 2019!
🖥️ Compute
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) explains How to manage Azure VMs with Windows Admin Center
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Marc Mercuri (@marcmercuri) introduces Corda Enterprise on Azure Blockchain Service
- The Azure updates team highlights the Azure Service Fabric 6.5 fifth refresh release and highlights the Virtual Machines Dav3 Eav3 meter name changes
- On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) talks about Stateful Serverless with Durable Functions
- Also on the DEV site, Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan) covers Serverless circuit breakers with Durable Entities
- Chloe Condon (@ChloeCondon) walks through Trying to make FETCH (lol jk- a POST request) happen
- On the Serverless360 blog, Ezhilarasi Chezhiyan summarizes Azure Functions Live – October 2019
🚢 Containers
- On the DEV site, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) explains How YOU can use Docker to manage deployments in the Cloud
- On Channel 9, Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) presents The Cloud Native Show - LIVE: Ep. 1 with Glenn Condron
- Michael Crump (@mbcrump) posts Tip 230 - Part 3 - Use Azure Dev Spaces to collaborate with a team on Kubernetes
🗄️ Databases
- On Channel 9, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) talks with Mark Russinovich on future of Azure and databases and on the Azure SQL Database blog, explains how to Meet the Azure SQL team at Microsoft Ignite 2019
- On the Azure blog, Mine Tokus, Jamie Reding, Sadashivan Krishnamurthy, and Bob Ward describes how to Gain on OLTP price-performance with Azure SQL Virtual Machines
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, John Miller (@jmillerdev) tells us to Update Visual Studio for Mac for an improved Unity experience
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Larry Olson (@loarabia) writes about the October 2019 unified Azure SDK preview
- On Channel 9, Robert Green (@rogreen_ms) talks about Microsoft Graph
- Michael Jonsson (@Michael_Jonsson) writes about Azure and other clouds – ICON hunt
- Jen Stirrup (@jenstirrup) provides an Azure AZ101 Checklist of Materials
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) writes that We just launched an Azure Podcast
- On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) talks about Using React Error Boundaries With AppInsights
🔩 DevOps
- On the Daily Dot Net Tips blog, Abhijit Jana (@AbhijitJana) covers Setting up DevOps for Containerized Web Application using Azure DevOps Project
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Atin Bansal (@Atin_MS) announces the Azure Repos app for Microsoft Teams
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.10.18
- Dave Rendón describes how to Setup your Github repository on Azure Devops
🎭 Identity
- On .NET Rocks, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell covers Building Multi-Tenant Cloud Apps with Tom Kerkhove
🔌 Integration
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) covers Automating Enterprise Azure billing using Logic Apps for 0.03$/month
- On Code Project, Harsh Deep Gupta explains how to Restart Azure Web App Using Azure Logic App
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) introduces Schema Registry for Azure Messaging Services
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure updates team writes that Update 19.10 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation, explains that Changes are coming to the Azure Sphere SDK in the next release and highlights the IoT Hub device streams new preview regions
- On the DEV site, Dave Glover (@dglover) writes Part 1: Build a Kubernetes Intelligent Edge Cluster on Raspberry Pi
- On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about Retail Location Analytics with Azure Maps with ShiSh Shridhar
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure updates team shares a number of updates: Cost Management features available as of October 2019, Cost Management Preview Features October 2019, Azure Cost Management features in development—October 2019, Azure Monitor meter name changes, Azure Resource Graph—New join support functionality is now available and Process Automation Watcher meter ID changes
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) posts Azure Monitor Alert Series – Part 9
- Daniel Neumann (@neumanndaniel) describes how to Pin Terraform version in Azure Cloud Shell
- Stefan Roth (@stefanroth_net) writes about Azure Monitor – Install AKS Monitoring Grafana Dashboard With Azure AD Integration Using Helm
- On the Sharegate blog, Stephane Lapointe (@s_lapointe) shares a [Webinar recording] Getting started with Azure Resource Graph
- Also on the Sharegate blog, Antoine Jagueneau (@antoine_jag) describes How to start and stop virtual machines with Azure Automation
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) covers Deploying to Multiple Azure Subscriptions with Terraform
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Mayunk Jain (@mayunkj) writes that Microsoft Intune rolls out an improved, streamlined endpoint management administration experience
🚌 Migration
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Mirek Sztajno writes about T-SQL DDL support for Windows users migration from SQL Server databases to SQL Managed Instance
📱 Mobile
- The Azure updates team blogs about Azure Notification Hubs updates for iOS 13
- On Channel 9, Matt Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) talks about Inform Me (Bing News API) on Partly Cloudy
- On Code Project, Laurent Bouffioux blogs about Xamarin SKIASharp: Guide to MVVM
- Also on Channel 9, Maddy Leger (@maddyleger1) provides a Xamarin.Forms 101: Getting to Know your XAML Workspace - Visual Studio 2019 for Mac
🌐 Networking
- On Channel 9, Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) describes How to use Azure Bastion to connect securely to your Azure VMs with Ashish Jain
- The Azure updates team highlights the VNet Gateway meter name changes
🔐 Security
- Nicolas Bonnet (@nico_bonnet) talks about Security baselines in Intune
📦 Storage
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Mohammed Moinudheen provides an Azure Storage Explorer Overview
- On the Azure blog, Mine Tokus and Mike Emard describe how to Leverage Azure premium file shares for high availability of data
- The Azure updates team discusses the Batch API for Blob Storage
- Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) explains how to Migrate VHD Disks to Azure Disks – Direct-upload to Azure managed disks
🔗 Web
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Heather Jordan Cartwright (@hjc_microsoft) writes that the Azure API for FHIR moves to general availability
- K. Scott Allen (@OdeToCode) highlights Something to Know about gRPC in ASP.NET Core 3