Azure Weekly Issue 378: 10th July 2022
There are a number of interesting articles covering real world uses cases of analytics: Introducing AVERA: Automated Vessel Emission and Route Analysis (this is an area of interest as we created AIS.NET for high performance marine vessel telemetry processing), and Aviation flight data analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics, and finally Geospatial Analytics for Connected Vehicle with Synapse Data Explorer. There's also an article highlighting ways you can browse industry templates and add tables to create your own lake database.
Two other items of note: the General availability of Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights and Dealing With Azure Capacity Shortages.
AI + Machine Learning
Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: Azure Percept DK June 2206 software update
- Greg Beaumont writes about Predictive Diagnostics using Power Apps in Teams with Azure ML
Analytics
Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Apache Storm for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Catalog, Data Factory, Data Lake Analytics, Event Hubs, HDInsight, .NET for Apache Spark, R Server for HDInsight, Azure Purview
- Myra Saet describes Introducing AVERA: Automated Vessel Emission and Route Analysis
- Debananda Ghosh writes about Geospatial Analytics for Connected Vehicle with Synapse Data Explorer
- Debananda Ghosh discusses Aviation flight data analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics
- Fikrat Azizov discusses Building Lakehouse Dashboards Using Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless Pool
- Michal Bar writes about Azure Data Explorer Web Explorer updates – June 2022
- Lakshmi Murthy describes Ways you can browse industry templates and add tables to create your own lake database
- On SQL Server Central, Dennes Torres talks about Azure Synapse Link for SQL: From production to a data warehouse in a few clicks
- On the Azure Medium blog, Nicholas Xuan Nguyen describes How to Use Azure Data Lake for Storage and Analysis
- On episode 141 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren and Jussi Roine discuss Adventures in data: Integrating PostgreSQL with Azure Data Lake
- Jovan Popovic (@jocapc) explains How to provide statement id in the serverless SQL pool support ticket
Compute
Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- On the Azure blog, Vijay Kanchanahalli explains how to Choose the right size for your workload with NVads A10 v5 virtual machines, now generally available
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Generally available: Azure Functions retry policy for Event Hubs and timer triggers
- Rachel Pruitt provides A quick start to benchmarking in Azure: NVIDIA Deep Learning Examples on the NC-series
- Jay Gong describes How to Migrate Schema Registry from Confluent to Azure Event Hub
- Edi Wang explains how to Connect to Windows VM on Azure without an RDP Client App
Containers
Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers
- Paolo Salvatori presents Everything you want to know about ephemeral OS disks and Azure Kubernetes Service AKS
Databases
Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL—Hyperscale Citus supports PostgreSQL minor versions
- Gennady Kostinsky covers Introducing support for Pgrouting and PLV8 extensions in PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- Also on Tech Community blog, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) blogs about SQL Insider Series: Azure SQL DB – Automating scale up and down Data Exposed
- Sudheesh Narayanaswamy blogs about Cross region replication using Data-in replication with Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server
- Ebru Ersan describes How to enable and run SQL best practices assessments on multiple SQL Servers on Azure VMs
Developer Tools
Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online
- Julia Muiruri describes How to edit your power page directly on VS Code
DevOps
Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations
- On episode 200 of the Azure Devops podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Tomas Petricek to discuss Cultures of Programming
- Gerasimos Alexiou explains how to Create approvals on build and release Azure DevOps pipelines and covers Build triggers on Azure devops pipelines
- Edi Wang explains How to Add Parameters for 'npm install' in Azure DevOps
Hybrid + Multicloud
Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack
Identity
Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Active Directory authentication for Application Insights
- Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons) talks about Microsoft Entra Permissions Management is now generally available
- Kristina Hotz talks about Use cloud groups in on-premises Active Directory with group writeback
- Freek Berson (@fberson) covers Parallels RAS 19 Expression based filtering and Multiple Multi-factor Authentication MFA providers
- Andreas Helland delves into Blazor Test App for Azure AD B2C Custom Policies
- Andrew Coughlin walks through Accessing Key Vault from Another Subscription Over Public Endpoint
Integration
Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus
- Manohar Patel Seshapur blogs about Workflow expression function xml behavior when converting numbers with decimal in Logic Apps
- Yingjie Shi describes How to create API connection Logic App consumption using ARM REST API
Internet of Things
Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services
- The Azure Updates Team announces Generally available: Azure Digital Twins Data history and Public preview: 2022-06-30 Azure IoT Central REST API release is now live
Learning
Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information
- Bethany Jepchumba presents Introduction to clustering models by using R and Tidymodels - part 4 of 4
- Bethany Jepchumba presents Data Science and Machine Learning using regression models
- In his lesson learned series, Jose M Jurado (@jmjuradodiaz) explains How redirect connection policy type works, discusses What do I need to do in case of high LOGRATEGOVERNOR wait time and What do I need to do in case of high CPU wait time
Management and Governance
Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Scheduler, Azure Purview
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Application Insights standard test for synthetic monitoring
- The Azure Updates Team blogs about Public preview: User-assigned Managed Identity support for Azure Monitor Agent
- On the Azure blog, Asir Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh) describes How to choose the right Azure services for your applications—Its not A or B
- Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) discusses Dealing With Azure Capacity Shortages
Media
Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer
- Chris Palmer discusses Public Preview - Raw Media Access for Voice & Video Calling
Migration
Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box
- The Azure Updates Team discusses Public preview: Migration tools for Azure Monitor Agent
- Balasubramanian Delli presents Configuration Manager technical preview version 2207
Mobile
Covering: App Service (Mobile), Mobile apps, Notification Hubs, Visual Studio App Centre, Xamarin
Networking
Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall
- Pierre Roman (@pierreroman) explains how to Connect to your on-prem server from anywhere
Security
Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center
- Andrew Lomakin walks through Deploying Microsoft Sentinel Threat Monitoring for SAP agent into an AKS/Kubernetes cluster
- Liana Tomescu covers Microsoft Defender for Cloud PoC Series - Multicloud with GCP
- Lior Tamir talks about Whats new: Centrally manage automated response to alerts with automation rules in Microsoft Sentinel
- Benjamin Kovacevic presents Microsoft Sentinel Automation Tips & Tricks – Part 2
Storage
Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple
- The Azure Updates Team writes about General availability: Azure Archive Storage now available in South Africa North
- Arindam Mondal discusses Monitoring Azure Blob Storage
- The Azure Updates Team writes about Limited preview: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup
Web
Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps
- On episode 430 of the Azure podcast, the team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Arsen Vladimirskiy and John Downs to talk about Multi-tenant Architectures
- Manoj Srinivas presents Azure Tips and Tricks - How to test application performance with Azure Load Testing
Azure Virtual Desktop
Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop
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