Azure Weekly

Issue #531 - 14th September 2025

It's the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference 2025 this week in Vienna (Carmel and Jessica from endjin will be there), so expect lots of Fabric related announcements in the next issue! In the meantime there's a new OneLake File Explorer: Smarter, More Reliable, and Seamlessly Integrated.

There are two good posts about Azure Host Groups: Azure Compute Infrastructure: Step-by-Step Guide to Azure Host Groups and Azure Availability Sets vs Host Groups vs Availability Zones: What to Choose and When. There are two Bicep posts of note: Custom Azure Bicep chat modes for GitHub Copilot and Using Shared Variable File Pattern to simplify Azure Roles In Bicep.

Getting n8n up and running locally is just a single command (if you have docker already installed), but here's a guide to Building Agentic Workflows with n8n and Azure Container Apps. There's an interesting post about ATLAS: Your AI Tutoring Agent For Personalised Learning and also Elevating Trust in Data through Data Quality in the AI Era.

Finally, Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here. This week .NET 10 RC was released - endjin's own Matthew Adams had a PR mentioned in Stephen Toub's epic Performance Improvements in .NET 10 (JsonMarshal.GetRawUtf8PropertyName in case you were wondering), and our yearly AIS .NET benchmarks got a mention in The Register's article Microsoft drops .NET 10 RC 'go-live' with 55,000 words on why it's faster.