Azure Weekly

Issue #307 - 17th January 2021

To kick off this edition - there are a couple of good videos on Channel 9; first up Alex Frankel joins Abel Wang discuss Project Bicep – the next generation ARM Templates - we've been converting some of our more advanced ARM Templates to Bicep to put it through its paces; we're happy with the direction of travel - each new release improves the experience. Something to keep an eye on. Secondly, the Microsoft Graph should get more attention / love than it currently does; Cecil Phillip delves into Change Notifications with Microsoft Graph On .NET

Another post with some personal interest is Processing CloudEvents for Azure EventGrid via Azure Functions as we've adopted the CloudEvents standard for a serverless workflow engine we've been building over the last year. On the Azure blog, Alex Simon discusses how Azure Active Directory empowers frontline workers with simplified and secure access. Sarah Lean lists ten things you can implement to save costs in your Azure environment. Incredibly useful as we all ramp up our projects and resources for the new year!

Mark Serafine provides an introduction to Microsoft Azure Government Secret - which supports agencies working with highly classified data. And Kenneth Omorodion runs through how to create Azure DevOps Analytics Visuals with Power BI OData Queries.

Finally, this week our newest endjineer - Barry Smart - has written his first endjin blog, covering the Doing Data Together Conference and how we can take learnings from the Covid 19 pandemic and apply them to wider data and analytics scenarios.