Azure Weekly

Issue #292 - 20th September 2020

Is everyone getting ready for Microsoft Ignite? Remember, this year it's totally free to attend, so no excuse not to sign-up and attend a session or two. See more details over here.

Some pre-Ignite announcements for you that have appeared in the last week. There's now NFS 4.1 support for Azure Files is now in preview for those that require a fully POSIX compliant NFS file system. Access time-tracking and access time-based lifecycle management For Azure Blob storage is now in preview, allowing you to get more clever about which blobs to transition between access tiers, and potentially which to delete because of inactivity. There's also now a new API to Get Retail Rates for all Azure Products/Services, which you can use to build robust cost models, for example, rather than manually retrieving pricing details.

A few blogs to highlight this week: Inderjit Rana has highlighted the Azure Data Factory Mapping Data Flows Performance Pitfall to avoid (pesky cluster start-up times!), James Serra has written about the various Query options in Azure Synapse Analytics, and Aaron Powell has wondered Can we make GraphQL type safe in code?

Elsewhere, Antti K. Koskela has shared a helpful blog describing How to remove your account as a guest in another Azure AD tenant, and Richard Fennell has answered the question How can I automatically create Azure DevOps Release Notes and how can I publish them?