Azure Weekly - ☁️ Azure Weekly #457 - 10th March 2024

Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #457

powered by endjin

Welcome to issue 457 of the Azure Weekly Newsletter! In order to tackle the increasing volumes of spam and phishing emails, various email providers are increasing their requirements for DMARC, as we produce both Azure Weekly and Power BI Weekly, we had to ensure we made those changes before the February deadline. It wasn't a painful process, but it did take a bit of research and testing. There are four really good posts on this subject in case you still need to make these changes for your own organisations: Microsoft Defender for Office 365-Configure SPF email authentication for Microsoft 365 domains Configure DKIM email authentication for Microsoft 365 Custom domains, Configure DMARC email authentication for Microsoft 365 Custom Domains, and finally Configure trusted ARC sealers email authentication for Microsoft 365 Custom domains.

In Analytics, Jonathan George provides an Introduction to Python Logging in Synapse Notebooks, and following on from last week' post: Reading Data from Event Hubs into Eventstream and a Lakehouse Table - Part 2. Coupling Data Flows: Data Pipelines and Orchestration - Data Engineering Process Fundamentals and Mastering Azure SQL Encryption for Better Data Protection, and Load Test Emulation for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server using mysqlslap.

Two posts around AI: Store and query embeddings in Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL with pgvector, and a useful guide to Optimizing Azure OpenAI: A Guide to Limits, Quotas, and Best Practices.

In DevOps and Cloud Native App Dev: Managing your Azure Resources with Deployment Stacks, Azure Storage Actions vs. Lifecycle Management, the Azure Container Apps Newsletter – March 2024 (which has a bit of a focus on Java), and Azure Verified Modules - Monthly Update February.

Around Management, Governance and security, there are two interesting posts: Designing Network Security To Combat Modern Threats and the Public Preview of Change Actor.

Finally, James Broome has written a great set of thoughts, reflecting on spending the last few years building no code/low code solutions solutions, with his Director of Engineering hat on:No-code/Low-code is software DIY - how do you avoid DIY disaster?. If you don't want to read, there's a good audio version available too.

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AI + Machine Learning

Covering: Anomaly detector, Azure Bot Service, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Open Datasets, Bing APIs, Cognitive Services, Computer Vision, Content moderator, Custom vision, Data Science Virtual Machines, Face, Form Recogniser, Immersive Reader, Ink Recogniser, Language Understanding (LUIS), Machine Learning Studio, Microsoft Genomics, ML.NET, Personaliser, Project Cortex, QnA Maker, Speaker Recognition, Speech-to-Text, Speech translation, Text Analytics, Text to Speech , Translator Speech, Translator Text

Analytics

Covering: Apache Spark for HDInsight, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Databricks, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, Event Hubs, HDInsight, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric

Compute

Covering: Azure CycleCloud, Azure Dedicated Host, Azure Functions, Azure VMware Solution by CloudSimple, Batch, Cloud Services, Linux Virtual Machines, SAP HANA on Azure Large Instances, Service Fabric, Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets

Containers

Covering: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Red Hat OpenShift, CNAB, CNCF, Container Instances, Container Registry, Porter, WSL, Web App for Containers

Databases

Covering: Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Database for MariaDB, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Database Edge, Azure Cache for Redis, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server on virtual machines, SQL Server Stretch Database, Table storage

Developer Tools

Covering: App Configuration, Azure Lab Services, CLIs, Developer tool integrations, SDKs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio Online

DevOps

Covering: Azure Artifacts, Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, Azure Test Plans, Azure DevTest Labs, DevOps tool integrations

Hybrid + Multicloud

Covering: Azure Arc, Azure Stack

Identity

Covering: Azure Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services

Integration

Covering: Azure API for FHIR, Event Grid, Logic Apps, Service Bus

Internet of Things

Covering: Azure Digital Twins, Azure IoT Central, Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure IoT solution accelerators, Azure Maps, Azure Sphere, Azure Time Series Insights, IoT DevKit, WildernessLabs, Windows 10 IoT Core Services

Learning

Covering: Microsoft Certifications, Azure Certifications, Microsoft Learning Paths, Certification Pathway Information

Management and Governance

Covering: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Backup, Azure Blueprints, Azure Lighthouse, Azure Managed Applications, Azure mobile app, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell, Cost Management, Microsoft Azure portal, Scheduler, Azure Purview

Media

Covering: Azure Media Player, Content Protection, Encoding, Live and On-Demand Streaming, Media Analytics, Media Services, Video Indexer

Migration

Covering: Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Migrate, Data Box

  • No content this week

Networking

Covering: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Front Door, Azure Internet Analyzer, Azure Private Link, Content Delivery Network, Load Balancer, Network Watcher, Traffic Manager, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, VPN Gateway, Web Application Firewall

Security

Covering: Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Information Protection, Azure Sentinel, Key Vault, Security Center

Storage

Covering: Archive Storage, Avere vFXT for Azure, Azure Data Lake Store, Azure FXT Edge Filer, Azure HPC Cache, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, File Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, StorSimple

Web

Covering: API apps, API Management, App Service (Web), Azure Cognitive Search, Azure SignalR Service, Azure Spring Cloud, Web apps

Azure Virtual Desktop

Covering: Azure Virtual Desktop

Thought Leadership from endjin

Useful Links

  • Azure Resource Inventory - Azure Resource Inventory - It's a Powerful tool to create EXCEL inventory from Azure Resources with low effort
  • Azure Quick Review (azqr) - A command-line interface (CLI) tool specifically designed to analyze Azure resources and identify whether they comply with Azure's best practices and recommendations.
  • AzSaveMoney - Clean-up and save money by identifying and marking unused Azure resources/groups as subject for deletion by tagging.
  • Azure Cost CLI - CLI tool to perform cost analysis on your Azure subscription
  • Azure Code Samples - Explore Microsoft's samples and discover the things you can build.
  • Azure Resource Inventory - Azure Resource Inventory is a powerful script written in PowerShell to generate an Excel report of any Azure Environment you have read access
  • Azure Quickstart Templates - Learn how to deploy to Azure using ARM Templates. Over 850 examples in this repo.
  • Azure CNAB Quickstarts Library - You can deploy to the Cloud, on Prem and on the Edge using CNAB & Porter. This library provides a number of quickstart templates to help you get started, fast!
  • Power BI Weekly - Interested in Power BI? Sign up to our sister newsletter Power BI Weekly to receive all the week's Power BI news.
  • Azure Resources - A fantastic collection of resources contained in this repo. Issue a PR if you have resources to share. Managed by Azure MVP Gregor Suttie.
  • Azure Charts - Azure Charts is a set of auto-rebuilt charts to keep you updated on Azure changes, news, stats. Public updates, RSS channels and web pages are used as data sources
  • The Developer’s Guide to Microsoft Azure (2nd Edition) - ebook from Microsoft showcasing architectural approaches and common design patterns you face when building modern applications.
  • Cyber Security Demystified - ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
  • Azure Resource Center - Whitepapers, code samples, solution architectures
  • Azure Architecture Center - guidance from the Patterns & Practices team covering API Design, API implementation, Autoscaling, Background jobs, CDN, Caching, Data partitioning, Monitoring and diagnostics, Retry, Scalability and availability.
  • Design scalable and performant tables - a guide from the storage team.
  • Azure Speed Test 2.0 - a simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters to suggest which might be fastest for you location.
  • Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set - a set of Visio and PowerPoint shapes for use in architecture diagrams / presentations.
  • Service Bus Explorer - a free and open source tool for managing and exploring Azure Service Bus(including Event Hubs).
  • Microsoft cloud for IT architects illustrations - These cloud architecture posters give you information about Microsoft cloud services, including Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and hybrid on-premises and cloud solutions.
  • Whitepapers for Power BI - numerous whitepapers ranging various Power BI topics
  • Farmer - This is a DSL for ARM template creation - "Making repeatable Azure deployments easy"!

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