Azure Weekly

Issue #439 - 8th October 2023

To start off, two interesting in-depth articles, the first on Understanding the Difference in Using Different Large Language Models: Step-by-Step Guide and the second offers a Brief Comparison of Database, Data Warehouse, Data Mart and Data Lake and these services in Azure.

Three noteworthy announcements this week: Just-in-time access to groups and Conditional Access integration in Privileged Identity Management, Playwright as a Service has been released: Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps (I'm a big Playwright fan, the last blog post I published was how to deal with 2FA autehntication) and TDE with database-level CMK now generally available for Azure SQL Database.

Three more posts worth reading: Getting Started With Microsoft Graph PowerShell for Microsoft Entra ID, What is a Managed Private Endpoint? and Access internal applications with Entra Application Proxy.

Finally, while I was collating the edition this morning I was sad to learn of the passing of Vittorio Bertocci (@vibronet). Anyone in the field of Identity or has integrated Azure AD or Auth0 will have come across his work. His book "Modern Authentication with Azure Active Directory for Web Applications" was well read by everyone at endjin. Condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. RIP.