Azure Weekly

Issue #351 - 28th November 2021

A quiet week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. If you've used Enterprise Landing Zone please fill out the Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones Survey so that the team can continue make improvements. If you use Terraform as your Infrastructure as Code (IAC) language of choice, take a look at the new Deploy the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework Enterprise-Scale Module.

There's an interesting high-level article by Mark Russinovich and Nadim Abdo aboutAdvancing service resilience in Azure Active Directory with its backup authentication service. I also enjoyed this article by John Kilmister. which covers Breaking up Monolithic Websites with Azure. This is very much the approach I have used in the past building large scale ecommerce platforms - but it's great to see that this technique can be implemented easily (and cost effectively) using Azure Front Door. Another interesting article this week covers the different public API hosting on Azure.

There are two interesting AI related posts: first Inference machine learning models in the browser with JavaScript and ONNX Runtime Web and Let's build a serverless Christmas image tagging solution with Azure Computer Vision.

Finally, two good articles about Azure Synapse: The best practices for organizing Synapse workspaces and lakehouses and Azure Synapse Analytics database templates.