Azure Weekly

Issue #456 - 3rd March 2024

A varied selection of articles this week. Let's start with AI; Fine Tuning with Function Calling on Azure OpenAI Service and Cost Optimized hosting of Fine-tuned LLMs in Production.

Lots of Analytics updates this week, highlights include; Introducing Managed Private Endpoints for Microsoft Fabric in Public Preview, What is Eventstream in Microsoft Fabric - Part 1, and a some great Enhanced Performance in Additional Regions: Azure Synapse Analytics Spark Boosted by up to 77%.

In App Dev; Path and hostname-based routing in Azure Container Apps with NGINX, Everything you need to know about Azure Public & Private DNS, and App Configuration: where does it go.

Finally, Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals, we've been using it at endjin for a while now. We use it to put a UI over our large open source estate. We've built a number of plugins for surfacing engineering practices metrics, security and compliance information, like OpenChain. Our instance runs in Azure Container Apps, but there's a great article about Introduction and Deployment of Backstage on Azure Kubernetes Service.