Azure Weekly

Issue #435 - 10th September 2023

To start off, two conference reminders; Microsoft Ignite is on from the 14th - 17th November in Seattle and Online, and Microsoft Data & AI Conference in Las Vegas 10-15th December. Sticking with Data & AI, if you keep hearing about embeddings and vectors but don't know what they are, Episode 472 of the Azure Podcast covers Azure Vector Search Unveiled, and there's also a Step-by-Step Guide for Bringing your own Data to Azure OpenAI.

Two AKS posts of interest: AKS: Login with Azure CLI and Workload Identity, and How to install an AKS cluster with Azure Managed Prometheus and Azure Managed Grafana via Bicep.

Three other articles of interest Intrusion Detection and Prevention System IDPS Based on Signatures, a very useful tool: AzSaveMoney - Clean-up unused resources and save money and energy in your Azure environment. and a dive into Upgrading to container app environment workload profiles - or not?

Finally, a few weeks ago I mentioned The Green Software Foundation and that code = energy (= carbon) = cost. The more efficient the code, the less energy it uses, the less carbon it emits, and the less it costs to run. Jon George has written a series of blog post looking at Optimising .NET code (using an Advent of Code challenge as an example): Introduction, Hunting for allocations, Let's blame LINQ, and Avoiding allocations using Span<T>.