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The Weeks Top Links

Here are some of the most notable links from the week:

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 193 – Build your first app with the Azure SDK for Go on Azure via Michael Crump
Azure Icon Downloader Chrome Extension via Chris Pietschmann
How to accelerate DevOps with Machine Learning lifecycle management via Eduardo Melo
Performance Testing is Coming to Microsoft Exams: Here Is What You Should Know via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
Using Ethereum Logic Apps to monitor SQL server databases via Microsoft Developer
Blockchain Supercharged with AI: The Next Revolution via Gregory S Mathew
Global Online Azure Bootcamp via Aidan Finn

Azure Service Updates

Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:

Blog Articles

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Do Not Enable Azure Storage Account Firewall – IaaS via AFinn
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 1 via Parul Matah
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 3 via Parul Matah
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2 via Parul Matah
Azure Stack IaaS – part seven via David Armour

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

.NET application migration using Azure App Services and Azure Container Services via Matthew Calder
Do Not Enable Azure Storage Account Firewall – IaaS via AFinn
Introducing the App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications via Calvin Keaton

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Using Ethereum Logic Apps to publish ledger data to Azure Search via Microsoft Developer
Microsoft Integration Weekly Update: April 15, 2019 via Gautam
Using Ethereum Logic Apps to monitor SQL server databases via Microsoft Developer

Software as a Service (SaaS)

4 Mind-Altering Ways To Become A Confident SaaS Founder Even If You’re Full of Self Doubt via Dan Martell

Database and Big Data

Using Ethereum Logic Apps to publish ledger data to Azure Search via Microsoft Developer
Announcing general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight via Arindam Chatterjee
The Azure Instance Metadata Service for fun and profit via Guy Bowerman
Using Ethereum Logic Apps to monitor SQL server databases via Microsoft Developer
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 1 via Parul Matah
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 3 via Parul Matah
Smarter, faster, safer: Azure SQL Data Warehouse is simply unmatched via Kapil Gupta
How Skype modernized its backend infrastructure using Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2 via Parul Matah

Internet of Things (IoT)

Lwin Maung on IoT Hardware Options via David Giard
Expanding Azure IoT certification service to support Azure IoT Edge devices via Koichi Hirao

Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Real-Time ML based Anomaly Detection in Azure Stream Analytics via Microsoft Developer
Blockchain Supercharged with AI: The Next Revolution via Gregory S Mathew
How do teams work together on an automated machine learning project? via Francesca Lazzeri
How to accelerate DevOps with Machine Learning lifecycle management via Eduardo Melo
Bitnami Apache Airflow Multi-Tier now available in Azure Marketplace via Parikshit Savjani
Leveraging AI and digital twins to transform manufacturing with Sight Machine via Diego Tamburini
Azure AI does that? via Sep DiMeglio

DevOps and Development

Changes to Coded UI Test in Visual Studio 2019 via Prachi Bora (MSFT)
Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2019.04.12 via Edward Thomson
What’s new in Azure DevOps Sprint 149? via Anisha Pindoria
Azure DevOps (VSTS) – The current operating system is not capable of running this task, with “Azure File Copy” via Tobias Zimmergren
How to accelerate DevOps with Machine Learning lifecycle management via Eduardo Melo
April Security Release: Patches available for Azure DevOps Server 2019, TFS 2018.3.2, TFS 2018.1.2, TFS 2017.3.1, and the release of TFS 2015.4.2 via Erin Dormier
Leveraging AI and digital twins to transform manufacturing with Sight Machine via Diego Tamburini

Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and Service Fabric

.NET Core Workers in Azure Container Instances via Brady Gaster
Service Fabric with Humio Monitoring via Service Fabric Team
Azure Service Fabric 6.4 Refresh Release via Service Fabric Team

Blockchain and Smart Contracts

Using Ethereum Logic Apps to publish ledger data to Azure Search via Microsoft Developer
Blockchain Supercharged with AI: The Next Revolution via Gregory S Mathew
Using Ethereum Logic Apps to monitor SQL server databases via Microsoft Developer

Security, Identity, and Privacy

Azure Stack

Azure Stack IaaS – part seven via David Armour

Learning and Certification

Performance Testing is Coming to Microsoft Exams: Here Is What You Should Know via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
Why Microsoft Beta Exams Are No Longer Free via Liberty Munson (Microsoft)
Global Online Azure Bootcamp via Aidan Finn

Other

Your computer is not a black box – Understanding Processes and Ports on Windows by exploring via Scott Hanselman
QnA Maker updates – April 2019 via Prakul Bansal
Deploying Grafana for production deployments on Azure via Parikshit Savjani
Psst! Bing Maps has new APIs and features to share at Microsoft Build 2019 via Bing Team
Global ONLINE Azure Bootcamp via AFinn
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 193 – Build your first app with the Azure SDK for Go on Azure via Michael Crump
How can HoloLens 2 applications be better with Azure Services? | One Dev Question via Microsoft Developer
Azure Icon Downloader Chrome Extension via Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft, Amazon are the last bidders standing for the $10 billion DoD JEDI cloud contract via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
Microsoft at SAP Sapphire NOW 2019: A trusted path to cloud innovation via Juergen Thomas
How to stay on top of Azure best practices via Kaitlyn Corazao
MVPDays Microsoft Flow Conference 2018 | How we use Microsoft Flow and PowerApps: Real cases scenarios | Video and slides are available via Sandro Pereira
App Center and React Native Upgrades via James
How to stay informed about Azure service issues via Stephen Baron
Want to evaluate your cloud analytics provider? Here are the three questions to ask. via Julia White
Azure.Source – Volume 77 via Rob Caron
Hybrid storage performance comes to Azure via Jeff Tabor
Global Azure Bootcamp, Praha, Brno, 27.4.2019 via Jiri Burian
Countdown for Microsoft Build: Things To Do (Part 1) via Microsoft Developer

Videos

Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:

Azure Monitor action groups via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
Azure Monitor action groups | Azure Friday via Microsoft Developer (uploads) on YouTube
Azure Monitor action groups | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Microservices Day 2: You Have a Service Mesh, Now What? | The Open Source Show via Channel 9
What can I build today with Azure Mixed Reality Services? | One Dev Question via Channel 9
Using the new Basic Process in Azure DevOps | The DevOps Lab via Channel 9
Redis Edge On Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9

Podcast

To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:

Episode 274 – Reliability Engineering via The Azure Podcast
Episode 120 – All Of The Portals via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 298 | Weee’rrreee baaack! Azure Updates and More via Microsoft Cloud Show

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Chris Pietschmann
Microsoft MVP – Azure
Founder, BuildAzure.com

About the Author

Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 20+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.

2 Comments

Guy Bowerman on April 16, 2019 at 11:21 am

Hi, please can you recategorize “The Azure Instance Metadata Service for fun and profit” blog post from “Database and big data” to “Infrastructure as a Service”. Thanks!
- Chris Pietschmann on April 24, 2019 at 9:18 am
  
  Thanks for the feedback. I have some automation to help me with categorization and I do miss incorrect sorting at times. 🙂