Azure Weekly

Issue #442 - 29th October 2023

I wanted to start by wishing a very Happy 10th Birthday to Azure Friday, which has produced over 750 episodes in that time.

There are a few interesting updates to Azure Functions this week: GA: Performance optimizations for the isolated worker model in .NET Azure Functions and GA: Service Bus message settlement in isolated worker model for .NET Azure Functions and a nice guide to Migrating to v4 Azure Functions Node.js with TypeScript.

Three other articles of note: Service Endpoints vs Private Endpoints, and Secure an Angular application using Microsoft Entra External ID and ASP.NET Core with BFF. Microsoft unveiled Radius a few weeks ago and we're starting to see communinity blogs exploring it: Working with Recipes and Gateways in Microsofts Radius.

In Analytics; From RabbitMQ to PowerBI reports with Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Analytics, and two Databricks articles: Understanding Databricks Unity Catalog for Unified Data Governance, and Create Parameter Driven Databricks Engineering Notebooks.

Finally, if you're interested in Microsoft Fabric, Ed Freeman is presenting Data Engineering an End-to-End Solution with Microsoft Fabric at the Oxford Microsoft Data Platform Group on Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 18:30 GMT. If you don't live near Oxford UK, don't worry, the event is hybrid and you can join online as well as in-person. This hour long session continues his excellent Microsoft Fabric YouTube series.