Azure Weekly
Issue #479 - 11th August 2024
First up, in Analytics, Choosing a File Format - Data Engineering with Fabric, there's also a useful article on Azure SQL Benchmark: Comparing Performances Between DTU and vCore, and walkthrough about Compelling Data Storytelling with Power BI: Global Brand Insights - 20 Years of Financial Trends.
Two price reduction announcements: Azure OpenAI Global Batch Offering: Efficient processing at scale with 50% less cost and lower pricing for Azure App Service Premium P0v3 to help build and modernize AI apps.
Finally, Demystifying Microsoft Sentinel Multi-Tier Logging, a Public Preview: Customer Managed Planned Failover for Azure Storage and General Availability of Workspaces in Azure API Management.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Nitya Narasimhan writes about New Hugging Face Models on Azure AI: Multilingual, SLM and BioMed- July 2024 Update
- Sethu Raman (@sethu20) announces Azure OpenAI Global Batch Offering: Efficient processing at scale with 50% less cost
- Facundo Santiago covers Expanding the Azure AI Model Inference API: Integrating Azure AI into Your Development Environment
- On the Azure Developer Community Blog, Neta Morag walks through Building HyDE powered RAG chatbots using Microsoft Azure AI Models & Dataloop
- Priya Kedia provides a Guidebook to reduce latency for Azure Speech-To-Text STT and Text-To-Speech TTS applications
- On episode 309 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Jason Haley to talk about Azure Services For Artificial Intelligence
- Luca Stamatescu covers GraphRAG Costs Explained: What You Need to Know
🔎 Analytics
- On the Microsoft Fabric Blog, Nellie Gustafsson introduces AI Skills in Microsoft Fabric
- Also on Microsoft Fabric Blog, Someleze Diko blogs about Acting on Real-Time data using custom actions with Data Activator
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) describes How to Manage Access Control for a Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse
- On the endjin blog, Barry Smart (@barry_j_a_smart) showcases Compelling Data Storytelling with Power BI: Global Brand Insights - 20 Years of Financial Trends
- Inbal Silis discusses Securing Microsoft Fabric: User Authentication & Authorization Guidelines
- Kevin Chant (@kevchant) covers Naming conventions for Microsoft Fabric Git integration repositories and branches
- On SQL Server Central, John Miner discusses Choosing a File Format - Data Engineering with Fabric
- Temidayo Omoniyi blogs about Provisioning with Azure CLI and Automating a Python ETL Pipeline
- David Callaghan talks about Reducing Technical Debt with Databricks System Tables
🚢 Containers
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) explains How to Delete a Node from a Node Pool in AKS Preview
- Aditya Kumar blogs about Leveraging Azure Copilot for Azure Kubernetes Services AKS
- Palash Chandra walks through Monitoring GPU Metrics in AKS with Azure Managed Prometheus, DCGM Exporter and Managed Grafana
🗄️ Databases
- Tameika Lawrence explains how to Managed HSM support for Azure Database for MySQL – Flexible Server General Availability
- Varun Dhawan covers July 2024 Recap: Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server
- On the Data Exposed show, Anna Hoffman (@AnalyticAnna) talks about Database Watcher: Your perfmon in the cloud Data Exposed
- Artem Mikulich delves into Azure SQL Benchmark: Comparing Performances Between DTU and vCore
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) writes about With .NET 6 Support Ending, Security Vulnerabilities Loom and describes ABP Ships Community Edition of Open Source .NET Dev Framework
- On the Visual Studio blog, Carlos Guerra Vazquez covers Introducing the revamped Attach to Process experience
- Devis Lucato walks through Introducing Semantic Workbench: Your Gateway to Agentic AI Development
- Hamna Khalil explains how to Build your own AI Text-to-Image Generator in Visual Studio Code
- Daniel Falkner discusses When to use AzCopy versus Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI
🔩 DevOps
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) blogs about a Problem running Playwright UX tests on hosted Github Actions Runners and covers Powershell token replacement failing for MSDeploy in GitHub Action
- Elio Struyf (@eliostruyf) explains how Set Azure DevOps pipeline variables with Node.js scripts
- Jack Roper describes How to Use Terraform on Microsoft Azure
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) provides a Step-by-Step Guide to Optimising Azure NSG Rules creation with Terraform: try Function and foreach Explained
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Richard M. Hicks (@richardhicks) blogs about Microsoft Security Service Edge Now Generally Available
🎭 Identity
- Alex Weinert discusses Public preview: Microsoft Entra ID FIDO2 provisioning APIs
- Sarthak Agarwal provides an Azure Role Assignments Audit Report
🔌 Integration
- Alex Zúñiga discusses Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - August 2024
- Gyanendra Kumar Gautam blogs about August 5, 2024 Weekly Update on Microsoft Integration Platform & Azure iPaaS
- Luis Rigueira provides Friday Fact: Logic App Connectors Outlast HTTP Connectors in Default Retry Policies Timeouts
- Mohit Khanna explains how to Subscribe to Azure Storage Blob Lifecycle Policy Events
- Parth Shah explains how to Integrate Logic App workflows as plugins with Semantic Kernel: Step-by-step guide
- Wagner Silveira blogs about Logic Apps Standard - Service Bus In-App connector improvements for Peek-lock operations
📚 Learning
- Lee Stott blogs about GitHub Model Catalog - Getting Started
- Danny Guillory provides a Skilling snack: Go cloud first with Windows device management
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Sunayana Singh covers Operator/CRD support with Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus is now Generally Available
- The Intune Support Team delves into Troubleshooting managed installer deployments in Microsoft Intune
🌐 Networking
- Melanie Kraintz describes Enhancing Security and Control: Bring Your Own NSG to Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift Clusters
- Saleem Bseeu blogs about Leveraging Azure DDoS protection with WAF rate limiting
🔐 Security
- John Joyner (@john_joyner) introduces a New Microsoft Sentinel automation solution: Create-incident-on-missing-Data-Source
- Epsiode 250 of the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast with Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) - A look at Microsoft Sentinel auxiliary logs
- Vipul Dabhi blogs about Enhancing Security Monitoring: Integrating GitLab Cloud Edition with Microsoft Sentinel
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) covers Demystifying Microsoft Sentinel Multi-Tier Logging
📦 Storage
- Imani Hall talks about Public Preview: Customer Managed Planned Failover for Azure Storage
- Shaikh Uzzair writes about Seamless GitHub Integration with Azure Storage for Enhanced Cloud File Management
🔗 Web
- Mike Budzynski (@mbudzynski) announces General Availability of Workspaces in Azure API Management
- Mayunk Jain announces lower pricing for Azure App Service Premium P0v3 to help build and modernize AI apps
- On episode 1910 of the .NET Rocks podcast, Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell (@richcampbell) talk about Azure API Management's GenAI Gateway with Andrei Kamenev
- Luke Murray (@lukemurraynz) delves into the Features and Benefits of Azure API Management
- Chris Noring (@chris_noring) explains how to Manage your Generative AI APIs with Azure API Management and Azure Open AI
- Ringe Chen writes Super fast creating react app with Microsoft Entra on Azure Web app
- Erik Ejlskov Jensen explains how to Create a CRUD Web API in minutes with Data API Builder and EF Core Power Tools
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Christiaan Brinkhoff (@Brinkhoff_C) discusses Windows in the Cloud Windows App: what's new and what's next
- Rinku Dalwani covers Custom Shortpath settings for host pools now available