Azure Weekly

Issue #279 - 14th June 2020

It's a big week for us and for Azure Synapse Analytics as the "how it works" global virtual event is this Wednesday, 17th June, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM Pacific Time (18.00-19.00 BST), and endjin are part of it! We've been working with the Synapse Product Group for the last year, running real-world customer workloads, and performing exhaustive benchmarks; Jess Panni has written a great post about Benchmarking Azure Synapse Analytics - SQL Serverless, using .NET Interactive. We're very impressed by the results and we think you will be too. We're featured in the event and Jess Panni will be doing a live Q&A during it. If you are interested, register for the event here, and ask lots of questions!

This week we have a couple more useful round-ups of the announcements and talks from Build 2020! On the Azure blog, Erez Barak covers Whats new in Azure Machine Learning, and, on Azure Tips and Tricks, Michael Crump has provided a runthrough of all of the useful App Dev videos from Build 2020.

Elsewhere, Sam Cogan has provided a useful overview of Using Loops and Conditions in ARM Templates. Anirudh Garg asks Why use Azure Functions for ML inference? and, Scott Hanselman has written a blog on how to rename your default branch from Master to Main. Here at endjin we've taken the decision to rename our default branches, and have had some good suggestions, but would love to know about any that you've come up with - so let's hear them!