Azure Weekly

Issue #521 - 29th June 2025

There's lots of great Fabric content this week: Data engineers will be interested in the new Inline Scalar user-defined functions (UDFs) in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse (Preview). Developers can explore new capabilities with the features for Microsoft Fabric Extension in VS Code. The Fabric Data Agent has received an upgrade with Data source instructions for smarter, more accurate AI responses, and there's a comprehensive Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary which covers all the latest additions.

On the infrastructure side, there's practical guidance for Deploying an MCP Server Using Azure Container Apps. Here Microsoft is recognised for innovation, scale, and real-world impact with Serverless Compute on Azure. As you may know, we here at endjin are passionate about the ability of serverless compute to give small, medium and enterprise organisations a low resistance path to adoption!

For those working with data integration, James has provides an excellent walkthrough of reading structured data from SharePoint in Synapse Pipelines. Finally, Microsoft's commitment to security architecture is highlighted in Microsoft's journey towards durability at scale with Mark Russinovich.

🚢 Containers

⚙️ Hybrid + Multicloud

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