Azure Weekly

Issue #268 - 29th March 2020

I hope everyone is safe and well and adjusting to working from home. There has been a lot more going on in the community this week! One of the big themes seems to be that cloud consumption is increasing at a staggering rate, as many organisation have been accelerating their adoptions, or have been executing their business continuity plans and rolling out cloud based infrastructure for their home workers. This increase in demand is causing problems in some regions (the UK being one notable example this week), but some Azure powered services such as Teams are rising to the challenge; it's a testament to some of the underlying technology that these services can scale to meet demand.

On Azure Friday, Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Cosmos DB: Free Tier and Autopilot.

On the Azure blog, there is now a high level walkthrough of Azure SDKs General Availability as of March 2020. As we highlighted last week, this includes the newly GA SDK for Azure Data Lake.

Greg Suttie has provided a walkthrough of Moving an Azure DevOps repo to use Github Actions. We've recently used GitHub to open source a lot of our internal projects here at endjin. With the addition of GitHub actions, we have found that GitHub now meets all of our CI/CD needs!

Along the same lines, this week there was a Channel 9 episode around MLOps CI/CD with GitHub Actions. This is exciting as we can see that Machine Learning is now being treated with the same coding standards as the rest of software development. This is critical in monitoring models as they are trained and developed.

Be safe & stay at home.