Another year, another Black Friday, another set of ecommerce outages due to "unprecedented" demand. Hopefully retailers will have an epiphany and embrace the elastic scale of the cloud in 2015.
Special thanks got to @AliceWaddicor for editing some of the content for this issue.
Jobs
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Management & Automation
This section of the newsletter covers all things automation; from Azure Automation, Resource Manager to PowerShell, Docker, Azure Scheduler, Application Insights and Operational Insights.
This section of the newsletter covers Azure Websites, Mobile Services, API Management, Notification Hubs & Event Hubs.
Lee Stott provides links to a video series by Dave Douglas, walking through the steps to build an Azure backend for an Android app
Ryan J. Salva talks about building mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
A repo that's caught our attention this week: Juan J Perez's Event Hub Dash Demo, which provides code to visualize how Azure Event Hubs enables very large scale data ingestion from a large number of sources and very high throughput event consumption through the use of partitioned consumers. This was used in Clemens Vasters TechEd Europe 2014 talk "Telemetry and Data Flow at Hyper-Scale"
More on the event hub theme from the 'Faister' blog - how to send sensor data from Raspberry Pi to Azure Event Hub using Python
Data & Analytics
This section of the newsletter covers SQL Database, HDInsight, Stream Analytics, Data Factory, Machine Learning, DocumentDB, Azure Search & Cache.
⚙️ Jobs
endjin are looking for mid-level & senior developers for our London HQ, to help our customers make the most of Azure and to help endjin develop new IP, products & services. For more information about day to day life at endjin and the types of people we're looking for, see: http://endjin.com/join-us/
If you would like to advertise vacancies in this newsletter, please send an email to AzureWeekly@endjin.com
Lee Stott provides links to a video series by Dave Douglas, walking through the steps to build an Azure backend for an Android app
Ryan J. Salva talks about building mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
A repo that's caught our attention this week: Juan J Perez's Event Hub Dash Demo, which provides code to visualize how Azure Event Hubs enables very large scale data ingestion from a large number of sources and very high throughput event consumption through the use of partitioned consumers. This was used in Clemens Vasters TechEd Europe 2014 talk "Telemetry and Data Flow at Hyper-Scale"
More on the event hub theme from the 'Faister' blog - how to send sensor data from Raspberry Pi to Azure Event Hub using Python
⚙️ Data and Analytics
On Channel 9, Santosh Balasubramanian gives an introduction to Azure Stream Analytics
Judy I Merger links to a case study showing how one early adopter is using Azure Stream Analytics to help asthma patients.
Another case study by Lorence Heikell, describing how Azure machine learning is being used to investigate the energy efficiency of buildings
Oliver Chui announces that HDInsight is now generally available in China, Australia and Japan East
The Machine Learning team blog about web service parameters and hint that Retraining APIs will be released soon.
An old sample, but a good one that demonstrates that underneath all the client SDK abstractions, pushing data into ServiceBus can be done simply with a Http Client.
⚙️ Identity and Access Management
Tom Hollander writes about unattended authentication to Azure Management APIs with Azure Active Directory
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