Azure Weekly
Issue #496 - 8th December 2024
A short and sweet edition this week. Highlights include: Azure Artifacts: Publish a private npm package with Azure DevOps, and Power Automate and KQL integration, and Building a Restaurant Management System with Azure Database for MySQL and Effective Approach To Collect Linux Logs to Microsoft Sentinel. Managing Terraform State while using Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server Point-in-Time Recovery, and Use AI and Power Automate to parse form questions.
Finally, two articles about Fabric: Eventhouse Query Acceleration for OneLake Shortcuts Preview and Unlocking the power of Real-Time Data with OneLake Events.
⚙️ AI + Machine Learning
- Karl Harriau writes about Multiple language support and custom glossary for document translation are now generally available
- Pamela Fox walks through Entity extraction with Azure OpenAI Structured Outputs
- Nikhil Pandey talks about Distillation: Turning Smaller Models into High-Performance, Cost-Effective Solutions
- On episode 326 of the Azure DevOps podcast, Jeffrey Palermo (@jeffreypalermo) is joined by Greg Leonardo to talk about the latest in Azure & AI
- Milan Kaur explains how to Build your own real-time voice agent - Announcing preview of bidirectional audio streaming APIs
- Leo Visser (@autosysops) describes how to Use AI and Power Automate to parse form questions
🔎 Analytics
- On Microsoft Fabric Blog, Michal Bar announces Real-Time Dashboards generally available, writes about Easily recreate your ADX dashboards as Real-Time Dashboards in Fabric and Miguel Llopis discusses Data Factory Announcements at Ignite 2024 Recap
- Ashish Chhabria announces the General Availability of Event Hubs Data Explorer
- Mustafa Al-Durra writes about General Availability - Medical imaging DICOM in healthcare data solutions in Microsoft Fabric
- Someleze Diko explains how to Enhance fraud detection with Activator in Microsoft Fabric
- Gali Reznick writes about Understanding Real-Time Intelligence usage reporting and billing
- Anshul Sharma announces Eventhouse Query Acceleration for OneLake Shortcuts Preview
- Yo-Lei Chen tours the Query Editor in SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
- Harmeet Gill blogs about Unlocking the power of Real-Time Data with OneLake Events
- Koen Verbeeck (@Ko_Ver) explains how to Manage Azure Data Factory pipelines in Microsoft Fabric
- Ayush writes Know the ways to control who can access what data in Azure Synapse DW
- Dharmendra Keshari provides A Practical Guide to Implement End-to-End Data Warehousing PoC Using Microsoft Fabric
🖥️ Compute
- On epiosde 509 of the Azure podcast, the Podcast team (@AzurePodcast) are joined by Thiago Almeida to talk about Azure Functions Flex Consumption
- On episode 508 of The Azure Podcast, the Podcast team (@AzurePodcast) discuss the Ignite Book of News 2024
🚢 Containers
- Richard Hooper (@Pixel_Robots) discusses Amazon EKS Auto Mode vs Azure AKS Automatic: The Better Managed Kubernetes Solution?
- Joe Chen walks through Configuring Azure Container App to Pull Images from Different Tenants' Azure Container Registry
- Bilgin Ibryam (@bibryam) talks about Fault tolerant microservices made easy with Dapr resiliency
- Ricardo Martins (@ricmmartins) discusses Choosing the Right Networking Model for Azure Kubernetes Service AKS: Azure CNI vs. Kubenet
- Tomer Spivak explains how to Elevate Your Container Posture: From Agentless Discovery to Risk Prioritization
🗄️ Databases
- Attinder Pal Singh writes about Limited public preview for enhanced log throughput for Azure SQL DB Hyperscale: Up to 150 MiB/s
- Dimitri Furman (@DimitriFurman) announces a limited public preview of the ABORTQUERYEXECUTION query hint
- Kevin Gatimu (@_kevincomba) blogs about Getting Started with Azure Cosmos DB SDK for TypeScript/JavaScript 4.2.0
- Farah Abdou walks through Building a Restaurant Management System with Azure Database for MySQL
- Priyanshi Verma announces Neon Serverless Postgres as an Azure Native Integration Preview
- Andrew Citera shares Managing Terraform State while using Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server Point-in-Time Recovery
🛠️ Developer Tools
- Matt Graven presents Highlights for developers from Microsoft Ignite & .NET Conf
- On the Visual Studio blog, Harshada Hole writes about AI-Powered Insights: Streamlining Variable Analysis with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio and describes How Inline Return Values Simplify Debugging in Visual Studio 2022
- Jullyana Ramos introduces the Copy Git Permalink Feature in Visual Studio 17.12
- Rhea Patel introduces Code Referencing for GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio
- Brian Kemboi explains how to Deploy your ASP.NET Core Web API with the help of GitHub Copilot for Azure in Visual Studio Code.
- Ken Tao writes From Code to Cloud: Deploy Your Java Apps to Azure in Just 2 Steps
- Pamela Fox covers Running Azurite in a Dev Container:
🔩 DevOps
- John Reilly (@johnny_reilly) blogs about Azure Artifacts: Publish a private npm package with Azure DevOps
- Sarah Lean (@TechieLass) covers Terraform with GitHub Actions CI/CD Pipeline
- Richard Fennell (@richardfennell) explains how to Inject a step into Web Deploy
⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud
- Barbara Pei talks about Evolving Stretch Clustering for Azure Local
- Mindy Diep describes how to Upgrade from Azure Stack HCI, version 22H2 to Azure Local
- Swati Devgan discusses Azure Change Tracking & Inventory: Simplified onboarding to manage in-guest changes on Azure Arc VMs
🎭 Identity
- Kristopher Bash describes Action required: Azure AD Graph API retirement
- Ankur Patel explains how to Join the Verified ID webinar series and explains how to Enhance end-user experiences with Custom OTP Email Provider Support
🔌 Integration
- Parth Shah announces General Availability of Resume from Action in Logic Apps
- Wagner Silveira blogs about Logic Apps Aviators Newsletter - December 2024
- Nisha Pillai explains How to manage Managed Identity Connections in Logic App Standard for Local Development
- Dieter Gobeyn walks through Migrating Logic Apps from Consumption to Standard: Real Lessons and Big Wins – part 3
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) delves into Power Automate and KQL integration
📚 Learning
- Rayan Popat writes about Tiny But Mighty: Unleashing the Power of Small Language Models
- Manasa Ramalinga explains how to Transform Insurance Industry Workflows Using Generative AI Models and Azure Services
⚖️ Management and Governance
- Balasubramanian Delli explains how to Update 2409 for Microsoft Configuration Manager current branch is now available.
- Chris Hopkins blogs about Tracking Cloud Policy service and Cloud Update changes in Microsoft Purview Audit
- Mayunk Jain writes Past due! Act now to upgrade from these retired Azure services
- Nikita Bajaj writes 'Azure Automation is revising Service and Subscription Limits'
- Michael Flanakin highlights What's new in FinOps toolkit 0.7 – November 2024
- Michael Flanakin writes about Learning FOCUS: Cost columns
🎬 Media
- Clemens Schotte blogs about Snap to Roads is now available for Azure Maps
- Clemens Schotte writes Discover the Power of HD Isochrones in Azure Maps Route Range API
🌐 Networking
- Jose Moreno (@erjosito) blogs about NSG: any protocol, specific port
🔐 Security
- Charbel Nemnom (@charbelnemnom) walks through an Effective Approach To Collect Linux Logs to Microsoft Sentinel
- Damien Bowden (@damien_bod) describes Using ASP.NET Core with Azure Key Vault
📦 Storage
- Werner Rall writes about Building an Azure Storage Data Integrity Checker with .NET
🔗 Web
- Susan Are delves into Elasticsearch custom container on Azure App Services
⚙️ Azure Virtual Desktop
- Travis Roberts (@Ciraltos) covers FSLogix Performance Best Practices: Optimize AVD User Profiles
- On episode 2024 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast, Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt,) and Ben Stegink (@benstegink) talk to Melissa Grant about Windows 365 Link