Azure Weekly

Issue #390 - 9th October 2022

A relatively quiet week before the Microsoft Ignite Conference (expect a bumper edition next week!). One of the bigger announcements this week is that Azure Firewall Basic now in preview. This is targeted at smaller organisations / branch offices and seems to be 1/3 of the price of Azure Firewall Standard. There's an interesting post from Mark Russinovich and Jeffrey He: Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps - introducing AiDice.

In the data analytics space there are two interesting articles: How to work with Python in Azure Data Studio and Learn Data Science and Machine Learning in 30 Days..

This week I finally had some bandwidth to migrate endjin.com to Azure Static Web Apps (from Netlify). It was a smooth process, which mainly involved creating a new GitHub Actions workflow for our custom .NET based static site generator, writing a migration script (using .NET Interactive) to convert from the Netlify redirect format to SWA's JSON configuration file and adding some settings to deal with SEO optimisations. With zero code changes we've already notched up our PageSpeed Insight score a couple of points.

Because of the migration, we only published two posts this week: Barry Smart continues his series on IT Budgets in How to calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO). James Broome published part 5 in his series on running Data Analytics project Deliver insights incrementally with data pipelines.

Finally, we're running a free 1-day, in-person workshop about creating a modern data lake (house) architecture with full DevOps on Azure Synapse Analytics in London (UK) on Wednesday Nov 2nd 2022. This is an in-person (not virtual) event. Full workshop agenda can be found here and to register your interest use this form. Spaces are limited.