Azure Weekly

Issue #264 - 1st March 2020

There have been a couple of announcements this week from the Azure updates team: Active Directory authentication support on Azure Files is now in preview and you can now drill into the costs for your resources!

The retirement of a few different services has been announced:

We've had an exciting week here at endjin as Carmel (@Carmel_Eve) and Jess (@JessPanni) presented at Azure Oxford! If you missed out, fear not, as a recording of their NDC London session on the same topic is now available.

And on the endjin blog, James has written a great post about Azure Analysis Services on How to query all the measures in a model from .NET, and Jon (@jon_george1 discusses Exposing legacy batch processing code online using Azure Durable Functions, API Management and Kubernetes.

We have some very big announcements next week around exciting work we've been doing in the Cloud Native space for the last 8 months. I can't wait to share what we've been working on. It's really very cool.

⚙️ AI + Machine Learning

On the Revolution Analytics blog, David Smith (@revodavid) talks about MLOPS for R with Azure Machine Learning
On Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) investigates Microsoft France: Surfrider EU and the Plastic Origins Project
Also on Channel 9, Seth Juarez (@sethjuarez) talks about Data Science, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Machine Learning in the Cloud (Part 3 of 4)
The Azure updates team announces that Azure Cognitive Services Computer Vision Read API v3.0 is now in preview
The Azure updates team writes about Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021

🔎 Analytics

On the endjin blog, James Broome (@broomej) talks about Azure Analysis Services – How to query all the measures in a model from .NET

⚙️ Blockchain

On Channel 9, Mike Walker and David Havera bring us the first part in their Digital ecosystems and GE's journey - Block Talk

🖥️ Compute

On the Azure blog, Evan Burness (@evanburness) describes how Azure HBv2 Virtual Machines eclipse 80,000 cores for MPI HPC
The Azure updates team announces that A8 – A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on March 1, 2021
On Code Project, Shweta Lodha blogs about Utilizing Azure Blob and WebJob to Convert Excel Files to Flat File Format
Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) describes Handling Huge Traffic Spikes with Azure Functions and Cloudflare

🚢 Containers

On the Kloud blog, Santhosh Kumar writes about How-To deploy Docker images to Azure Kubernetes Services AKS
Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) describes How to set up Docker within Windows System for Linux WSL2 on Windows 10
Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) are Talking about securing your Azure Container Registry ACR
On the Azure blog, Fardau van Neerden discusses Burst 4K encoding on Azure Kubernetes Service

🗄️ Databases

On the Azure SQL Database blog, Kate Smith (@aKateSmithSQL) writes about Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database – What and Why, Fundamental Concepts for Elastic Jobs in Azure SQL Database and walks through Creating an Elastic Jobs Agent, Credentials, and Jobs for Azure SQL Database in PowerShell
On medium, Davide Mauri (@mauridb) writes about 10K Request per Second: a REST API with Azure SQL, Dapper and JSON
On Channel 9, Vicky Harp talks about How to use Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Data Studio

🛠️ Developer Tools

On the DEV site, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) talks about Use Blazor and C# to host a static website in Azure Storage
On Channel 9, Jon Galloway asks What is Visual Studio for Mac?, walks through how to Install Visual Studio for Mac and run C#, talks about Visual Studio for Mac .NET productivity and finally about Visual Studio for Mac - How to Get Involved
Also on Channel 9, Kayla Cinnamon talks about Windows Terminal: the secret to command line happiness Tabs vs Spaces
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) describes the Top 5 VS Code extensions for Azure developers

🔩 DevOps

On the DEV site, Aaron Powell (@slace) discusses Using GitHub Actions With Azure Functions
Pixel Robots. talks about Use Trivy and Azure DevOps to scan container images for Vulnerabilities
On Channel 9, April Edwards talks about Terraform using GitHub Actions
Also on Channel 9, Robert Green and Aaron Powell discuss the GitHub Actions Visual Studio Toolbox
On the Whizlabs blog, Neeru Jain lists the Top 25 Azure DevOps Interview Questions

🧬 Hybrid

Roelf Zomerman describes Azure Extended network ("L2" – ish connections)

🎭 Identity

On the Azure blog, Yuemin Lu announces the Preview of Active Directory authentication support on Azure Files
The Azure updates team announces that they are Retiring Azure AD Domain Services classic VNET support on March 1, 2023
On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Andreas Helland blogs about “Magic” SignIn & Invitation Mails in Azure AD B2C
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about Demystifying system-assigned managed identity and user-assigned managed identity for Azure Resources

🔌 Integration

On Code Project, Venkatesh Subbarao explains how to Create, Deploy Webjobs and Schedule Using Azure Logic Apps

💡 Internet of Things

On the MSSQL Tips site, Eduardo Pivaral explains How to Capture IoT Data in Azure
The Azure updates team announces that A secure foundation for IoT, Azure Sphere is now generally available
On Channel 9, Olivier Bloch (@obloch) talks about How Stora Enso IoT Solution is Impacting Carbon Footprint and Sustainability
The Azure updates team announces Azure Security Center for IoT real-time operating system support

⚖️ Management and Governance

Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) discusses Use Azure Tags to organize Resources
On the Azure blog, Michael Flanakin (@flanakin) lists the Azure Cost Management + Billing updates
On the Azure blog, The Azure updates team announces that you can now Drill into the costs for your resources, Azure Monitor Log Analytics now has new, upgraded visualizations and that they're Retiring some Azure Site Recovery support options on March 1, 2023
On the Tallan blog, Byron Branning describes Azure Governance – Management Groups
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) describes ARM Template Deployment Scopes
Also on medium, Itay Podhajcer blogs about Terraforming Load Balanced Multi-Region Hyperledger Besu Nodes on Azure
On Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump (@mbcrump) discusses Deploying a Node.js Web App using Visual Studio Code, GitHub Actions and Azure

🎬 Media

The Azure updates team announces that they're Retiring Azure Media Analytics preview processors on June 1, 2020

🚌 Migration

On the endjin blog, Jonathan George (@jon_george1) blogs about Exposing legacy batch processing code online using Azure Durable Functions, API Management and Kubernetes

🌐 Networking

On the Azure blog, Jared Ross covers ExpressRoute Global Reach: Building your own cloud-based global backbone
The Azure updates team announces that Azure Virtual Network service endpoint policies feature is now available and Azure Load Balancer TCP resets on idle timeout is now available
On Channel 9, Sohamn Chatterjee talks about How to use HTTP overrides on Azure CDN from Microsoft
Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) describes Azure Virtual Networking Service Endpoints and Private Endpoints

🔐 Security

Thuan Nguyen writes about the Alert Grouping feature in Azure Sentinel
The Azure updates team announces that Fileless attack detection for Linux is now in preview
Antariksh Mistry discusses Securing your Logic App via API Management

📦 Storage

Gaurav Mantri (@gmantri) writes about Avoiding “AuthorizationFailed” error when hand-crafting Shared Access Signature for Azure Storage

🔗 Web

The Azure updates team brings us the Azure API Management update
On the Serverless360 blog, Pavithra Rajendran writes: Azure API App vs Web App
The Azure updates team announces that Azure Site Recovery data encryption feature will be retired April 30, 2022