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The Weeks Top Links

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

Microsoft to stop supporting its Azure Container Service in January 2020 via ZDNet
Kusto Query Language with Azure Notebooks and Azure Data Explorer by Lee Stott
An Azure Function orchestrates a real-time, serverless, big data pipeline by Kate Baroni
Power BI and Azure Data Services dismantle data silos and unlock insights by John Macintyre
How to Build Microsoft Graph Engine on Red Hat Linux by bill
Tackling the conservation crisis with the right data via Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Native Python support on Azure App Service on Linux: new public preview! by Dan Taylor
Cross-database Query in Azure SQL Database by Fernando Cobo Enriquez

Azure 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 Build Microsoft Graph Engine on Red Hat Linux by bill
NEW REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE: Deploy highly available network virtual appliances – PIP-UDR NVAs without SNAT by Ed Price
Azure Monitor for containers now generally available by Keiko Harada
Understanding health criteria in Azure Monitor for VMs by Shikher Saluja
Mainframe Migration to Azure – Portal by Ed Price

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Static websites on Azure Storage now generally available by Sercan Guler
Native Python support on Azure App Service on Linux: new public preview! by Dan Taylor

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Building a Simple Contact Form with Azure Functions by Isaac Levin
Using Azure DevOps REST API to start multiple releases with Azure Logic Apps by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Inserting lots of rows into SQL with a Logic App and a Stored Procedure by michaelstephensonuk
An Azure Function orchestrates a real-time, serverless, big data pipeline by Kate Baroni
Create a Function App in Visual Studio by David Giard

Database / Big Data

Azure Notebooks new UI And Project Features–Get your academic course content showcased. by Lee Stott
Azure HDInsight integration with Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview – ACL and security update by Ashish Thapliyal
Microsoft Azure Notebooks and Additional Compute Capacity via connecting to Data Science VMs by Lee Stott
Kusto Query Language with Azure Notebooks and Azure Data Explorer by Lee Stott
Power BI and Azure Data Services dismantle data silos and unlock insights by John Macintyre
Deploying Apache Airflow in Azure to build and run data pipelines by Parikshit Savjani
Automatic performance monitoring in Azure SQL Data Warehouse (preview) by Matt Usher
Packt’s Guide to NoSQL with Azure Cosmos DB…free by esseemme
Azure SQL DB with more than 4 readable secondaries by FonsecaSergio
How to Scale up Azure Database for MySQL from Basic Tier to General Purpose Tier by Bashar Hussein
Cross-database Query in Azure SQL Database by Fernando Cobo Enriquez

Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT in Action: Experts Weigh in on Current & Future IoT Trends by Justin Slade
Extracting insights from IoT data using the cold path data flow by Ercenk Keresteci
Meet the Microsoft Azure IoT on Serverless Hackathon winners via Microsoft Azure Blog
Get Started with Cognitive Service Container in IoT Edge by Wu Shuai

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 174 – Machine Learning with ML.NET and Azure Functions – Part 1 of 2 by Michael Crump

Development and DevOps

New Azure DevOps Work Item Experience in Visual Studio 2019 via Visual Studio Blog
Older versions of Visual Studio 2017 will not install in Windows Server 2019 containers by Heath Stewart
Deck the Halls with an Improved Visual Studio App Center Portal UI by Bo-ying Fu
A Year of Q# by Mariia Mykhailova

Containers / Service Fabric

Microsoft to stop supporting its Azure Container Service in January 2020 via ZDNet
KubeCon North America 2018: Serverless Kubernetes and community led innovation! by Brendan Burns
A hybrid approach to Kubernetes by Ricardo Mendes
Announcing New REST based Service Fabric PowerShell Module via Service Fabric Team
Build and deploy microservices on Azure Service Fabric Mesh by Jason Haley

Learning / Certification

Complete your MVA courses before they retire on January 31, 2019 by BJ O’Hare

Azure Government

Fall roundup of recent Azure Government announcements by Lily Kim

Other

Free Azure Subscription–no credit card needed by Wriju Ghosh
Tackling the conservation crisis with the right data via Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team

Videos

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

Decentralized Identity and Blockchain | Block Talk via Channel 9
Python on Azure: Part 1—Building Django apps with Visual Studio Code via Azure Friday
Python on Azure: Part 2—Deploying Django services to Azure Web Apps via Azure Friday
Python on Azure: Part 3—CI/CD with Azure Pipelines via Azure Friday
Python on Azure: Part 4—Running serverless Django apps with Functions via Azure Friday
Machine Learning on Code | The Open Source Show via Channel 9
Azure IoT TypeEdge : a strongly-typed development experience for Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show 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 258 – Live from KubeCon 2018 via The Azure Podcast
Episode 103 – Enterprise Mobility with Simon Binder via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 282 | Microsoft Connect(), Microsoft Flow Licensing Changes & Microsoft Ditches Edge via Microsoft Cloud Show
IoT and Edge Computing with Jared Rhodes via .NET Rocks!
Interview about Azure and Microsoft on Technado ITPro.TV by Thomas Maurer
Episode 99 – Office 365 PowerShell with Vlad Catrinescu via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 280 | Recent Cloud Outages and Office 365 News via Microsoft Cloud Show
Containers in Windows Server 2019 with Elton Stoneman via .NET Rocks!
Dynamics 365 Practice Podcast – Episode 43 – ISV Opportunities with Josh Burgess via The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
Episode 98 – Catching Up On Office 365 News via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Clean up after yourself Docker, your mom isn’t here! by FreddyDK
Working With Signed JWTs (OAuth With certificates) by Andreas Helland
Talking Databases With Hadoop Creator Doug Cutting by Timothy Prickett Morgan
How IoT is Impacting the Brick-and-Mortar Retail Experience by Alex Brown
GitHub: top programming languages of 2018 #Programming #Python @GitHub by Mike Barela
NEW PRODUCT – Raspberry Pi Model 3 A+ by Angelica

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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.