Azure Weekly

Issue #352 - 5th December 2021

We've been doing R&D on Dapr and Azure Container Apps over the last few months and now we're sharing the journey and findings in the start of a new blog series: Adventures in Dapr: Episode 0.

It's good to see that Azure has a load testing service again; it's a vital part of the DevOps process for any applications that deal with significant amounts of traffic. Introducing Azure Load Testing: Optimize app performance at scale. There's also a nice new feature in Application Insights that offers new HEART Workbook is based on Google's HEART framework to Measure product effectiveness with new user analytics. If you've been dabbling with Azure Static Web Apps, you may be interested in Refactoring Azure Static Web Apps CI/CD Pipeline.

An useful post highlights a number of Community and certification related resources for developers. There's also a good post on addressing data processing outside the data sovereignty region (GDPR).

And finally three interesting posts, the first helps you Get Started with Azure and WebAssembly, and the final two examine Developer Velocity and The SPACE framework: Putting Tools in Your Hands to Improve Developer Productivity, and Introducing Developer Velocity Lab – A Research Initiative to Amplify Developer Work and Well-Being.