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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:
- Rewrite HTTP headers with Azure Application Gateway
- General availability: Gateway Transit support for Global VNet Peering
- Price reductions for Azure Container Instances are now available
- Manage organization billing in Azure DevOps: Sprint 150 Update
- Multi Geo is now Generally Available for Power BI Embedded
- Refresh Now API provides unlimited data refresh for Power BI Embedded
- TLS 1.2 Recommended for Power BI Embedded applications
- Take action from ‘Button clicked’ in Power BI Embedded
- New Power BI Embedded code samples available in April 2019
- Logic Apps is now available in US Gov Virginia region
- Preview of Azure virtual network service endpoint policies expanded to four new regions
- Update 19.04 for Azure Sphere public preview now available for evaluation
- App Service Migration Assistant for ASP.NET applications is now available
- Classic API Management Analytics will be retired on May 31, 2019
- Home realm discovery during sign-in for Microsoft 365 services
- More sign-in options for Microsoft accounts in Microsoft 365
- Azure Data Box Disk now available in Japan and Korea
- Public Preview: Time zone choice for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance
- AzCopy Preview now supports Amazon Web Services S3 as a data source
- Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio April 2019 Update
- General availability: Azure Kubernetes Service in South Central US, Korea South, and Korea Central
- General Availability: Azure Group Targeting for Azure Update Management
- Azure Policy for AKS is now in private preview
- Cloud-based load testing features will be retired on March 31, 2020
- General availability: Azure Availability Zones in UK South
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
- 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
- Azure Security Center exposes crypto miner campaign via Yaniv Zohar
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
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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!
Thanks for the feedback. I have some automation to help me with categorization and I do miss incorrect sorting at times. 🙂