Azure Weekly
Issue #359 - 13th February 2022
There's an interesting dive into DataLakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric, and a post exploring how you can organise your Azure resources in when Azure subscriptions make sense, and on a similar note, creating an Azure Hub and Spoke Playground.
There's a nice post giving a high level of Azure Static Web Apps - a Netlify alternative and a post exploring how to Expose gRPC services in Azure Container Apps.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Meer Alam covers Connecting to Azure Services from within Azure ML Notebook
- Neal McFee talks about Powering the Azure Percept DK using batteries for multiple scenarios
🔎 Analytics
- Olesya Melnichenko writes about Genomic data in Parquet format on Azure
- James Serra (@JamesSerra) describes DataLakehouse, Data Mesh, and Data Fabric
- Ron L'Esteve describes Reporting, Advanced Analytics, CICD, and Governance in the Lakehouse
- John Miner (@JohnMiner3) blogs about Leveraging the Power Query activity within Azure Data Factory
- Leo Furlong describes how to Leverage Azure Databricks jobs orchestration from Azure Data Factory
- On the Cloudera blog, Michael Kohs announces the GA of Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud on Microsoft Azure
🖥️ Compute
- On the Azure blog, Manoj Kumar writes about Genomic analysis on Galaxy using Azure CycleCloud
- On the Data Exposed channel Anna Hoffman talks with Pam Lahoud and Aditya Badramraju about Azure SQL VM: New and Improved SQL on Azure VM deployment & management experience Ep.8
- Aaron Powell (@slace) discusses OpenAPI for JavaScript Azure Functions
- On episode 411 of the Azure Podcast Sujit D'Mello, Cynthia Kreng, Suhas Rao, and Graeme Foster talk about Event Driven Architectures on Azure
- On the Azure blog, Erin Chapple (@erinchapple) explains how to Learn how open source plays a key role in Microsofts cloud strategy with Inside Azure for IT
🚢 Containers
- The Azure Updates Team announces Private preview: AKS cluster persistent volume backup
- Thorsten Hans (@ThorstenHans) walks through Exposing gRPC services in Azure Container Apps
- The serverless360 team provide a Azure Container Apps overview
🗄️ Databases
- Rajendra Gupta (@rajendragupta16) walks through Migrating SQL Data into Azure Cosmos DB
- Sajeetharan Sinnathurai covers Cosmos DB Pagination & Continuation Tokens with JavaScript
- Sudheesh Narayanaswamy talks about Monitoring and creating alerts for Data-in replication with Azure Database for MySQL-Flexible Server
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Paul Chapman covers Support ends for older versions of Visual Studio
🔩 DevOps
- Brad Wyatt blogs about Getting Started with Bicep, an ARM DSL for Azure
- On episode 179 of the Azure DevOps podcast Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) talks with Shaun Walker about Blazor and Oqtane
- On the Microsoft DevOps blog, Dan Hellem describes Copy Dashboard Public Preview Part 3
- On episode 67 of the AzureFunBytes podacast, Jay Gordon (@jaydestro), Gahl Levy and Theo van Kray discuss What's New With AzureCosmosDB
- Episode 120 of the Ctr+Alt+Azure podcast with Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine covers Azure Updates
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Andy Chan writes about IC Manage Holodeck Enables Microsoft Azure For Semiconductor Design
🎭 Identity
- The Azure Updates Team announces Public preview: Azure Bastion now supports file transfer via the native client
- Ralf Klahr discusses Implementing Azure NetApp Files with Kerberos
- Robin Goldstein explains how to Collaborate more securely with new cross-tenant access settings
- On Code Project, Rahul Sharma covers Azure AD Managed Identities: Java Apps on Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure AD Managed Identities: Using Managed Identities to Obtain Key Store Credentials
💡 Internet of Things
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availabilty of: Regional deployments for all new and existing IoT Central applications, and Search results page improvements in Azure IoT Central, and Improved getting started material in Azure IoT Central documentation and Find developer resources easily with the IoT Central GitHub repository
- Antti K. Koskela (@koskila) shares Azure IoT Edge gotchas
📚 Learning
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces the General Availability of: Azure Site Recovery update rollup 60 - January 2022 and Recovery points extended to 15 days with Azure Site Recovery
- Alan Kinane (@Azure_Alan) covers MSP: The well-tempered Azure tenant – Part 2
- Roelf Zomerman (@RCZ_Jag) writes about when Azure subscriptions make sense
🌐 Networking
- Nicola Delfino (@NicolTwit) writes about creating an Azure Hub and Spoke Playground
- Akshay Attota discusses Azure Data Components Network Architecture with secure configurations
🔐 Security
- Sharon Ko explains highlights What's New: Consolidating Apache Log4j-related insights across Multiple Tenants and Workspaces
- Tobias Zimmergren (@zimmergren) describes how to Track your Secure Score over time in Azure
📦 Storage
- Jim Gray explains how to GET Azure Blob with Subtle Crypto Signed Pure JavaScript
🔗 Web
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) talks about Azure Static Web Apps - a Netlify alternative
- Daichi Isami (@normalian) describes how to Leverage collaboration between PowerApps and Azure API Management - No.1
- Also on Tech Community blog, Aaron Powell (@slace) blogs about GraphQL on Azure: Part 7 - Server-side Authentication and Part 8 - Logging