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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure Backup available in US DoD and new Azure Government regions
- Azure Site Recovery available in US DoD and new Azure Government regions
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- The gap is filled: How Azure Container Instances completes the PaaS hosting spectrum at last by John Adams
- Run Azure Stack in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud by Chris Pietschmann
- Migrating a Web App from ClearDB to Azure Database for MySQL by Jason Anderson
- Raspberry Pi Device Simulator for Azure IoT by Chris Pietschmann
- Build apps faster with Azure Serverless by Raman Sharma
- Programming Arduino with Visual Studio Code by Chris Pietschmann
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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)
- How to Setup NVIDIA Driver on NV-Series Azure VM by Michael Collier
- First Hyperscale CSP with Graphic-Intensive Supportable VMs in UK: Microsoft Azure’s G/GS/LS/H/N-series now available in UK South by Andres Juarez
- Infrastructure Deployment Pipelines: Deploying Infrastructure in Azure with VSTS via Visual Studio Geeks
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- HTTP to HTTPS redirect for WordPress on Azure Web App on Linux by Yi Wang
- ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core Application Restarts on Azure App Service. by Finbar Ryan
- Assign App Service domain to Azure VM or Azure Storage by mksunitha
- July 2017 App Service update by Byron Tardif
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Azure Serverless: Building Apps in the Cloud Even Faster by Sascha Corti
- Build apps faster with Azure Serverless by Raman Sharma
- Getting started with EAI solution in Logic apps by Gautam
Command Line
- How to set Azure PowerShell to a specific Azure Subscription by Benjamin Perkins
Database / Big Data
- SQL Server to Azure SQL Database data movement options and considerations with changing schemas and triggered refreshes by Robin Lester
- Introducing the #Azure #CosmosDB Change Feed Processor Library by Judy Hansen Shen
- Migrating a Web App from ClearDB to Azure Database for MySQL by Jason Anderson
- Teradata Bolsters Analytics and Database capabilities for Azure by Arsenal Vladimirskiy
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Raspberry Pi Device Simulator for Azure IoT by Chris Pietschmann
- Programming Arduino with Visual Studio Code by Chris Pietschmann
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- How do you evaluate the performance of a Neural Network? Focus on AzureML by Jen Stirrup
- Introduction to Microsofts Recommendation API by Armin Reiter
- Multi Column GroupBy Aggregate using R in Azure ML studio by Brijraj Singh
- Training a neural network to play Hangman without a dictionary by Mary Wahl
Development and DevOps
- Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 4 by Pratap Lakshman
- Read Azure Service Health Activity Logs with .NET Core by Carlos Mendible
- Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 16: BotBuilder features – using Luis Entities with FormFlow by Kenichiro Nakamura
- Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 17: BotBuilder features – State Service by Kenichiro Nakamura
- Create Bot for Microsoft Graph with DevOps 18: DirectLine by Kenichiro Nakamura
- Entity Framework Core 2.0 vs. Dapper.Net performance benchmark, querying SQL Azure tables by Aram Koukia
- Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.08.04 by Martin Woodward
Certification / Learning
- Online training for Azure Data Lake by Saveen Reddy
- What Software Developers Need to Know About Training and Certifications by John Sonmez
Containers and Service Fabric
- The gap is filled: How Azure Container Instances completes the PaaS hosting spectrum at last by John Adams
- Crib Sheet: Get Started with Windows Containers and Docker by William Eastbury
- Microservices and Docker containers: Architecture, Patterns and Development guidance by Cesar de la Torre
- Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware & Everything Between – Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service by Lior Kamrat
- Getting up and going with Windows Containers on Microsoft Azure by David Gristwood
Security
- Microsoft Encryption of Data-at-Rest White Paper by Thomas W Shinder
Azure Stack
- Azure Stack WAP Connector – Part 1 by Larry Zhang
- Run Azure Stack in the Microsoft Azure Public Cloud by Chris Pietschmann
Events
- An Interactive Workshop: 12 Things to Consider when Moving to the Azure Cloud by William Eastbury
- Briefing Roadshow: Your Journey to the Microsoft Azure Cloud – A Briefing for Software Solution Businesses by William Eastbury
- Our team go out on the road to talk about Azure by David Gristwood
- SIGGRAPH 2017: Microsoft Azure enables Secure Rendering with services and certs! by Alice Rison
Other
- Microservices Architecture vs Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) by Arm Koukia
- August updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer by Josh Caplan
- Azure Content Spotlight – Enterprise Cloud Strategy by chilberto
- Cloud First – Mapping Strategy to Microsoft Azure Services by drmcghee
- Announcing public preview of Azure Batch Rendering by Dave Fellows
- Announcing General Availability of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers by Shilpi Gautam
- Web security baseline assessment feature now in public preview by The Scripting Guys
- Update Management for Your Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure using Operations Management Suite by martynas
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Azure Container Instances | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Using Kubernetes with Azure Container Instances | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- .NET Core 2.0 – Preview 2 | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
- Building MEAN Apps with Cosmos DB – Part 6: POST, PUT and DELETE with Cosmos DB by John Papa
- BrainDrain: Using Machine Learning and Brain Waves to Detect Errors in Human Problem Solving | PyData Seattle 2017 via Channel 9
- Episode 27: Azure Active Directory Authentication with Vittorio Bertocci | The Xamarin Show by James Montemagno
- Tuesdays with Corey – Azure Container Instances | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Connecting On-premises Hadoop to Azure Data Lake Store | Data Exposed via Channel 9
Audio / Podcasts
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 190 – MSSQL Scripter via The Azure Podcast
- Azure Cosmos DB with Josh Lane via .NET Rocks!
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Three things every IoT manufacturer should do to improve security by Michael Prins
- Introducing 306 Million Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords by Troy Hunt
- Peachpie – Open Source PHP Compiler to .NET and WordPress under ASP.NET Core by Scott Hanselman
- NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit GEMMA M0 – Miniature wearable electronic platform by Daniel Nosonowitz
- NEW GUIDE: I2C Addresses! #AdafruitLearningSystem via Adafruit
- Apache Kafka consumer groups … don’t use them in the “wrong” way ! by ppatierno
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