Azure Weekly

Issue #451 - 28th January 2024

Highlights from this edition: first up in AI: LangChain Prompt Templates with OpenAI LLMs and Enable GPT failover with Azure OpenAI and Azure API Management

In DevOps: Connecting Azure to Azure DevOps with Federated Credentials and Service Connections and in Containers: Public facing Azure Container Registry Reference Architecture and A Practical Guide to Zone Redundant AKS Clusters and Storage

In Networking: Azure network monitoring with synthetic traffic and How to configure Entra Private Access to avoid VPN clients.

In IaaS: Infra in Azure for Developers - The How Part 1 and Automatic Image Creation using Azure VM Image Builder is now generally available and Create Analytic Rules to Query External Data in Microsoft Sentinel

In Analytics: Using Spark Connect from .NET to run Spark jobs on Databricks and Exploring the Spark Connect gRPC API

Finallly, we're only a few months away from SQLBits - the leading conference for data professionals to network, develop and share data knowledge. This year Ed Freeman and Barry Smart are running a 1 day workshop: DataOps: How to Deliver Data Faster and Better with Microsoft Cloud. Early Bird tickets are still available, but selling out fast!