Azure Weekly

Issue #386 - 11th September 2022

Quite a packed edition, with lots of community content. An interesting announcement this week is the Generally availability of the Kusto Emulator; hopefully this will allow more people to investigate / integrate into their CI/CD pipelines. John Reilly has an interesting post Reverse engineering the Azure Application Insights Transactions URL, if you use App Insights, it's an interesting investigation.

The endjin folks have been busy blogging this week: Jon George kicks off a series sharing our findings as we've migrated some of our applications from Azure Functions to Container Apps: Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps: Introduction, James Dawson has come up with a workaround for Using Azure CLI Authentication within Local Containers, Liam Mooney provides a worked example for Automating Excel in the Cloud with Office Scripts and Power Automate which is a useful starting point for any organisation that wants to improve productivity by automating Excel based business processes. James Broome kicks off a series about successfully planning and delivering data analytics projects on Azure Synapse & Power BI in Insight Discovery part 1 – why do data projects often fail, and this dovetails nicely with a Microsoft post on Building the Lakehouse - Implementing a Data Lake Strategy with Azure Synapse.

There's an interesting walkthrough of Durable Entities, and a similar video-based overview of Azure Chaos Studio, and following on from last week, Taiseer Joudeh publishes the next two parts in his series about Dapr & Azure: Azure Container Apps with Dapr Bindings Building Block – Part 7 and Azure Container Apps Monitoring and Observability with Application Insights – Part 8