Azure Weekly

Issue #270 - 12th April 2020

I hope everyone's bank holiday weekend is going alright, and that you've managed to find some flour in order to do some traditional Easter-time baking!

Along that vein, this week Chloe Condon has provided a tutorial around Using Azure Functions to Make Sourdough, perfect for those of us new to this whole sourdough business... And also a great intro to Azure Functions!

She has also listed Some great ways that people have been using Azure Cognitive Services, which runs through some fun (and interesting) ways in which AI can help with remote presenting.

Filisha Shah has also provided a guide to remote development with Live Share. Live Share is an excellent tool and definitely worth looking into when attempting remote pair programming.

Elsewhere, Tobias Zimmergen has run through some Best Practices for building and designing Azure Functions. These are important to keep in mind when working with Functions, we've run into a few of these issues ourselves when doing serverless compute!

Adam Bertram has also provided an explanation on How to Parse ARM Output Variables in Azure DevOps Pipelines. He gives an easy-to-follow example of something which, I know from personal experience, can be difficult to get right.

And here at endjin, James Broome has written yet another excellent blog on Azure Analysis Services, this time on how to update the expression for a calculated column from .NET. The whole series is definitely worth a read, the first of which can be found here.

And Jess Panni has written a post on Wardley Maps, featuring a video which explains how OceanMind uses Microsoft Azure & AI to combat Illegal Fishing.

Finally, if you have a bit of free time over the Easter weekend (and are feeling particularly productive), we wanted to highlight that all Pluralsight courses are free for the month of April!