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Service Updates

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

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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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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.