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The Weeks Top Links

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

Protect data in use with the public preview of Azure confidential computing by Christine Avanessians
Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source by Erich Andersen
Breaking Azure Functions with Too Many Connections by Troy Hunt
Azure Functions V2 Is Released, How Performant Is It? by Mikhail Shilkov
Generation 2 Virtual Machines Make Their First Public Appearance in Microsoft Azure by Aidan Finn
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 164 – Defining Parameters to be used with ARM Templates by Michael Crump
Getting Started with the Kusto Query Language (KQL) by Ben Martens
One month retirement notice: Access Control Service by Jay Lu

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)

Generation 2 Virtual Machines Make Their First Public Appearance in Microsoft Azure by Aidan Finn
Identify your move-groups and target sizes for migration with Azure Migrate by Sneha Agrawal
Protect data in use with the public preview of Azure confidential computing by Christine Avanessians

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Secure your data in Azure Storage Accounts using RBAC (Role-Based Access Control) by Tobias Zimmergren

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Breaking Azure Functions with Too Many Connections by Troy Hunt
Azure Functions V2 Is Released, How Performant Is It? by Mikhail Shilkov
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 163 – Provide Static App Settings Values in an ARM Template by Michael Crump
A fast, serverless, big data pipeline powered by a single Azure Function by Kate Baroni
Azure KeyVault integration for Azure Function v2 by Boris Wilhelms

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Microsoft Flow – Copy files from SharePoint to a local PC by Samuel Lester
Microsoft Flow and PowerApps monitoring strategy by Om Chauhan

Command-Line / ARM Templates

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 164 – Defining Parameters to be used with ARM Templates by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 162 – ARM Templates Demystified by Michael Crump

Database / Big Data

Data models within Azure Analysis Services and Power BI by Dan Stillwell
Getting Started with the Kusto Query Language (KQL) by Ben Martens
Supercharge your Azure Stream Analytics queries with C# code by Sid Ramadoss
Troubleshooting Query timeouts in SQL Server by Don Castelino
BizTalk Server Tips and Tricks: Another way to set unlimited occurrences on schema elements by Sandro Pereira
Creating a data stream from NIST manufacturing lab data – Part 1 by Ercenk Keresteci
Say “Yes” to NoSQL for .NET SQL Developers by Jeremy Likness
Re-define analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 tier now generally available by Kuber Sharma

Internet of Things (IoT)

Azure IOT: IOT Toolkit extension for VS Code by Deva
Unleash the value of Industrial IoT with Kepware and Azure IoT Edge by Steve Busby

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Power Bat – How Spektacom is Powering the Game of Cricket with Microsoft AI by ML Blog Team
Driving identity security in banking using biometric identification by Howard Bush
Making HIPAA and HITRUST compliance easier by David Starr
Announcing ML.NET 0.6 (Machine Learning .NET) by Cesar de la Torre
Snip Insights – Cross-platform open source AI tool for intelligent screen capture by Tara Jana
Creating AI that can respond to questions in mixed languages like humans by Dr. Manoj Chinnakotia

Development and DevOps

Top Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.10.12

Containers / Service Fabric

Ingest Azure Redis Cache messages into Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana cluster deployed in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by Atul Verma
Restrict access to login for the WordPress running on Azure web app container by Yi Wang
Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 1 – Docker images by Richard Seroter
Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 3 – Background, batch, and scheduled jobs by Richard Seroter
Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 4 – Data pipelines by Richard Seroter
Wait, THAT runs on Pivotal Cloud Foundry? Part 5 – .NET Framework apps by Richard Seroter
About Ingress in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS): Azure AD SAML based Single Sign on to secure Elasticsearch and Kibana and securing communications in ELK by Atul Verma
Fun with SQL Server Containers by Donovan Brown

Blockchain / Smart Contracts

Improved governance experience with Ethereum Proof-of-Authority 1.2 by Cody Born

Quantum Computing

Microsoft is hiring former Qualcomm engineers to work on its quantum computing team via ZDNet

Security / Privacy

Secure your Azure Storage Accounts with restrictions based on public IP addresses by Tobias Zimmergren
Enhancing the security of Azure Automation Webhooks in an Azure DevSecOps context by Stephane Eyskens
One month retirement notice: Access Control Service by Jay Lu

Learning / Certification

Azure Education Governance Series by Eric W. DeBord

Azure Government

Utilizing PaaS services and ARM deployment templates on Azure Government by Yujin Hong
New capabilities to enable your mission end to end via Azure Gov Team
ServiceNow Digital Workflows coming to Azure Government customers via Azure Gov Team
Enabling intelligent cloud and intelligent edge solutions for government by Julia White

Azure Stack

Azure Stack VM’s: Update Management, Inventory, Change Tracking and more! by Kristopher Turner
Azure Stack: Fixing Admin and Tenant Portal Login Times by Kristopher Turner

Events

Intelligent Cloud Architect Deep Dive – Registration Open! by Sarah Arnold

Other

Password-less phone sign-in with Microsoft Authenticator App by Ronni Pedersen
Could this be Microsoft’s next HoloLens headset? via ZDNet
Azure Portal October update by Leon Welicki
Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source by Erich Andersen
Microsoft is beefing up its Azure bandwidth, video encoding for Project xCloud game streaming via ZDNet

Videos

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

Jeffrey Palermo on DevOps for Mid-Market Companies via David Giard
Azure Digital Twins Introduction | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Introducing new Azure API Management capabilities via Channel 9
Azure CosmosDB with Other APIs via David Giard
Azure IoT Edge CLI tooling | 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:

Power BI & More 44: Introducing Dataflows with Scott Sewell via The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
Episode 89 – Azure Migrate with Jeremy Winter via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 250 – SignalR Service via The Azure Podcast
Embedding Power BI with Peter Myers via .NET Rocks!
Episode 274 | OneDrive & SharePoint News from Ignite 2018 with Aaron Rimmer & Adam Harmetz via Microsoft Cloud Show
Episode 88 – Advanced Data Governance with Erica Toelle 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:

Architecting Storage And Compute At Exascale by Daniel Robinson
How Does an Intel Processor Boot? @intel #computers by Mike Barela
Intel Announces First 9th-Generation Core Processors by Paul Thurrott

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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.