Azure Weekly

Issue #515 - 18th May 2025

Microsoft Build 2025 runs this week from the 19th - 22nd May. Remember you can Register for free to attend online, and check out How to Watch Microsoft Build 2025 Online and MVPs Recommended Microsoft Build 2025 Session for some recommended sessions to watch.

Other highlights this week include: the start of an interesting series about Getting Started with Semantic Kernel Part 1 and Part 2, and Natural Language to SQL Semantic Kernel Multi-Agent System; "Natural Language to" is a topic I'm particularly interested in, and gave a talk and demo about it this week, showing how to combine structured output, function calling, and MCP. Microsoft Fabric Data Agents have NL2DAX and NL2KQL capabilities - I'm very interested to see how this will space evolve.

Two interesting announcements this week: Native Azure Functions Support in Azure Container Apps, and Launched Generally Available: App Service Webjobs on Linux, and two interesing posts: Azure CycleCloud + Slurm: A Beginners Guide to Job Submission, and Testing IaC Bicep with Microsoft Symphony.

Finally, Carmel Eve is investigating data platform architectures in: What is a Data Lakehouse? and How do Data Lakehouses Work? An Intro to Delta Lake.