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!):

With much more to come!

Have a great festive period and a very Happy New Year! See you all in 2020!

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

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

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

🖥️ Compute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team explains how to Combine the Power of Video Indexer and Computer Vision

⚙️ Microsoft Azure Stack

On Microsoft Cloud Blogs, the Azure Team announces: Azure Stack HCI now running on HPE Edgeline EL8000

🚌 Migration

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

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

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

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

For the Azure Advent Calendar, Anthony Mashford (@anthonymashford) writes about Azure NetApp Files

🔗 Web

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

Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) describes how to Automatically Start and Stop WVD VMs with Azure Automation