Azure Weekly

Issue #342 - 26th September 2021

Following on from last week's OMIGOD vulnerability, Bruno Gabrielli highlights a Azure Monitor OMI Vulnerabilities Rapid Check Workbook.

It's been a long wait, but Azure Functions runtime 4.0 is now in public preview, and Mark Heath has a good blog post delving into the isolation model in "Is it time to start creating C# Azure Functions in isolated mode?". While we're on the subject of previews, Radu Vunvulea has published a usefil post on the differences between GA, Private and Public Preview on Azure Services and Features. Staying with Serverless, AzureServerlessConf - is running online Sep 29-30, each day targeting a different time zone.

Other interesting articles this week are: Azure Cosmos DB: autoscale, session state, monitoring, and more Azure Friday, Real-Time Streaming using Power BI Streaming Dataset, a re-badging of various high level AI / ML / Cognitive services is outlined in All you need to know about Azure Applied AI Services. Andreas Wolter has a nice post on Security concepts: Audit Trail, and something that will help anyone managing an Azure Virtual Desktop Environment - General Availability of Azure AD-joined VMs support. There is an interesting announcement in the IoT space: enable industrial device connectivity with thousands of partner-provided Azure IoT Plug and Play device profiles. Hopefully this will make as big an impact is PnP had in the consumer space (if anyone can remember how painful peripherals were before USB & PnP).

Finally, this week marked the end of endjin's summer internship programme. We had over 300 applications and whittled the candidates down to a cohort consisting of Amy, Klaudia, Charlotte and Thea. While Charlotte is studying Computer Science, the rest of the cohort are studying a mixture of Biomedical Engineering and Electronics Engineering. I encouraged them to keep a journal throughout the internship to document their internship, and while they started with no cloud experience and a tiny bit of exposure to data any python (most Universities seem to teach Python courses), their progress over the two months was impressive. They delivered huge amounts of value, and I would highly recommend running your own summer internship programme, if you need convincing, read their write-ups: Amy's summer as an intern endjineer, My internship experience, Charlotte's Internship Blog, From start to finish: my internship at endjin.