Azure Weekly

Issue #460 - 31st March 2024

Following the trend from last week, there are a number of new retirement notices again. In AI there were a number of interesting posts focusing on "Responsible AI": Detect and Mitigate Ungrounded Model Outputs, and March Responsibly: Creating effective security guardrails with metaprompt/system message engineering. There's an interesting post about what powers all these AI services in: Annual Roundup of AI Infrastructure Breakthroughs for 2023, and a fascinating post about Leveraging Knowledge Graphs with Azure OpenAI.

It was the first Fabric Conference in Las Vegas this week, the pace of innovation in Microsoft Fabric is quite staggering, which you can see in the Microsoft Fabric March 2024 Update release notes. There's also an useful post detailing how to Grow your FinOps practice with the Microsoft community.

Two really very useful new features in Azure Container Apps were announced this week: Generally Available: Free managed certificates on Azure Container Apps and Public preview: Support for Key Vault Certificates in Azure Container Apps. There's also a useful guide to Azure Network Subnetting made easy.

A busy week at endjin; first up Ian Griffiths appeared on the Real-world Serverless podcast to give a Azure Functions Deep Dive, Barry Smart published his yearly summary of SQLbits 2024 - The Best Bits. Matthew Adams reflects on SQLBits in Data and AI Engineering Maturity - Fix our problems before we hit the buffers, and I unveiled a tool I've been working on for a few years: adr - A .NET Tool for Creating & Managing Architecture Decision Records.