Azure Weekly

Issue #285 - 26th July 2020

The (virtual) Microsoft Inspire Conference was held this week, so there are a number of new Azure announcements, although many of them are aimed at the Microsoft Partner Ecosystem, with announcements around products like Lighthouse, but for the wider ecosystem, the biggest announcement seemed to center on Azure Stack HCI. You can catch up with all the announcements with the Inspire Book of News.

Ed Freeman has written a great summary of how to use Azure Key Vault for Encryption in C#. On the Azure DevOps blog, Sidi Merzouk has provided an Azure DevOps Roadmap update for Q3 - some exciting things on there to look forward to!

And, on the Azure blog, Erik Rifkin provides and introduction to the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework. This provides a set of Azure architecture best practices to help you build and deliver great solutions.

The updates team have also announced OpenID Connect support for Azure App Service and Azure Functions is in preview. And John Chirapurath has written a guide on how toinnovate in Azure with confidence. Eslewhere, Ryan Kennedy has walked through reading and Writing data in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2 with Azure Databricks

Finally, John Papa is hosting a free 90 minute workshop on Azure Static Websites on July 29th. I thoroughly enjoyed John's Vue courses on Pluralsight, and I've done quite a bit of experimentation with Azure Static Websites as I've build a version of the new endjin.com using it; the only reason it's not currently live is the lack of support for APEX (naked) domains before GA. The course will be worth checking out!