Azure Weekly

Issue #448 - 10th December 2023

This is going to be the last edition for 2023. It's been an incredibly busy year and I'm looking forward to a few weeks to decompress before it all starts again in 2024. I wanted to say a big thank you to all the readers, and the contributors - the newsletter only exists to amplify the great content you produce.

To start off - some updates from the data and analytics space: Microsoft Fabric real-time analytics exploration: Managed Grafana integration and Performing Change Data Capture CDC of MySQL tables using FlinkSQL, and Using Spark to track PowerBI Activity Events, and Migrating from Amazon RDS for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL online using Azure DMS.

In Cloud Native Apps; Azure Container Apps Newsletter – December 2023, Generally Available: Azure Functions support on Apple Silicon Macs. Two interesting posts on GitOps: Deploying Azure AKS with Application Gateway and Flux extension – An introduction to GitOps and Deploying Azure AKS GitOps Flux extension with Terraform.

There are a few interesting articles around the web and app integration space: Smart load balancing for OpenAI endpoints and Azure API Management, and Passing Complex Objects to .NET Framework Custom Code in Azure Logic Apps Standard, and Build and deploy .NET 8 Blazor WASM apps with serverless APIs using Azure Static Web Apps, and Azure Bastion: Enable Azure Bastion Standard SKU features with Azure PowerShell, and How to use a cloud native DNS resolver in Azure.

Finally, two posts from us; the first is one I asked James Dawson to write - to showcase how we use Polyglot Notebooks for Ops - especially them as runbooks for deploying into Azure. And the second post in our series on benchmarking the performance improvements we've seen from .NET 8.0. This post is by Matthew Adams: How .NET 8.0 boosted JSON Schema performance by 20%. See you all again in the new year!