Azure Weekly

Issue #443 - 5th November 2023

Quite a lot of varied and interesting set of articles this week. Starting with AI: Semantic Kernel-Powered OpenAI Plugin Development Lifecycle and Generative AI for Beginners - A 12-Lesson Course, and Teach ChatGPT to Answer Questions: Using Azure Cognitive Search & Azure OpenAI Services, and Create a Simple Speech REST API with Azure AI Speech Services.

In the Cloud Native space: Deploying an Azure Kubernetes Service AKS Cluster with Application Gateway for Containers and Azure Container Registry – cost optimization, and Choreography, or Orchestration, That is the Wrong Question, and TCP Proxy with Istio on AKS

Within security: Zero Trust Architecture for Azure Managed Databases and Assume breach and minimize the impact with network security groups.

And, around developer productivity: Azure CLI Copilot - which lets you talk to the Azure CLI with natural language prompts, What's new for IT pros in Windows 11, version 23H2, with a specific call out for the new Developer features such as Dev Drives, there's a great video Performance Testing a DevDrive on Windows 11 by Scott Hanselman, which covers all the main points of how to get it up and running.

Finally, the Cloud Native Rejekts conference is currently happening in Chicago, and I caught up with the Day 1 videos this morning. The two highlights for me were; Caleb Schoepp's Introduction to WebAssembly and Ralph Squillace & Andrew Randall talking about WASM Optimized Linux: what, how, and, most importantly why? Very interesting and well worth an hour of your life.