Azure Weekly

Issue #345 - 17th October 2021

There was another big outage in Azure this week, and many await the Post Mortem to understand what was the root cause this time around. It seems a shame when there was also a great post showing the benefits of Azure in Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack.

It was KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 this week, so there were a number of related announcements, the biggest being the public preview: AKS support for WebAssembly System Interface WASI workloads. It's probably going to be another 5 years before WASM "crosses the chasm" but it's worth keeping an eye on.

This post gives an impressive demo of the capabilities of Azure Form Recognizer: Building a Vaccination Verification system. There's a great article about how to Enable Managed Identity for Web App with Azure Policy and a little trick to help you Find The Resources Which Use Particular User Assigned Managed Identity.

There are a couple of interesting posts in the IoT space, firstly about IoT Plug and Play support for Azure IoT Edge devices in IoT Central and the second is about Mosquitto Client Tools and Azure IoT Hub. (which I happened to be playing with last week while diagnosing an issue with a Dapr app). And there's a great post on the underrated Signalr service: SignalR Scaling with Azure SignalR Service

Finally, in more ways than one, you can install Sysinternals from the Microsoft Store!