Azure Weekly

Issue #346 - 24th October 2021

We're in the pre-Ignite 2021 "lull", there are a number of interesting articles but few announcements. Expect a flood in a couple of weeks! First up is a nice round up of all the Azure Synapse updates that were released in October including significant performance improvements and more robust security features. The recent Azure Purview GA is also covered on Azure Friday.

The migration of development activities into the cloud continues with the public preview of Visual Studio Code for the Web, which you can access via https://vscode.dev/. In a great use case for Azure Percept, this post covers using Computer Vision to detect a 3D print going wrong and cancelling it. Considering many people run 3D print jobs over night because they take so long, this saves time, money and energy.

A new release of Bicep came out this week, with an awesome feature I've wanted in ARM for years, the ability to have a Private Module Registry. Think NuGet for Bicep packages. This is a huge productivity and standardization boost for building architectures on Azure. Another interesting post covers Trying out WebAssembly on Azure Kubernetes Service. WASM is going to become an important technology in the next few years, and it's great to see more scenarios becoming accessible to everyone.

As it's a quiet week, I'm going to finish up highlighting the 4 new Apprentice Software Engineers who joined endjin at the start of September. They've just published their retrospectives of their first month entering the world of work, what they've learned about modern software development and the Azure ecosystem. I'm sure you'll be seeing a lot more content from this cohort as they continue their learning journey. Here are the posts by Elisenda Gascon, Nehemiah Campbell, Liam Mooney and Jessica Hill.