Azure Weekly
Issue #481 - 25th August 2024
Starting with Analytics, Ian Griffiths shares tips on generate Per-Property Rows from JSON in Spark on Microsoft Fabric and James Broome shares his SQLBits 2024 talk How to ensure quality and avoid inaccuracies in your data insights. Brian Sherwin provides a guide to Visualizing Data as Graphs with Fabric and KQL.
Next up, two Azure Function posts: Containerising Azure Functions without Dockerfile, and Running Azure Functions in Container Apps with Terraform.
In AI, A better Phi Family is coming - multi-language support, better vision, intelligence MOEs, and Client-Side Compute: A Greener Approach to Natural Language Data Queries.
Finally, Michiel van Oudheusden shares Unlocking the Potential of Azure Free Services on the new Azure FinOps Essentials blog.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- On the Redmond magazine site, John K. Waters explains how to Sway AI Integrates Platform with Microsoft Azure
- Farzad Sunavala writes about Binary quantization in Azure AI Search: optimized storage and faster search
- Lee Stott provides A better Phi Family is coming - multi-language support, better vision, intelligence MOEs
- Qinying Liao talks about Text to Speech Avatar in Azure AI is now generally available
- Vinod Kurpad describes Azure AI Document Intelligence now previewing field extraction with Generative AI and more
- Yina Arenas blogs about Introducing AI21 Labs Jamba 1.5 Large and Jamba 1.5 Mini on Azure AI Models-as-a-Service
- Thomas Thornton (@tamstar1234) explains how to AI Meets Development: An Overview of the AI Enhanced Platform AEP
- Dan Narloch discusses Azure OpenAI Service is FedRAMP High and Copilot for Microsoft 365 GCC High and DOD GA update and talks about Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 GCC GA Update: Empowering Public Sector Innovation
- Gia Mondragon explains how to Integrated vectorization with Azure OpenAI for Azure AI Search now generally available
- Adina Trufinescu explains how to Discover the New Multi-Lingual, High-Quality Phi-3.5 SLMs
- Sharda Kaur writes about the Azure AI Model Inference API
- Shikha Ghildiyal talks about Speech Services- Restrict Outbound Access
- Varsha Parthasarathy discusses Document Field Extraction with Generative AI
- Mamta Dalal delves into Data Prediction with SQL Server Machine Learning Services, Python, and Linear Regression
- Jorge Garcia Ximenez describes a Baseline Agentic AI Systems Architecture
- Glaucia Lemos covers LangChain.js + Azure: A Generative AI App Journey
🔎 Analytics
- James Broome (@jamesbroome_) shares his SQLBits 2024 talk: How to ensure quality and avoid inaccuracies in your data insights.
- On the endjin blog, Ian Griffiths (@idg10) delves into Per-Property Rows from JSON in Spark on Microsoft Fabric
- Ashish Chhabria covers 100% Kafka parity on Event Hubs: Kafka Streams and Kafka Transactions now in Public Preview
- Adi Eldar demonstrates an Advanced Time Series Anomaly Detector in Fabric
- Brian Sherwin walks through Visualizing Data as Graphs with Fabric and KQL
- Kevin Chant (@kevchant) writes about the Latest Microsoft Fabric security white paper updates
- Yoav Dobrin writes about Client-Side Compute: A Greener Approach to Natural Language Data Queries
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Sean Mirabile explores CI/CD Capabilities in Microsoft Fabric: A Focus on Data Pipelines
- Naveed Hussain describes Implementing Data Vault 2.0 on Fabric Data Warehouse
🖥️ Compute
- Brittany Rowe announces Public Preview of Instance Mix on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
- Thiago Almeida (@nzthiago) blogs about Azure Functions Newsletter – August 2024
- Tigar Cyr covers What is Azure HPC?
- Akshita Vijay describes how to Bulk delete all the old jobs from the batch account
🚢 Containers
- Karol Pieciukiewicz walks through Running Azure Functions in Container Apps with Terraform
- Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) walks through Containerising Azure Functions without Dockerfile
- Melanie Kraintz blogs about Scaling New Heights: Azure Red Hat OpenShift Now Supports 250 Nodes
- Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes WTH is AKS Automatic?
🗄️ Databases
- Shreya R. Aithal covers Azure Database for MySQL - July 2024 updates and latest feature roadmap
- Sakshi Gupta explains how to Automate shrink database in Azure SQL
- Sakshi Gupta demonstrates General Purpose to Business Critical Azure SQL database upgrade
🛠️ Developer Tools
- On the Visual Studio blog, Harshada Hole writes about New debugging and diagnostic features
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Rhea Patel walks through Enhancing Code Comprehension: GitHub Copilots Features in Visual Studio 2022 17.11
- Leo Yao announces the General Availability of the VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning
- Also on the Visual Studio blog, Sy Brand writes about New C++ features in Visual Studio v17.11
- On the Visual Studio blog, Jessie Houghton writes about New git tooling features
- On Visual Studio Magazine - Blogs, David Ramel (@dramel) covers Content Exclusion Is Latest of Many New Visual Studio Copilot Features
- Artem Mikulich discusses Is Now the Right Time to Start Using Azure Data Studio
🔩 DevOps
- Dan Hellem writes about New Boards Hub Rollout Update
- Gloridel Morales writes about New Azure DevOps Server Roadmap
- Jihye Eom blogs about Introducing Object Limit Tracker in Azure DevOps
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Lior Kamrat (@liorkamrat) describes Introducing ArcBox 3.0 General Availability
🔌 Integration
- Divya Swarnkar discusses Announcement Templates for Azure Logic Apps Standard are now in Public Preview
- LP-Pavan announces Generally Available Now: Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud – An Azure Native ISV Service
- Kevin Guo announces MQTT Support in Azure Web PubSub Service public preview
- Fernando Rocha covers Dapr & Service Mesh: What Are They, & How Do They Complement Each Other For Distributed Apps
- On By Sandro Pereira's blog, Luis Rigueira writes 'Copilot is here' and provides a Friday Fact: Two AI Assistants Now Available on Logic Apps: Copilot and Workflow Assistant
💡 Internet of Things
- Jill Armour talks about Partner Case Study Series Cloud of Things & Marketplace Rewards
📚 Learning
- Mike Tholfsen explains how to Unleash the power and fun of learning with colorful Microsoft Education Quick Guides - Summer 2024
- Pamela Fox blogs about RAGHack: Free global hackathon Sept 3rd -13th 2024
- On episode 311 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) and David Starr talk about Azure Cloud Marketplaces
- On the Ctrl+Alt+Azure podcast, Tobias Zimmergren & Jussi Roine (@CtrlAltAzure) talk about Microsoft Tech Updates
- Joe Lurie provides a Skilling snack: Mobile device management in Microsoft Intune
⚖️ Management and Governance
- On the Azure FinOps Essentials site, Michiel van Oudheusden (@mivano) shares his guide to Unlocking the Potential of Azure Free Services.
- Kayla Ngan blogs about Feature Deep Dive: Export for OneDrive Sync Health Reports
- Jose Barreto describes How to find OneDrive users not running Sync
- Eduardo Noriega explains Purview concepts: Domains, Business Domains, Collections, Data Products and Data Assets.
- Thomas Maurer (@thomasmaurer) – Video: Learn to Budget & Optimize in Microsoft Azure
- Jonas Ohmsen explains How-To Migrate ConfigMgr Apps to Intune Win32Apps
🌐 Networking
- David Frazee talks about Getting Started with Azure WAF REST API for Azure Front Door: A Step-by-Step Guide
🔐 Security
- Alex Klausner explains how to What's new: Multi-tenancy in the unified security operations platform experience in Public Preview
- Mike Browning talks about Introducing the MDTI Article Digest
- Yael Bergman writes about Comprehensive coverage and cost-savings with Microsoft Sentinels new data tier
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) explains how to Rotate Microsoft Sentinel Repositories Connections Effectively
- Abhi Singh discusses Securing Multi-Cloud Gen AI workloads using Azure Native Solutions
- Jon Nordstrm writes Learn how to customize and optimize Copilot for Security with the custom Data Security plugin, describes Cybersecurity in a context that allows your organization to achieve more, provides a Guided walkthrough of the Microsoft Purview extended report experience and explains How to build the Microsoft Purview extended report experience
- Karam Abu Hanna writes about Critical Cloud Assets: Identifying and Protecting the Crown Jewels of your Cloud
- On episode 503 of the Azure podcast, the Azure Podcast team (@AzurePodcast) delve into the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative
- David Giard (@DavidGiard) writes that the Secure Future Initiative Aims to Increase Security
- Innocent Wafula writes about Harnessing the power of KQL Plugins for enhanced security insights with Copilot for Security
- Srija Reddy Allam covers Web app and API vulnerabilities, and how to secure them with Azure and Fortinet
📦 Storage
- Ryan Draper writes about Latest advancements in Premium SSD v2 and Ultra Azure Managed Disks
- Jake Walsh (@jakewalsh90) provides Guidance and Considerations for Azure NetApp Files Replication Cross Zone & Cross Region when using Terraform
- Shikha Ghildiyal shows how to Troubleshoot Policy Issues for Sending logs to Log Analytics/Storage Account for Azure Resources
🔗 Web
- Glaucia Lemos explains how to Transform Application Development with .NET Aspire: Seamless Integration with JavaScript and Node.js
- Glaucia Lemos writes about This Month in Azure Static Web Apps 07/2024
- Glaucia Lemos talks about Azure Static Web Apps Community Standup: Create a RAG App with App Spaces
- Ringe Chen blogs about Azure Linux Web App and http server