Azure Weekly

Issue #304 - 13th December 2020

With the recent general availability of Azure Synapse, last week's announcement of Azure Purview, the announcement of new ML features for Azure Synapse, and new features in Azure Functions, this week there has been a load of excellent content!

Ron L'Esteve provides some "Getting Started with Azure Synapse Analytics Workspace" Samples. Rohan Kumar discusses how we can harness analytical and predictive power with Azure Synapse Analytics. And, in a similar vein, John Macintyre describes how to unleash the power of predictive analytics in Azure Synapse with machine learning and AI.

On Channel 9, Adi Polak and Simon Whiteley dliver a hands-on workshop: Intro to Serverless SQL. On Azure Medium, Ari Bornstein discusses no Code Data Enrichment with Azure Synapse and Azure Machine Learning. And, on the Microsoft site there is an excellent tutorial on how to Train a machine learning model code-free in Azure Synapse with Apache Spark and automated ML.

Moving on to Azure Purview, the updates team highlights how Microsoft Azure Purview provides unified data governance. James Serra provides a walkthrough of the new Microsoft data governance product. And finally, on the tech community, Vishal Anil discusses how to map your data estate with Azure Purview.

Elsewhere, Nitya Narasimhan runs through #SeasonsOfServerless Solution 2: "Developing Lovely Ladoos".Anthony Chu highlights .NET 5 support on Azure Functions and support for any language with Custom Handlers.Michael Crump explains how to run C# notebooks with Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Digital Twins now generally available.

Finally, as I'm a EV owner in the UK, this article grabbed my attention; UKs first electric car charging forecourt opens to the public, powered by Microsoft Azure and Dynamics. I love GRIDSERVE's vision of what forecourt charging should look like; the latest episode of Fully Charged has the exclusive, in-depth first look.