Azure Weekly

Issue #349 - 14th November 2021

A slightly quieter week than last week (thankfully!, but a number of Ignite announcements still trickle out. Of course the big news this week is the release of .NET 6.0 and Visual Studio 2022. The transition from .NET Framework, through .NET Core to .NET 6.0 has been a long, complicated, and slightly painful process. We have 30+ repositories of .NET based libraries, and transitioning them has has required significant effort over this period, so it's very satisfying to be entering a stage of relative stability and Long Term Support, while also having some impressive foundations for future innovation.

Of course, a new version of .NET is only useful if various hosting environments support it. Fortunately many Azure Product Groups have worked hard to ensure launch day support for .NET 6.0 across Azure Functions, Azure App Service, and Azure Static Web Apps.

Another announcement that shouldn't slip under the radar is that Azure Web PubSub service is now generally available.

Finally a couple of interesting articles in the analytics space: Performance of querying blob storage with Synapse SQL Serverless and Ingestion and Processing Layers in Azure Data Lakehouse.