Azure Weekly

Issue #457 - 10th March 2024

In order to tackle the increasing volumes of spam and phishing emails, various email providers are increasing their requirements for DMARC, as we produce both Azure Weekly and Power BI Weekly, we had to ensure we made those changes before the February deadline. It wasn't a painful process, but it did take a bit of research and testing. There are four really good posts on this subject in case you still need to make these changes for your own organisations: Microsoft Defender for Office 365-Configure SPF email authentication for Microsoft 365 domains Configure DKIM email authentication for Microsoft 365 Custom domains, Configure DMARC email authentication for Microsoft 365 Custom Domains, and finally Configure trusted ARC sealers email authentication for Microsoft 365 Custom domains.

In Analytics, Jonathan George provides an Introduction to Python Logging in Synapse Notebooks, and following on from last week' post: Reading Data from Event Hubs into Eventstream and a Lakehouse Table - Part 2. Coupling Data Flows: Data Pipelines and Orchestration - Data Engineering Process Fundamentals and Mastering Azure SQL Encryption for Better Data Protection, and Load Test Emulation for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server using mysqlslap.

Two posts around AI: Store and query embeddings in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with pgvector, and a useful guide to Optimizing Azure OpenAI: A Guide to Limits, Quotas, and Best Practices.

In DevOps and Cloud Native App Dev: Managing your Azure Resources with Deployment Stacks, Azure Storage Actions vs. Lifecycle Management, the Azure Container Apps Newsletter – March 2024 (which has a bit of a focus on Java), and Azure Verified Modules - Monthly Update February.

Around Management, Governance and security, there are two interesting posts: Designing Network Security To Combat Modern Threats and the Public Preview of Change Actor.

Finally, James Broome has written a great set of thoughts, reflecting on spending the last few years building no code/low code solutions solutions, with his Director of Engineering hat on:No-code/Low-code is software DIY - how do you avoid DIY disaster?. If you don't want to read, there's a good audio version available too.