Azure Weekly

Issue #294 - 4th October 2020

There have been some great summaries of Microsoft Ignite last week - James Serra runs through the Microsoft Ignite Announcements, Sam Cogan discusses some Microsoft Ignite 2020 Azure Announcement Highlights, and Shayne Boyer rounds up a Blazing Week at Microsoft Ignite!

This week was also Create:Serverless - a one of a kind live event about all things serverless, and you can watch the whole event here. Another interesting post in this area is CLAD (Code, Libraries, Access, Data) Model for Serverless Security. Azure Friday focuses on a slightly lesser known serverless Azure Container Instances ACI under the hood.

And, on the Azure blog, Chaitanya Bangur discusses Accelerating genomics workflows and data analysis on Azure and the updates team provides courses on how to manage and optimize your Azure costs.

We've had an exciting week here at endjin, with some of our endjineers presenting at SQLBits, keep an eye out for the recordings of their talks, as we're planning to publish them over the next few weeks. It's also quite unusual for me to have time to write a blog post, but this week I managed to write about something that's been on my mind for a while: How to use SQL Notebooks to access Azure Synapse SQL Pools & SQL on demand. I'm a huge fan of interactive notebooks, and use them as my goto tool for doing data exploration, or performance benchmarking.