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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:

Azure Container Service: the cloud’s most open option for containers by Corey Sanders
Data Manipulation at Scale with Microsoft R Server & Spark on Azure HDInsight via Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog
OMS Data Collector API and Twitter Sentiment Demo (Part 2) by Rafaela Brownlie
Oracle Workloads on Azure by shupadh
What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services – November 2016 Digest by Buck Hodges
Power BI Desktop – Installing 32-bit vs. 64-bit Power BI Desktop Application by Samuel Lester
Working with Azure functions (part 1 – Powershell) by Armin Reiter

Videos

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

Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Event Hubs Archive goodness | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
IoT Show Stranger Things | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Evolving ASOS to Azure Microservices | UK TechDays Online @ Future Decoded via Channel 9
PowerApps introductory videos by Karthik Bharathy

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 164 | Twitter, Apple and Microsoft on PowerApps, Flow and Microsoft Teams via Microsoft Cloud Show

Events

There are cloud and/or Azure related events every so often. Here are links to some events that readers of Build Azure Weekly may be interested in:

Reminder: IoT Builders Contest from Instructables #IoT @Instructables via Adafruit

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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.