Azure Weekly

Issue #535 - 12th October 2025

This week, Github have announced that they will be prioritizing migrating to Azure over feature development, and Microsoft have announced that SAP Business Data Cloud is now available. They've also announced that the GPT-5 model family now powers Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, cross-resource metrics and alerts support for Azure Storage, and a useful post on Choosing the Right Azure Containerisation Strategy: AKS, App Service, or Container Apps

On Fabric, Miles Cole talks about optimized compaction in Fabric Spark, and Amir Jafari highlights that Fabric Data Agent now supports CI/CD, ALM Flow, and Git Integration.

Barry Smart shares his write up and analysis of Big Data LDN 2025 - where AI agents dominated, but the real story wasn't the technology, it was which organisations could actually deploy it successfully. After five years tracking industry evolution through this event, one pattern emerged clearly: the winners had built their foundations first. For CTOs making platform decisions now, the strategic imperative isn't choosing between innovation and governance; it's recognizing that governance enables innovation at scale.

And finally, Carmel's write ups of day 2 and day 3 at FabCon Vienna 2025!