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The Weeks Top Links

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

Vision Keynote: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge | Microsoft Build 2018 via Channel 9
Save 45% on Developer Reference titles via Microsoft Press
Azure confidential computing by Mark Russinovich
Microsoft Build 2018 Day 2 Keynote Summary: Better developer experiences across devices by Jen Stirrup
Microsoft Build 2018 – Keynote 2 Summary by FitGeekGirl
In case you missed it: 10 of your questions from our GDPR webinars by David Burt
Connect Anything to Everything: Event Grid at Build 2018 by Jeremy Likness
Azure Lab Services Public Preview Released! by Ji Eun Kwon
Private Offers on Azure Marketplace by Ankit Sud
Troubleshoot Network Security Groups (NSGs) In Microsoft Azure With Network Watcher by Timothy Warner
Have fun and draw awesome on the cosmic scale Azure #CosmosDB #PxDraw canvas today! by Christopher Anderson
Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure #CosmosDB is now generally available by Anitha Adusumilli
Shared Image Gallery now in limited public preview by Chetan Agarwal
Download All Build 2018 Sessions offline by Wriju Ghosh
Sharing provisioned throughput across multiple containers in Azure #CosmosDB by Ramnandan Krishnamurthy
Simplifying blockchain app development with Azure Blockchain Workbench by Matthew Kerner
Microsoft opens its ‘BrainWave’ AI-on-FPGA service to external testers via ZDNet
Announcing Microsoft’s own Content Delivery Network by Manling Zhang

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)

Azure Networking May 2018 announcements by Yousef Khalidi
Azure Log Analytics: Queries, Are you looking for a pattern? RexEx by CliveW
Customer success stories with Azure Backup: Somerset County Council by Anurag Mehrotra
Shared Image Gallery now in limited public preview by Chetan Agarwal
Setting up Azure Classroom Labs for your students with Azure Lab Services by Lee Stott
Azure Lab Services Public Preview Released! by Ji Eun Kwon
OpenShift on Azure: The easiest, fully managed OpenShift in the cloud by Brendan Burns
Troubleshoot Network Security Groups (NSGs) In Microsoft Azure With Network Watcher by Timothy Warner
Announcing Microsoft’s own Content Delivery Network by Manling Zhang

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

PHP Minor Version Update for June 2018 by Jennifer Lee
Running Django on Azure Web Apps for Containers with Docker by Drew Lewis
Monitoring Python Applications with Azure App Insights by Najib Z
Enhancements in Application Insights Profiler and Snapshot Debugger by Catherine Wang
FHIR Server with Azure API Management by Michael S. Hansen
Receiving CORS Redirection Error when Signing into App Service using Azure AD by Frank Hu
Web Apps making changes to FTP deployments by Thad Kittelson
Announcing the Linux on App Service Environment Public Preview by Jennifer Lee
New SSH Experience and Remote Debugging for Linux Web Apps by Yi Liao
Multi-container Linux Web App by Yi Liao

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Validate and troubleshoot Azure Logic App WebHook trigger pattern for API connector by David Burg
Break through the serverless barriers with Azure Functions by Eduardo Laureano
Azure Functions – Extension resolution and loading. by Boris Wilhelms
Automating Process Dump for Azure Functions using Kudu and Alerts by Joseph Fultz
Using Deployment slots for Azure Function by Abhijit Jana
Create Azure Functions using Visual Studio and deploy it to Azure by Abhijit Jana

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Dynamics 365 Monthly Update-April 2018 by Ryan A. Anderson

Command-Line / ARM Templates

Deploying Linked ARM Templates with VSTS by Najib Zarrari
API Management CI/CD using ARM Templates – API Management Instance by Eldert Grootenboer
Azure Template DSC Never Starts by Aidan Finn
Introducing the Azure Terraform Resource Provider by Simon Davies
Download All Build 2018 Sessions offline by Wriju Ghosh
Uploading files to cloud drive using Azure Cloud Shell by Abhijit Jana

Database / Big Data

Have fun and draw awesome on the cosmic scale Azure #CosmosDB #PxDraw canvas today! by Christopher Anderson
Azure Event Hubs Deprecating Entity Metrics REST API by Justin Conway
Azure Cosmos DB Pricing Compared to DynamoDB and NeptuneDB by Thomas LaRock
Virtual Network Service Endpoints for Azure #CosmosDB is now generally available by Anitha Adusumilli
Working with CloudEvents in Azure Event Grid by Eldert Grootenboer
Azure Service Bus Deprecating Entity Metrics REST API by Justin Conway
Spark + AI Summit: Data scientists and engineers put their trust in Microsoft Azure Databricks by Deepsha Menghani
Extract management insights from SQL Data Warehouse with SQL Operations Studio by Kevin Ngo
Azure SQL Data Warehouse now supports automatic creation of statistics by Igor Stanko
Connect Anything to Everything: Event Grid at Build 2018 by Jeremy Likness
NoSQL and Azure Cosmos DB in 20 Minutes by Jeremy Likness
Azure Event Hubs for Kafka Ecosystems in public preview by Shubha Vijayasarathy
What is Azure HDInsight? by Ashish Thapliyal
4 new features now available in Azure Stream Analytics by Krishna Mamidipaka
Lesson Learned #46: Showing hidden Azure SQL Database types in the Portal by Jose M Jurado
Better integrations and higher productivity with Azure Event Grid by Bahram Banisadr
Deploying an Azure Data Science VM from the command line by sendmarsh
Sharing provisioned throughput across multiple containers in Azure #CosmosDB by Ramnandan Krishnamurthy

Internet of Things (IoT)

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 122 – Creating an IoT Hub for the IoT Button by Michael Crump
What’s new with Azure IoT Edge? by Arjmand Samuel
Unlocking the IoT promise—from the intelligent cloud to the intelligent edge by Sam George

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Full-integrated experience simplifying Language Understanding in conversational AI systems by Nayer Wanas
Create a QnA Maker Azure Service and Connect with Knowledge Base (KB) Service by Abhijit Jana
Build 2018: What’s new in Azure video processing and video AI by John Deutscher
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning News from Build 2018 by jennmar
Microsoft empowers developers with new and updated Cognitive Services by Andy Hickl
Introducing ML.NET: Cross-platform, Proven and Open Source Machine Learning Framework by Ankit Asthana

Development and DevOps

New Azure innovations are helping developers write code today for tomorrow’s technology challenges by Scott Guthrie
DevOps with VSTS: Build 2018 Recap by Dan Hellem
Microsoft Build 2018 Day 2 Keynote Summary: Better developer experiences across devices by Jen Stirrup
Please Help Make the Science of DevOps Even Better! by Sam Guckenheimer
Does the Azure DevOps projects are worth it? by Frank Boucher
Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 Go Live AND .NET Core 3.0 Futures by Scott Hanselman
Announcing new Async Java SDK for Azure #CosmosDB by Kirill Gavrylyuk
Part 2 – Deploying Your Dockerized Angular Application to Azure Using VSTS by Wael Kdouh
Hyper-V Android emulator support via Visual Studio Blog
New Integrations for GitHub Developers by Nat Friedman
Azure DevOps Project: New feature additions by atulm

Containers / Service Fabric

More reliable Replica Sets in AKS – Part 1 by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Monitoring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure Monitor container health (preview) by Keiko Harada
Azure Service Fabric at Microsoft Build 2018 by Chacko Daniel
Kubernetes on Azure: Industry’s best end-to-end Kubernetes experience by Gabe Monroy

Blockchain / Smart Contracts

Simplifying blockchain app development with Azure Blockchain Workbench by Matthew Kerner

Security / Privacy

In case you missed it: 10 of your questions from our GDPR webinars by David Burt
Lesson Learned #49: Does Azure SQL Database support Azure Active Directory connections using Service Principals? by Jose M Jurado
Azure confidential computing by Mark Russinovich

Learning / Certification

Exam Prep for 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions by Omer Amin
Save 45% on Developer Reference titles via Microsoft Press

Azure Government

Loading Synthea FHIR Data with Logic Apps and Functions in Azure Government by Michael S. Hansen

Events

Microsoft Build Day 1 Keynote notes by David Giard
Microsoft Build 2018 – Keynote 2 Summary by FitGeekGirl
Join us May 23: Harnessing cloud – How to accelerate your mission apps by Karina Homme
Service Fabric Community Q&A 24th Edition via Service Fabric Team

Other

Access Azure resources quickly that are used recently by Abhijit Jana
Do more with Microsoft Azure by CliveW
Azure Portal Tip: Check deployments of Azure resources from the Resource Group by Abhijit Jana
Azure Portal Tip: Quickly create Azure services from the Saved List by Abhijit Jana
The case for collaboration: 3 ways you can break down your business’s silos via Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Bing Maps Location Recognition API and Autosuggest API Previews Released via Bing Team
Private Offers on Azure Marketplace by Ankit Sud
Moving businesses forward with Microsoft Business Applications in Australia via Cloud Perspectives Blog
Azure mobile app is now generally available by Ilse Terrazas Ortega
Microsoft opens its ‘BrainWave’ AI-on-FPGA service to external testers via ZDNet

Videos

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

Vision Keynote: Intelligent Cloud and Intelligent Edge | Microsoft Build 2018 via Channel 9
Windows Weekly 569: Build via Paul Thurrott
Designing with Azure Maps | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Azure Blob Storage for Mobile with Brandon Minnick | The Xamarin Show via Channel 9
Interactive ad-hoc analysis at petabyte scale with HDInsight Interactive Query by Ashish Thapliyal
Vision Cognitive Services Updates | AI Show via Channel 9
What’s New with Language Understanding Service (LUIS) | AI Show via Channel 9
What’s New for Search in Azure Maps via Azure Friday
Time Zones in Azure Maps via Azure Friday
Traffic in Azure Maps via Azure Friday
Designing with Azure Maps via Azure Friday
Routing with Azure Maps via Azure Friday
Search in Azure Maps via Azure Friday
Visualizing Data with Azure Maps Web Map Control via Azure Friday
Bing Visual Search | AI Show via Channel 9
Easy Site Search Solutions with Bing Custom Search | AI Show via Channel 9
Meet the New Bot Framework Emulator | AI Show via Channel 9
Project Personality Chat for Bot Developers | AI Show via Channel 9
LearnAI-Bootcamp for Emerging AI Developers: Integrating Services with BotBuilder SDK v4 [Part 2/2] | AI Show via Channel 9
At Build 2018: Azure IoT Edge via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: Azure Sphere via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: VSTS – Agile via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: VSTS – CI/CD via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: Azure Blockchain via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: Big Data and Analytics via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: Azure Service Fabric via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: Visual Studio Live Share via Azure Friday
At Build 2018: Azure IoT Central via Azure Friday
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 121 – Video of our talk at Build 2018 by Michael Crump

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 62 – Catching Up On Azure, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 250 | Microsoft Build 2018 News via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 251 | Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Dev Spaces Live from Build via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 252 | SharePoint Development with Vesa Juvonen Live from Build via Microsoft Cloud Show
How do you become a CTO – with Microsoft’s CTO Kevin Scott via Hanselminutes
Episode 228 – Live from Build with Donovan Brown and Damian Brady via The Azure Podcast

General Cloud / Related

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

Freedom from Lock-in With Docker Enterprise Edition by David Messina
Smart Farming Solutions – How IoT transforms Agriculture Sector by Mitesh Patel
Tearing Apart Google’s TPU 3.0 AI Coprocessor by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Microsoft and Google I/O -> War for AI/ML Dominance by cjibo
Integrating Kubernetes with Docker Enterprise Edition 2.0 – Top 10 Questions from the Docker Virtual Event by Jenny Fong
AI Frameworks And Hardware: Who Is Using What? by Timothy Prickett Morgan
Blending An Elixir Of Quantum And AI For Better Healthcare by James Cuff
Microsoft HoloLens: Collaborate with Microsoft Remote Assist to solve problems faster by Microsoft HoloLens
Mixed Reality at Microsoft: Partner Spotlight with thyssenkrupp Aerospace by Microsoft HoloLens
Microsoft HoloLens: Design spaces in real-world context with Microsoft Layout by Microsoft HoloLens

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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.