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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft Connect() 2017 Highlights and Announcements – Bring AI Everywhere by Chris Pietschmann
- 70-537 Microsoft Azure Stack Certification Exam is Coming Soon by Chris Pietschmann
- Introducing Azure DevOps Project by atulm
- Cloud-hosted Mac agents for CI/CD pipelines by David Staheli
- Azure Architecture Exam 70-534 is Retired and Replaced with 70-535 Exam by Chris Pietschmann
- Announcing General Availability of Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs) by Takeshi Numoto
- Announcing the general availability of Azure #CosmosDB Table API by Denny Lee
- Pre-announcing the general availability of Azure #CosmosDB Gremlin (Graph) API by Luis Bosquez
- Using Azure and AI to Explore the JFK Files by Corom Thompson
- Exciting AI Platform & Tools Announcements from Microsoft by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Microsoft Is Bringing Real-Time Collaboration to Visual Studio by Mehedi Hassan
- Introducing Visual Studio Live Share | Connect(); 2017 via Channel 9
- Announcing general availability of Bash in Cloud Shell by Justin Luk
- Expanding AI tools and resources for developers and data scientists on Azure by Joseph Sirosh
- The Azure Functions on Linux Preview by Daria Grigoriu
- Azure Functions on IoT Edge by Colby Tresness
- Azure Functions Proxies is now Generally Available by Alex Karcher
- Azure Stream Analytics now available on IoT Edge by Jean-Sqbastien Brunner
- Announcing Visual Studio and Kubernetes – Visual Studio Connected Environment by Scott Hanselman
- Dear Cassandra Developers, welcome to Azure #CosmosDB! by Rimma Nehme
- MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure by Tobias Ternstrom
- A technical overview of Azure Databricks by Peter Carlin
- Microsoft’s Black Friday Deals Include $100 off Windows Mixed Reality Headsets by Peter Graham
- Azure Virtual Datacenter by Mark Ozur
Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Retiring Virtual Machines and Azure Cloud Services from the classic portal
- Azure Advisor: New dashboard, downloadable reports, and configuration
- Static resource classes are now supported in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
- Name changes: Visual Studio Mobile Center
- Name changes: Azure Batch Rendering V-Ray
- Name changes: Automation DSC
- General availability: Azure Reserved VM Instances
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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 Virtual Datacenter – New E-Book from AzureCAT by Ed Price
- Azure Networking updates for Fall 2017 by Yousef Khalidi
- FAQs: A Closer Look at the Requirements and Functions of Just-in-Time VM Access in Azure by John Savill
- Announcing General Availability of Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs) by Takeshi Numoto
- Azure DNS Updates – CAA Record Support and IPv6 Nameservers by Subra Sarma
- NVidia P100 and V100 coming to Azure by Lee Stott
- Different ways of slicing and dicing OMS Log Data in Azure – VM Creation by gpillai
- HPC containers with Azure Batch by Fred Park
- Azure Site Recovery powers TierPoint DRaaS by Mayank Nayar
- New NVIDIA GPUs coming to Azure accelerate HPC and AI workloads by Corey Sanders
- Azure Backup MARS Agent System State Support is GA by Aidan Finn
- Azure Virtual Datacenter by Mark Ozur
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Using A Service Bus For MicroService Communication in Azure by Cameron Vetter
- How to Call Azure Web App API hosted inside Kudu by Simon J.K. Pedersen
- Announcing the general availability of Azure App Service diagnostics by Jennifer Lee
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 52 – Deploy Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code by Michael Crump
- Azure Functions: These are my new favorite squirrels. by rogeorge
- Improvements to Azure Functions in Visual Studio by Justin Clareburt
- The Azure Functions on Linux Preview by Daria Grigoriu
- Azure Functions on IoT Edge by Colby Tresness
- Azure Functions Proxies is now Generally Available by Alex Karcher
- Azure Functions and Azure are blowing my mind by Benjamin Perkins
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 51 – Debug Azure Functions with Visual Studio Code by Michael Crump
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 50 – Create an Azure Functions project with Visual Studio Code by Michael Crump
Command Line and ARM Templates
- Introducing the new CLI for VSTS by Will Smith
- Announcing general availability of Bash in Cloud Shell by Justin Luk
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 49 – Add Azure Cloud Shell to Visual Studio Code by Michael Crump
- Infrastructure as Code-Azure Environment Deployment using ARM templates, DSC, PowerShell and VSTS by Farida Bharmal
Database / Big Data
- Exploring Big Data: Course 7 – Implementing Real-Time Analytics with Azure HDInsight by Samuel Lester
- Getting new insights into your usage of Data Lake Analytics by Ajeta Singhal
- You can manage SQL Servers, Azure SQL DBs and Azure SQL DWHs using our new GUI tool “Microsoft SQL Operations Studio (sqlops)” from your Linux, Mac (and of course Windows) machines 🙂 by Faruk Celik
- Announcing the general availability of Azure #CosmosDB Table API by Denny Lee
- Apache Spark to Azure #CosmosDB Connector is now generally available by Denny Lee
- Pre-announcing the general availability of Azure #CosmosDB Gremlin (Graph) API by Luis Bosquez
- New multi-tenant patterns for building SaaS applications on SQL Database by Ninar Nuemah
- Azure #CosmosDB extends support for MongoDB aggregation pipeline, unique indexes, and more by Aleksey Savateyev
- Connect(“2017”).GetTopAnnouncementsList (“Cloud”,”Data”,”AI”); by Rohan Kumar
- Azure #CosmosDB @ Microsoft Connect(); 2017 by Rimma Nehme
- Exploring Big Data: Course 6 – Processing Big Data with Azure Data Lake Analytics by Samuel Lester
- Dear Cassandra Developers, welcome to Azure #CosmosDB! by Rimma Nehme
- MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL: more choices on Microsoft Azure by Tobias Ternstrom
- A technical overview of Azure Databricks by Peter Carlin
- Find your U-SQL jobs in Azure Data Lake Analytics with one click. by Saveen Reddy
- #AzureSQLDW: Hub and Spoke series Integration with Azure Analysis Services by Arnaud Comet
- PowerApps and Power BI Materials for VS Live by Charles Sterling
Internet of Things (IoT)
- Kinecting to IoT by Greg Duncan
- Azure Functions on IoT Edge by Colby Tresness
- Azure Stream Analytics now available on IoT Edge by Jean-Sqbastien Brunner
- Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure Time Series Insights by Ryan Waite
- Azure IoT Edge brings AI and advanced analytics capabilities to the edge by Microsoft IoT
- Azure IoT Edge open for developers to build for the intelligent edge by Sam George
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud computing guide for researchers – Getting started with AI and Machine Learning by Dr Kenji Takeda
- On-Demand Webinar – AI Development Using Data Science VMs (DSVM), Deep Learning VMs (DLVM) & Azure Batch AI by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Using Azure and AI to Explore the JFK Files by Corom Thompson
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning on the Cutting Edge by Ted Way
- Exciting AI Platform & Tools Announcements from Microsoft by Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- Microsoft Cognitive Services updates for Microsoft Connect(); via Microsoft Azure Blog
- Expanding AI tools and resources for developers and data scientists on Azure by Joseph Sirosh
Development and DevOps
- Access Azure CosmosDB in TypeScript by Wu Shuai
- Introducing Azure DevOps Project by atulm
- Cloud-hosted Mac agents for CI/CD pipelines by David Staheli
- Lift and Shift your .NET App to Azure by Jeremy Likness
- Preview the new Azure Storage SDK for Go & Storage SDKs roadmap by Sercan Guler
- DevOps for Data Science – DevOps isn’t the Toolchain (But you still have to care about the tech) by BuckWoody
- Pipeline as code (YAML) preview by Chris Patterson
- Private TFS Deployment in Azure by mihansen
- Microsoft Is Bringing Real-Time Collaboration to Visual Studio by Mehedi Hassan
- GVFS Updates: More Performance, More Availability by Edward Thomson
- VSTS is now a Symbol Server by Alex Mullans
- Microsoft’s Visual Studio Live Share to improve developer collaboration via ZDNet
- While You’re Waiting for Connect(), Check out DevOps at Microsoft by Sam Guckenheimer
- Creating work item form extensions in Visual Studio Team Services by Mohit K Bagra
Containers and Service Fabric
- Managed Kubernetes on Azure (AKS) by Aram Koukia
- Continuous deployment with Web App for Containers using Azure Container Registry – Part 1 by Paras Patidar
- Continuous deployment with Web App for Containers using Azure Container Registry – Part 2 by Paras Patidar
- Announcing Visual Studio and Kubernetes – Visual Studio Connected Environment by Scott Hanselman
- Building and running a .NET Core application in a Docker Swarm in Azure, via Docker Cloud by Tobias Zimmergren
Security
- Enhanced Azure Security for sending Emails – November 2017 Update by David Goddard
Learning / Certification
- Azure Architecture Exam 70-534 is Retired and Replaced with 70-535 Exam by Chris Pietschmann
- Updates on Microsoft Beta Exam Program: Read This! by Liberty Munson
- 70-537 Microsoft Azure Stack Certification Exam is Coming Soon by Chris Pietschmann
- My Xamarin Story- How I cleared the certification in my first attempt ! by Prachi Kushwah
- Unlock New Labor Market Insights with Your Certification Badge by Selina Winter
- Announcing Five New Business Applications Exams by Selina Winter
Events
Azure Stack
- Azure Stack Validation Environment – Part 1: Overview by Ed Price
- Azure Stack Validation Environment – Part 2: Quotas, Plans, and Offers by Ed Price
- Azure Stack Validation Environment – Part 3: Subscriptions by Ed Price
Azure Government
- Building Real World Solution on Azure Government with Machine Learning by Steve Michelotti
Other
- Bing Maps V8 Web Control SDK November 2017 Update via Bing Team
- Microsoft Connect() 2017 Highlights and Announcements – Bring AI Everywhere by Chris Pietschmann
- Azure receives HPCwire awards by Brett Tanzer
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Keynote – Journey to the intelligent cloud | Connect(); 2017 by Scott Guthrie
- Azure CDN: Dynamic Site Acceleration via Azure Friday
- Azure App Service Diagnostic and Troubleshooting Experience via Azure Friday
- Introducing Visual Studio Live Share | Connect(); 2017 via Channel 9
- Windows Compatibility Pack for .NET Core | Connect(); 2017 via Channel 9
- Kubernetes development with the Visual Studio connected environment | Connect(); 2017 by Scott Hanselman
- Creating the ‘intelligent edge’ with Azure IoT Edge | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Azure Analysis Services Visual Model Editor | Azure Friday via Azure Friday
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 204 – Back to Cloud Services via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 225 | The day the internet disappeared, Azure CDN & Blob goodness, Office 365 APIs going away and Viso Online! via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Docker Tools for .NET Core with Kendra Havens 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:
- Researcher builds supercomputer with Raspberry Pi boards #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi via Adafruit Industries
- CNCF Wants You to Use ‘Certified Kubernetes’ by Christine Hall
- A Primer for Contemporary ‘Machine Learning’ Initiatives via Adafruit Industries
- Manufacturers Identify New Ways to Succeed in Narrowband IoT by Piyush Mandhare
- [Interview] Nokia Managers on Choosing Your IoT Network by Clayton Jacobs
- How Blockchain Could Improve Healthcare Security by Todd R. Weiss
- Mitigating Cybersecurity Threats With Advanced Datacenter Tech by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Docker Enterprise Edition Certified as Kubernetes Conformant by Daniel Hiltgen
- Is the DBA Dead? by SolarWinds Guest Blogger
- Badass Terminal: FCU WSL Edition (oh-my-zsh, powerlevel9k, tmux, and more!) by Jessica Deen
- Red Hat Throws Its Full Support Behind Arm Server Chips by Jeffrey Burt
- IoT Worker Shortage Could Impact IoT Adoption Through 2022 by Todd R. Weiss
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