Azure Weekly

Issue #480 - 18th August 2024

First up in Web and App Dev, two Container Apps articles; Asynchronous HTTP APIs with Azure Container Apps jobs, and Integrating Workload profile Container App with Front Door and Application Gateway Private Link. For APIs: Implementing AI Gateway capabilities in API Management, and Benchmark Testing puts you on the path to peak API Performance. A really nice article on the differences between Static Sites on Azure Storage vs Azure Static Web Apps, as we've just migrated the Azure Weekly (and Power BI Weekly) website from Azure Storage to Azure Static Web Apps, I can vouch for the benefits of Azure Static Web Apps.

In Analytics and AI: a great Microsoft Fabric reference architecture and Extending Microsoft Copilot for Security Capabilities with Azure Function Apps. In Identity and Security: Face Check is now generally available and a usefulAzure Mandatory MFA Planning Guide – Boost Security. We've been featuring useful FinOps articles this year and here are two more this week: Azure FinOps: Introduction and Assessments, and Gain FinOps skills to unlock cloud value, on Microsoft Learn.

Finally, The Linux Foundation asked Charlotte Gayton to present a webinar about her 2 years of effort (1 year during an industrial placement, and her final year project) to Implement OpenChain across endjin's InnerSource and Open Source estate. OpenChain is an ISO standard for Open Source License Compliance (ISO/IEC 5230) and Security Assurance (ISO/IEC 18974). The link to the recording of the webinar contains the full transcript, slides, and Charlotte's final year dissertation. Well done Charlotte!