Azure Weekly
Issue #79 - 5th June 2016
Kevin Ngo introduces Azure SQL Data Warehouse Premium Storage for greater performance predictability, while Pranav Rastogi has the May update on Azure Redis Cache.
Stephen Baron covers DocumentDB protocol support for MongoDB and estimating your DocumentDB throughput requirements with a new calculator.
Finally Mike Emard announces that StorSimple supports cool Blob storage.
🔎 Analytics
On MSDN, Ray Fleming (@RayFleming) walks talks about learning Data Science through a free online course.
Susan Ibach (@HockeyGeekGirl) looks at getting started with Machine Learning using a Wisconsin Breast Cancer dataset.
On the Azure blog, Kevin Ngo introduces Azure SQL Data Warehouse Premium Storage for greater performance predictability.
Pranav Rastogi has the May update on Azure Redis Cache.
Stephen Baron covers DocumentDB protocol support for MongoDB and estimating your DocumentDB throughput requirements with a new calculator.
On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about bringing your own license to SQL.
🖥️ Compute
On MSDN, Bryan C Smith looks at configuring the Apache Drill Cluster and walks through connecting to the Drill Cluster from a Client App.
On TechNet, J.C. Hornbeck has an important update regarding Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter (MVMC).
Rob Waggoner calculates the variable cost of his Azure workload.
On the Azure Zone blog, Lee Grant provides an introduction to Microsoft Azure Microservices.
From Visual Studio Magazine, Michael Domingo (@domingophoto) writes about a different take on trial software: Azure Test Drives.
Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois) explains how to deploy a Geo-HA Service Fabric Cluster on Azure.
And finally Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) blogs about migrating Azure VMs from ASM to ARM.
🎭 Identity
On the Kloud blog, Lucian Franghiu (@lucianfrango) has an Azure multi-factor authentication MFA cheat sheet.
🔌 Integration
On the Azure blog, Clemens Vasters (@clemensv) announces that Service Bus turns 10!
⚖️ Management and Governance
On TechNet, the Scripting Guys (@ScriptingGuys) explain how to retrieve Azure Resource Manager virtual machine properties by using PowerShell – Part 1 and Part 4.
On Channel 9, Neil Gat makes an ARM template from SCRATCH.
Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas) covers working with Azure ARM templates in Visual Studio Code.
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) talks about building a DevOps assessment tool with VSTS, Azure PaaS and OneShare in minutes.
On MSDN, John Taubensee (@jtaubensee) explains why users with RBAC enabled in the new Azure portal may encounter errors in the classic portal.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) talks about the things that we should consider when the content stored in Azure shouldn't leave a specific country.
Donovan Brown (@DonovanBrown) writes about ASP.NET Core RC2 meeting Docker, building a Linux-Based Visual Studio Team Service Build Machine with Docker support and DevOps for ASP.NET Core RC2.
🌐 Networking
On TechNet, Joe Davies (@JoeDavi70700933) writes about the new ExpressRoute section for the Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects poster.
📦 Storage
On MSDN, Katrien De Graeve (@katriendg) talks about Azure ARM template for Cool Storage, John Savill writes about What is Azure Cool Storage and on the Azure blog, Mike Emard announces that StorSimple supports cool Blob storage
On TechNet, Mvp Dishan Francis (@rebeladm) writes about enabling Azure Backup to protect your data.
🔗 Web
On MSDN, Ben Perkins walks through setting Application Request Routing – ARR Affinity for your Azure App Service.
Over on TechNet, Harry Eagles (@Harry_Eagles) blogs about the fast path to an Azure IoT project.
For TechNet, Jan Hentschel (@Horizon_Net) looks at calling Azure Functions inside Logic Apps.