Azure Weekly

Issue #350 - 21st November 2021

There's only one announcement that matters this week! SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage - now in public preview! This has been a missing feature for just about every Azure project I've delivered in the past decade, so this is extremely welcome news and one of the final puzzle pieces to enable customers to eliminate IaaS from their otherwise entirely PaaS / Serverless data architectures. There's a good, more detailed blog post from Charbel Nemnom: Enable SFTP Support for Azure Blob Storage.

In the container space, there's a useful article from Mike Larah about setting up multiple WSL distribution instances, a good high level introduction to Azure Container Apps by Ivan Porta, and a great post by Mark Heath examining Options for running locally with Dapr.

Finally, three other articles of interest: Optimize the types of the columns to improve performance in serverless SQL pool databases, What's the difference between Azure AD Graph, Azure Resource Graph and Microsoft Graph and Azure standard availability tests with Bicep.