Azure Weekly Issue 255: 15th December 2019
This is going to be the final issue of 2019 (and the decade)!. This week we have announced the exciting news that Carmel and Jess will be Speaking at NDC London about Combatting illegal fishing with Machine Learning and Azure!. Greg Suttie has also provided an Azure Advent Calendar – Week 1 recap
And here is a list of all of the content so far (lots of great stuff to keep us occupied over the holiday period!):
- Azure Data Factory
- AKS and Pod Identity
- AKS montoring with Prometheus
- Azure Data Studio
- Getting started with Azure SQL Serverless
- Azure API Management
- Azure Logic Apps
- Azure multi-factor authentication
- Azure Arc for servers
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Azure Governance
- Azure Service Health
- Azure Lighthouse
- Azure Blueprints
- Azure Virtual Machine and Storage cost saving tips
- Use the Import Server Assessment Option on Azure Migrate
- Azure Network Nutcracker
- Azure Migrate
- Azure Key Vault Secrets
- Azure Sentinel
- Azure NetApp Files
- Azure Web Apps
- Why you need to take a look at Azure Site Recovery
- Azure Front Door
- Building a secure data solution using Azure Data Lake Store (Gen2)
With much more to come!
Have a great festive period and a very Happy New Year! See you all in 2020!
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text
- On the endjin blog, Carmel Eve (@Carmel_Eve) talks about Speaking at NDC London: Combatting illegal fishing with Machine Learning and Azure
- On the DEV site, Ari Bornstein (@pythiccoder) describes How Coalitions Can Help Detect Bias In AI
- On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Cognitive Services
- On the Azure Blog, The Azure updates team highlights the Improvements and language models updates to Custom Translator
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Dwayne Natwick (@DwayneNcloud) writes about Azure Bots and LUIS
- On the DEV site, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) writes about How you can learn Language Analysis using AI services in the Cloud and JavaScript
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about Putting Form Recognizer on test - Extract labels from flight tickets (Cognitive Services)
Analytics
Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, .NET for Apache Spark, R Server for HDInsight
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) talks about Azure Synapse Analytics & Power BI performance
- On ZDNet, Larry Dignan talks about Informatica aims to better track data lineage with AI-powered data catalog
- Andy Leonard (@AndyLeonard) gives a Webinar about Azure Data Factory Execution Patterns
- Adam Marczak (@MarczakIO) gives a demo of Azure Analysis Services
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Danni Juhl (@DanniJuhl) writes about Azure Data Factory
Blockchain
Covering: Azure Blockchain Service, Azure Blockchain Tokens, Azure Blockchain Workbench
Compute
Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) discusses Cloud Maturity Level - IaaS vs PaaS and SaaS
- Martin Brandl (@martin_jib) discusses How and why you should upgrade your .NET Azure Functions to 3.0
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Functions 3.0 go-live release is now available
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team blogs about Introducing maintenance control for platform updates
- On the DEV site, Christian Nwamba covers Caching Serverless Responses
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- The Azure updates team announces Azure Red Hat OpenShift region expansion
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Ned Bellavance (@Ned1313) writes about AKS and Pod Identity
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Adil Touati (@adiltouati) writes about AKS montoring with Prometheus
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about AKS Virtual Nodes
- On the DragonSpears blog, David Henry covers Azure Container Orchestration 101: Azure Web Apps vs ACI vs AKS
Databases
Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Database for MySQL support for MySQL 8.0 is now available
- On the DEV site, Chris Noring (@chris_noring) explains how to Learn Serverless Database trigger in JavaScript, CosmosDB + Slack
- On Channel 9, Tim Sander talks about How to use composite indexes and correlated subqueries with Azure Cosmos DB
- Anupama Natarajan (@shantha05) describes Azure SQL Database Serverless and discusses Azure SQL Indexer - Azure Cognitive Search Indexer for Azure SQL Database
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Mikey Bronowski (@MikeyBronowski) writes about Azure Data Studio
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Stas Lebedenko (@angry_stas) writes about Getting started with Azure SQL Serverless
Developer Tools
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
- On the DEV site, John Papa (@John_Papa) explains how to Automate Your Replies to GitHub Issues with Serverless
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) blogs about Building REST API with Python, Flask and Azure SQL
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Morgan Mitchell (@livelovegeek) gives us The DevDecember Weekly Roundup: Week 1
- Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) discuss their Favorite tools for Azure professionals and developers
- Gregor Suttie (@gregor_suttie) gives a Azure Advent Calendar – Week 1 recap
DevOps
Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations
- Martin Brandl (@martin_jib) blogs about Deploying to Azure using GitHub Actions
- The Azure updates team announces that you can Use GitHub Actions to trigger a run in Azure Pipelines
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Rajesh Ramamurthy highlights Policy support to restrict creating new Azure DevOps organizations
- Also on the Microsoft DevOps blog, Sasha Rosenbaum (@DivineOps) lists the Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.12.06 and talks about Whats new in Azure DevOps Sprint 161
- On the Premier Developer blog, Chris Westbrook describes Using Azure DevOps Artifact as Upstream from another Organization
- Sacha Barber discusses Azure DevOps : Setting up and pushing nuget packages
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Simon Foster (@funkysi1701) discusses Azure DevOps Pipelines
Hybrid
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
- For Azure Advent Calendar, Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) bogs about Azure Arc for servers
- James van Den Berg says that Windows Admin Center Rocks for Managing Hybrid DataCenters
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- The Azure updates team announcs that Proximity placement groups are now available and Azure Data Factory supports preserving metadata during file copy
- On the Azure SQL Database blog, Mirek Sztajno describes Troubleshooting problems related to Azure AD authentication with Azure SQL DB and DW
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Shabaz Darr (@ShabazDarr) writes about Azure multi-factor authentication
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- The Azure updates team announces that New Azure PowerShell module is available in preview, Azure Lighthouse receives 2019 CRN Tech Innovator Award and Azure Service Fabric 7.0 is now available
- On the DEV site, Jasmine Greenaway (@paladique) explains how to Create a website with daily deals from Twitter using Logic Apps and Blob Storage
- Also on the DEV site, Shayne Boyer (@spboyer) asks: Where does serverless fit in cloud native apps?
- On the Serverless360 blog, Priya Latha talks about Azure Service Bus Dead-Letter Queues
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Simon Waight (@simonwaight) writes about Azure Logic Apps
- Also for the Azure Advent Calendar, Amine Charot (@AmineCharot) writes about Azure API Management
- Also on the DEV site, Em Lazer-Walker talks about Making a weird GIF wall using Azure Functions and SignalR
- Gyanendra Kumar Gautam gives his Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, John Wargo discusses Using Azure Notification Hubs in Apache Cordova and Ionic Apps
Internet of Things
Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services
- On the Azure blog, Tony Shakib (@TonyShakib) describes how Microsoft partner ANSYS extends ability of Azure Digital Twins platform
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team describes an Azure Sphere guardian module which simplifies & secures brownfield IoT
- On Channel 9, Jim Bennett brings us IoT is Fun for Everyone: Ugly Sweater Edition
- Also on Channel 9, Mike Hall talks about Azure Sphere for Developers
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Sphere update 19.11 is now available via retail feed
Management and Governance
Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Sceduler
- Stanislav Zhelyazkov (@StanZhelyazkov) writes about how to Lower Log Analytics Cost with Serverless
- Anupama Natarajan (@shantha05) discusses Azure Advisor
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Jack Tracey (@Jack_Ref) writes about Azure Governance, Wim Matthyssen discusses Azure Service Health, Martin Ehrnst blogs about Azure Lighthouse and Wesley Haakman describes Azure Blueprints
- Also for the Azure Advent Calendar, Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) writes about Azure Virtual Machine and Storage cost saving tips
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team covers Building Xbox game streaming with Site Reliability best practices
- On the Azure blog, Varun Shandilya announces the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
- On the Codit blog, Toon Vanhoutte (@ToonVanhoutte) talks about how to Control your Azure costs through budget alerts
- On the Serverless360 blog, Sowndarya Balakrishnan explains how to use Live Dashboard for Azure Serverless Applications
- On the Azure blog, Ziv Rafalovich (@zivraf) is Announcing the General Availability of Proximity Placement Groups
- On the MSSQL Tips site, Fikrat Azizov talks about Run SSIS Packages with Azure Data Factory in a Cost Effective Way
- Tomas Restrepo (@tomasrestrepo) discusses Azure File Storage and Billing Transparency
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) walks through Publishing Static Website to Azure Blob Storage via GitHub Actions
Media
Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team explains how to Combine the Power of Video Indexer and Computer Vision
Microsoft Azure Stack
Covering: Azure Stack
- On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team announces: Azure Stack HCI now running on HPE Edgeline EL8000
Mixed Reality
Covering: Kinect DK, Remote rendering, Spatial anchors
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) writes about Azure Migrate
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) also covers how to Use the Import Server Assessment Option on Azure Migrate
- The Azure updates team announces that Azure Migrate—Agentless dependency analysis is now available in preview and on the Azure blog, and that Microsoft plans to establish new cloud datacenter region in Qatar
- On the Azure podcast, Evan Basalik brings us Episode 307 - It's got to be Azure
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
- Matthew Soucoup (@CodeMillMatt) gives us: Santa Talk - An Intelligent Serverless Xamarin App
- On Channel 9, Maddy Leger (@MaddyLeger1) speaks about Xamarin.Forms 101: Control Templates
Networking
Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Joe Carlyle (@wedoAzure) gives us a Azure Network Nutcracker
- The Azure updates team announces Web Application Firewall—New bot protection rule now in preview and and that Azure Private Link support in AKS now in preview
- On Channel 9, Anavi Nahar (@AnaviNahar) talks about How to connect virtual networks across Azure regions with Azure Global VNet peering
- Also on Microsoft Cloud Blogs, Yousef Khalidi (@YousefkAzure) discusses how Networking enables the new world of Edge and 5G Computing
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Frans Lytzen (@flytzen) writes about Azure Key Vault Secrets and Chris Gill discusses Azure Sentinel
- Thuan Nguyen walks through Working with Azure Security Center Alert from Azure Sentinel
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) blogs about Azure Functions and secure Configuration with built-in integration to Azure Key Vault
Storage
Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Anthony Mashford (@anthonymashford) writes about Azure NetApp Files
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- For the Azure Advent Calendar, Matt Wharton (@electricinca) discusses Why you need to take a look at Azure Site Recovery, Alan Kinane writes about Azure Web Apps and Jake Walsh describes Azure Front Door
- On the DEV site, Jason Hand explains how to Build a Serverless Status Page with Azure Functions, SignalR, and Static HTML
Windows Virtual Desktop
Covering: Windows Virtual Desktop
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) describes how to Automatically Start and Stop WVD VMs with Azure Automation
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