Azure Weekly

Issue #305 - 20th December 2020

There are still a flood of posts following the Synapse GA and Purview public preview announcements at the start of December; first How Azure Synapse unifies your development experience, then Azure Synapse Analytics Data Integration and Orchestration and Enable unified data governance with Azure Purview.

If you spend a lot of your time writing Infrastructure as Code, What-If for ARM Template deployments is now Generally Available makes life considerably easier to see what your template changes will do without altering deployed resources. Earlier in the year we released the Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library; this week Mike Larah published a post and template for installing Mattermost using the Azure CNAB Quickstart Library.

Finally, Azure Digital Twins is now generally available, Azure Cost Management and Billing have published a year in review, Philip Cumner writes about Streaming Pixel Server Data to Azure EventHubs via the Kafka Streaming Protocol. and Lior Kamrat shares that the Azure Arc Jumpstart site is live.

There have been 49 issues of Azure Weekly in 2020, our subscriber growth has increased by 20%, our @AzureWeekly twitter account is a hive of activity, and we get a constant stream of emails with people proudly sharing the content they have created. 2020 marked the 10th anniversary of starting endjin, and the 6th anniversary of Azure Weekly. Have a great festive break and we'll see you all again in January.