Azure Weekly

Issue #322 - 2nd May 2021

There were two big announcements this week, firstly a new service, Azure Web PubSub, which you can read more about in the following article: Easily build real-time apps with WebSockets and Azure Web PubSub — now in preview. Although it looks similar to Azure SignalR, it's targetted at lower-level, cross platform, websocket based usecases. Next Microsoft has made another acquisition, this time Kinvolk, to accelerate container-optimized innovation.

In the analytics space, James Serra has a chalk & talk session on the Modern Data Warehouse, the Data Exposed show covers the Benefits of Intelligent Query Processing, and Machine Learning on Azure SQL Managed Instance is generally available.

There's an exciting new feature in Azure AD: preview of embed Azure AD B2C sign-in interface in an iframe, which can be useful for SPA scenarios. There's also a good article about gaining insights into the Azure Virtual Network flows in Azure Network Security Hygiene with Traffic Analytics.

Finally, at a slightly higher level, on the Azure Enablement show a good conversation about evaluating financial considerations during your cloud adoption journey and finally a story about Microsoft is partnering with the UK government and SeeAbility to support people with disabilities to find jobs, skill up support workers and tackle social isolation.