Azure Weekly

Issue #391 - 16th October 2022

As it's the week of Microsoft Ignite 2022, this edition is somewhat epic in length due to the number of general availability and public preview announcements; so I'd suggest you prepare your favourite beverage and settle into read this issue. As ever a great place to start is Microsoft's very own Book of News, which has a summary of of the main announcements. You can catch up on all the sessions, or you can focus on the spotlights for different geographic areas (UK / Latin America / Japan / Germany / France / China).

I've not had a chance to watch many sessions yet, but have bookmarked a few: Making cloud native easier: Architecting the next-gen Azure PaaS, Automated cloud application testing with Azure and Playwright, Hidden gems and live coding with .NET 7 (why isn't your app scaling?), Ask the Experts: Introducing Microsoft Syntex – Content AI for the Microsoft Cloud, Deep dive into Dapr.io and Cloud Native Architectures, and Inside Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich

I also wanted to highlight some good articles from endjin folk as I know how much work has gone into writing each of these, and it would be a shame for them to be drowned out by all the annoucements from Ignite. Mike Larah shares 5 lessons learnt from using Power Automate to automate a complex business process. Jon George continues his series "Bye bye Azure Functions, Hello Azure Container Apps" with part 3 covering Build and deployment pipelines, and our first big problem. James Broome published the final two parts of his series about planning and delivering successful and impactful data analytics projects - Deliver insights incrementally with data pipelines and How to define business requirements for a successful cloud data & analytics project. Barry Smart publishes the final part in his series focusing on Total Cost of Ownership and how it applies to IT projects (including cloud modernization and cost optimization.) in Putting total cost of ownership (TCO) into action. He also kicks off a new series: What are Synapse Analytics Database Templates and why should you use them? And finally a reminder of our free, in-person Modern Data DevOps (Data Mesh + Lake House) with Azure Synapse Analytics Workshop in London (UK) on Nov 2nd.