Azure Weekly

Issue #260 - 2nd February 2020

This week Microsoft announced their Q2 earning: commercial cloud hits $50 billion annual run rate, with Azure revenue up 62%. Impressive numbers indeed.

Last year endjin spent 12 weeks building an Azure solution to help process over 1.5B rows of data to display to the user in less then 3 seconds. This was powered by the incredibly powerful, yet often overlooked Azure Analysis Services. James Broome, Director of Engineering, is writing an 8 part series on this service. The first two were published this week: 8 reasons why you might want to integrate into a custom application and Integration options using .NET, REST APIs and PowerShell.

We've also released a detailed, 37 minute step-by-step customer propensity experiment with Azure Machine Learning Studio video by Ed Freeman (@edfreeman_) on the endjin YouTube channel. It's a great real world example, guiding you through each step and explaining each concept. There's a reason why Ed won the National Computing Rising "Cloud Apprentice" award 2019!

Other highlights this week include Jason Roberts (@robertsjason) blogged about Creating Azure Functions with Function Monkey, and Azure MVP Callon Campbell (@flying_maverick) highlights the Azure Spring Clean 2020 online community event.

Two other articles that caught my attention were Azure Data Factory is now available in South Africa North and Roelf Zomerman's detailed post on Highly Available Firewalls and Proxies in Azure - which contains lots of great examples.