Azure Weekly

Issue #343 - 3rd October 2021

This week saw Azure Purview GA. See the details in Govern your data wherever it resides with Azure Purview. Staying with the topic of governance, we believe that control of security has to start with the DevOps process, so it was nice to see Azure Policy Compliance and Remediation via Azure DevOps. Software Supply Chain security is becoming an important subject and AzureFunBytes Episode 58 covers improving your Open Source Security with WhiteSourceSoft.

Cost management is an ever green issue, so it's worth taking a look at the latest Azure Cost Management and Billing updates for September 2021. Something that will make a lot of data engineers happy is the General availability: Azure Data Factory managed virtual network. One of my general criticisms of Azure is that it's actually quite difficult to build cost effective multi-tenant SaaS solutions with the current generation of services. I was pleased to see this article about the complexity of managing multiple domains: Azure Front Door custom domain quote limit and solutions.

Two interesting learning related posts: Introducing Data Science for Beginners and something I strongly agree with, why students should get involved in open source.

I've always been a huge fan of Sysinternal, the tools have helped me solved numerous issues over the years. I can't believe they are 25 years old, but I', really looking forward to the Sysinternals 25th anniversary event on October 14, 2021. I always read or listen to any content featuring Darrel Miller, he's one of the nicest and most knowledgeable people about creating Restful APIs, and he's doing some excellent work on The Microsoft Graph (which I'm constantly amazed at how little love the platform gets). He and Maisa Rissi talk about the Latest Microsoft Graph SDKs on the Microsft 365 Developer Podcast. Finally Sarah Lean has left her role at Microsoft, but I hope she continues to produce great Azure related content, keep an eye out for her Weekly Updates; GitHub, Network Security Dashboard, Availability Zones and Hacktoberfest.