Azure Weekly

Issue #394 - 6th November 2022

There's a mixed bag of interesting content this week. Firstly there's an article about Data mesh: A perspective on using Azure Synapse Analytics to build data products, which was the main theme at the recent Big Data LDN conference, which Eli Gascon covers in her blog post: Big Data LDN highlights and how to survive your first data conference

There's another theme this week around creating reliable software; Prepare for holiday shopping season with Azure Load Testing, and Chaos Engineering for Cloud native Apps and Build a globally resilient architecture with Azure Load Balancer

General Availability of Multivariate Anomaly Detection has been announced. Anomaly Detection is an incredibly useful technology that more orgs should make use of, we produced a talk about Detecting Anomalies in IoT Telemetry with Azure Synapse Analytics a couple of years ago. Well worth a watch. Roy Hopkins writes a fascinating article about Confidential Computing with Serverless Functions, and on the recent theme of optimising cloud budgets Azure App Service announces more ways to save on compute costs.

.NET Interactive Notebooks is now Polyglot Notebooks!. We absolutely love this technology. You can use them to run C#, F#, PowerShell, JavaScript, SQL, KQL (Kusto Query Language), HTML, and Mermaid diagrams. We use it to do experiments (not just data science, but any code based hypothesis testing), to perform benchmarking of Azure services and code. We use them to provide documentation including interactive code examples and we use them as runbooks to perform maintenance or migration operations. In short, it's a technology you should all be using.

Finally, our Modern Data DevOps with Azure Synapse Analytics Workshop in London was a big success. Hopefully we'll be running it again soon, possibly virtually. Well done Ian & Ed!