Azure Weekly

Issue #434 - 3rd September 2023

Quite a busy issue for the last week of August. First up in the AI space: An Introduction to LLMOps: Operationalizing and Managing Large Language Models using Azure ML, and a particularly cool example of Revolutionizing SQL Queries with Azure Open AI and Semantic Kernel. I've been experimenting with something similar with Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web technologies.

In the Data & Analytics space: Azure Synapse Analytics Serverless SQL Pools to Replace the Interactive SPARK Clusters and a guide about How to Pause or Start Microsoft Fabric Capacity Automatically, and From Azure SQL DB to EF Core Web API using only cross platform CLI tools.

In the Apps space: QUIC based HTTP/3 with Application Gateway: Feature information Private Preview, and from Patrick van Kleef a new site focusing on Zero Trust topics, has two posts: Secure Azure PaaS services with Azure Private Link and Centralize management with the hub-spoke network topology.

There's a useful looking command line tool: AZQR: Azure Quick Review which "scans your Azure resources and generates an Excel report with detailed information and recommendations based on Azure's best practices".

Finally, for the last year Charlotte Gayton has been on an Industrial Placement at endjin as part of her Computer Science BEng. We gave her a project to implement the OpenChain ISO 5230 standard for open source license compliance across our open source estate. Charlotte wrapped up her placement this week and has written a detailed blog post about the work she did Implementing the OpenChain Specification.