Azure Weekly

Issue #334 - 1st August 2021

I returned from two weeks' holiday on Friday, where I had been vaguely successful at having a "digital detox" to discover the sad news that Abel Wang had died. I would look forward to finding new content from Abel for the newsletter; it was always engaging, informative and enjoyable to watch. My thoughts go to his family, friends, and colleagues. There's been a huge outpouring on social media, which just goes to show the positive impact he had in our community and beyond. He will be missed. RIP Abel.

This week, the Azure Updates Team have announced that immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now in public preview. Also on the Azure blog, the team also discusses optimize your cloud spend with Azure and Kristen Hicks describes advancing your financial services strategy with Azure sustainability.

On the Dev blog, April Edwards compares Azure Static Web Apps, Azure WebApps and Azure Blob Storage Static Sites. On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel discusses how Microsoft is replacing Xamarin Toolkits with New .NET MAUI alternatives. Elsewhere, Hayley Ding describes how to import an Azure Function App to Azure API Management programmatically, and Dennes Torres runs through how to query blob storage with SQL using Azure Synapse.