Azure Weekly

Issue #298 - 1st November 2020

This is our 6th anniversary edition! We launched the newsletter on the 2nd November 2014; Azure looked very different back then! I just wanted to say a big thank-you to the thousands of subscribers all over the world, who take the time to read this newsletter, and to the people who proudly email me to share the blog posts they have written.

First up, Carmel Eve has just published her building a secure data solution using Azure Data Lake Store talk from SQLBits 2020. Well worth a watch if you are thinking of adopting Azure Data Lake - the talk is packed full of real world learnings from various projects we've delivered over the past 5 years. MVP Ian Griffiths has also published his SQLBits talk Navigating the Bewildering Array of Data Services in Azure, which is a 40 minute whistle-stop-tour of all the Azure Data Services.

Another technology that we're particularly interested in is OpenAPI - if you're building Restful web services, it really is the most awesome technology. And now you can generate a new function app from an OpenAPI specification. This is very neat. We advocate the "design first" approach to OpenAPI specifications. So much that we have our own OSS project called Menes, which facillitates this approach.

Valentin Logvinskiy shares how to optimize Azure Machine Learning for IoT production usage, and there are two interesting stories about healthcare and Azure: Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Unlocking the power of health data for better care and Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare is now generally available.