Azure Weekly
Issue #470 - 9th June 2024
Another AI heavy edition, but exploring some interesting topic areas. Introducing Our New Whitepaper: GDPR & Generative AI – A Guide for Customers, and AI-as-a-Service: Architecting GenAI Application Governance with Azure API Management and Fabric, and DevOps in the era of Generative AI: Foundations of LLMOps, and AI+API better together: Benefits & Best Practices using APIs for AI workloads, and Doing RAG? Vector search is not enough.
In Analytics: Eventhouse OneLake Availability is Generally Available, and Validate CSV files before ingestion in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory Pipelines.
Finally in Cloud Native, this week marks 10 Years of Kubernetes and there's an interesting article about Advanced Network Observability – Supercharging Container Network Observability in Azure Kubernetes Service AKS.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Bruno Capuano (@elbruno) walks through Using Phi-3 & C# with ONNX for text and vision samples
- On the Azure Medium blog, Antonio Formato writed about Getting started with Microsofts Phi-3 on Ollama
- Pamela Fox asks Doing RAG? Vector search is not enough
- Karol Pieciukiewicz covers Retrieval Augmented Generation RAG Free for app Everyone Chat with your data
- Manny Sahota talks about Introducing Our New Whitepaper: GDPR & Generative AI – A Guide for Customers
- Helen Zeng discusses Document Intelligence and Index Creation Using Azure ML with Parallel Processing Part 1
- Shemer Steinlauf explains how to Enhancing Training Search Experience using Azure AI Video Indexer
- Arunkumar Gopalan discusses The Evolution of GenAI Application Deployment Strategy: Building Custom Co-Pilot PoC
- Farzad Sunavala writes about Using Cohere Binary Embeddings in Azure AI Search and Command R/R+ Model via Azure AI Studio
- Denise Schlesinger explains How to use Azure OpenAI GPT-4o with Function calling
- Anatoly Ponomarev covers Migrating OCR Enhancement from GPT-4 Turbo Vision Preview to GPT-4 Turbo GA
- Mike Gannotti blogs about Enabling ServiceNow Integration with Copilot for Microsoft 365 - HLS Copilot Snacks
- Zack Soenen asks How do I Make my LLM Chatbot Better?
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Anshul Sharma blogs about Eventhouse OneLake Availability is Generally Available
- Also on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Jianlei Shen announces New Data Factory Connectors Released in May 2024
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Ye Xu describes how to Boost performance and save costs with Fast Copy in Dataflows Gen2 and Aaron Merrill announces OneLake data access roles APIs
- Sean Lee provides a DP-600 Exam Study Guide - Implementing Analytics Solutions using Microsoft Fabric
- Amira Bedhiafi describes How to get started with Microsoft Fabric
- Eduardo Noriega covers Deployment rules for Notebooks: Enhancing Efficiency with Microsoft Fabric.
- Howard Ginsburg delves into AI-as-a-Service: Architecting GenAI Application Governance with Azure API Management and Fabric
- Jean Hayes explains how to Validate CSV files before ingestion in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory Pipelines
- On the Microsoft Mechanics show, Jeremy Chapman (@deployjeremy) and Courtney Berg talk about New Real-Time Intelligence in Microsoft Fabric Event-based actions andinsights
- Kevin Chant writes about his Initial tests of Git integration support for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouses
- Temidayo Omoniyi explains how to Automate ETL Processes with PySpark on a Windows Server
- Diponkar Paul delves into Bridging Snowflake and Azure Data Stack: A Step-by-Step Guide
🖥️ Compute
- Xavier Pillons blogs about Introducing Azure CycleCloud Slurm Workspace Preview
- Afia Boakye talks about Introducing GPU Innovations with Windows Server 2025
- On episode 378 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) and Ben Stegink (@benstegink) talk about Azure Compute Fleet
🚢 Containers
- On the Kubernetes Blog, Bob Killen celebrates 10 Years of Kubernetes
- On the Azure blog, Jordan Davis announces Advanced Container Networking Services for your Azure Kubernetes Service clusters
- On Diagrid Blog, Marc Duiker (@marcduiker) explains how to Build a browser-based multiplayer Tetris game using serverless Dapr APIs
- Also on Diagrid Blog, Bilgin Ibryam talks about Comparing Dapr Developer Tools for Efficient Development
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) delves into Advanced Network Observability – Supercharging Container Network Observability in Azure Kubernetes Service AKS
🗄️ Databases
- On the Azure blog, Kristin Gallagher talks about Raise the bar on AI-powered app development with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Claire Giordano (@clairegiordano) writes about Ultimate Guide to POSETTE: An Event for Postgres, 2024 edition
- Varun Dhawan writes about May 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- Eduardo Pivaral explains how to Build REST API with Azure Data API Builder DAB
- Abhiman Tiwari announces UNISTR and operator in Azure SQL Database
- Adithya Kumaranchath discusses Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Latency comparison between PGBouncer and Npgsql
- Kevin Gatimu (@_kevincomba) writes about Local Development using Azure Cosmos DB Emulator at no Cost
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) talk about the Azure SQL Database Availability metric
- Pieter Vanhove (@Pieter_Vanhove) writes about Always Encrypted vs Always Encrypted with secure enclaves
- Ebru Ersan covers SQL Server on Azure VMs: I/O analysis preview
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Sreekanth Thirthala Venkata explains how to Announcing: General Availability of Azure API Center extension for Visual Studio Code
- On the Visual Studio blog, McKenna Barlow introduces the Revamped Visual Studio Resource Explorer
- Chris Ayers writes about the New Login Experience for Azure Subscriptions with az login
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jim Harrer explains how to Get Hands-On with Visual Studio and Azure: Live at Microsoft HQ this August
- Aaron Powell (@slace) discusses Azure PostgreSQL, Entra ID Authentication and .NET
- Drew Skwiers-Koballa blogs about Updates from the 162.3 release of SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem
- On Visual Studio Magazine, David Ramel (@dramel) blogs about Java Devs in VS Code Can Now Ask Copilot for Syntax Rewrites, describes Microsoft Teases Discounts for August Dev Conference at Redmond HQ and writes about VS Code Insiders Get Copilot Chat AI-Enhanced Extensions in Latest Update
🔩 DevOps
- Lee Stott (@lee_stott) talks about DevOps in the era of Generative AI: Foundations of LLMOps
- On the Visual Studio blog, Ruben Rios (@rub8n) describes Giving our Azure marketplace images a makeover
- Nikita Nallamothu writes about Better Debuggability with Enhanced Logging in Azure Load Testing
🎭 Identity
- Ringe Chen shows how to Use Microsoft Entra to connect Azure Database for MySQL via Function App
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) writes Dont Use Entra DS to Replace Windows Active Directory
🔌 Integration
- Philip Dang blogs about Azure Event Grid SAS token authentication now in public preview
- Alex Zúñiga talks about Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - June 2024
- Bryan Bennett announces the Public Preview of Resubmit from an Action in Logic Apps Consumption Workflows
- Ibrahim Ali covers Event Grid Trigger: Validation handshake Failed on Event subscription deployment
- Mohammed Barqawi covers Logic App Standard Storage issues investigation using Slots
- Pedro Almeida explains how to Retrieve a Consumption Logic App workflow definition from deletion
- Reynaldo Montes de Oca discusses Azure Logic Apps PeekLock caching and Service Bus queue Lockduration
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) provides a Friday Fact: You can implement advanced routing scenarios by using conditional split actions inside Logic Apps
- Brad Wyatt explains How The ConnectWise Manage API Handles Pagination with PowerShell
📚 Learning
- On episode 300 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Jim Leonardo to talk about Leading Software Teams
⚖️ Management and Governance
- The Azure Updates Team announces Added support for Azure Monitor log search alert rules in Resource Health
- The Intune Support Team announces new Windows Autopilot onboarding experience for government and commercial customers
- Jill Armour says Act now: Updated benefits in partner-led offerings to land the adoption of Azure
🚌 Migration
- Abhishek Kumar explains the Architecture of Azure Database Migration Service
🌐 Networking
- On the Redmond magazine site, Gladys Rama blogs about Microsoft Releases Azure Bastion 'Premium' Preview
- On episode 496 of the Azure podcast, the podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Niko Pamboukas and Siri Velauthapillai to talk about Azure Boost
🔐 Security
- On the Azure Medium blog, Antonio Formato blogs about Building a Mitre Attack Navigator Layer and TTPs Timeline using Azure OpenAI
🔗 Web
- The Azure Updates Team announces General Availability: Audit logging in Azure API Management developer portal
- Sandro Pereira (@sandro_asp) writes about API Management Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks #5 How to dynamically rewrite the URI
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) covers Azure API Management Enable Tracing for an API
- Juliane Franze covers AI+API better together: Benefits & Best Practices using APIs for AI workloads
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) walks through Retrieving API Fields from an Azure Static Web App Using a Bash Script