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The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Avere vFXT for Microsoft Azure now in public preview by Rebecca Thompson
- Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions by Troy Hunt
- Protect Azure Stack Tenant Workloads with Azure Backup Server by Thomas Maurer
- Save money on actuarial compute by retiring your on-premises HPC grids by Nick Leimer
- Anti-money laundering – Microsoft Azure helping banks reduce false positives by Howard Bush
- Microsoft South Central U.S. datacenter outage takes down a number of cloud services via ZDNet
- Using Azure AD B2B collaboration support for Google IDs and Conditional Access by Mike Duddington
- Microsoft Azure now supports NVIDIA GPU Cloud for AI, HPC workloads via ZDNet
- 2018 State of DevOps Report Now Available by Sam Guckenheimer
- Serverless: Cold Start War by Mikhail Shilkov
- Monitoring environmental conditions near underwater datacenters using Deep Learning by Xiaoyong Zhu, Nile Wilson, Ben Cutler, Lucas Joppa
Azure Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Azure HDInsight is now available in South India
- A_V2 series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
- Improvements to meter names and impacts to Power BI content pack reporting
- Kafka 1.1 support on Azure HDInsight
- Azure.Source – Volume 45 now available
- Managed instance general purpose name changes
- Avoid downtime due to Docker scheduled maintenance
- Migrate projects to the Inheritance process model: VSTS Sprint 139 Update
- Azure IoT Edge 1.0.1 release
- Azure DevTest Labs: Public environment repository in labs
- G-series VMs are available in Azure HDInsight
- Support for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL online migrations
- Support for SQL Server to Azure SQL Database online migrations
- August 2018 update to Power BI Report Server
- Power BI Desktop August 2018 release
- Latest update to the Power BI service
- Azure Database migration service support for MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL migrations
- Azure SQL Database managed instance general purpose availability coming soon
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 is now available in Australia and France regions
- Virtual network service endpoints for Azure database services for MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Data Factory supports service principal and MSI authentication for Azure Blob connectors
- Azure Site Recovery Update Rollup 27
- Cross-subscription disaster recovery for Azure virtual machines
- Configure just-in-time virtual machine access from the VM blade
- Improvements to meter names for Enterprise Agreement customers
- Azure.Source – Volume 46 now available
- OMS portal moving to Azure portal
- Public preview: Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure VMs
- Updates to file support and Windows services tracking in Change Tracking and Inventory
- Azure API Management update August 28
- Azure Government cloud integration for Azure Stack
- Azure Stack support for Azure Backup
- Ability to incrementally add capacity to Azure Stack
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues in a virtual network
- Managed Disks in Azure Stack
- New log experience in the Azure portal
- Azure Security Center update August 29
- General availability: Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Key Vault
- Public preview: Data Box Disk now available in Australia and Canada
- Azure.Source – Volume 47 now available
- General availability: Event Hubs for Python
- Azure Data Box: Expanded availability, plus support for NFS and RBAC
- Filter VM sizes by current or previous generation
- Avere vFXT for Azure
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse enables streaming solutions with Azure Databricks
- Migration support for PostgreSQL to Azure DB for PostgreSQL
- Announcing general availability of Azure IoT Hub integration with Azure Event Grid
- Azure Database Migration Service: PostgreSQL to Azure DB for PostgreSQL migrations support
- BulkExecutor for Azure Cosmos DB Gremlin API now available
- SQL Data Warehouse now available in Government Cloud
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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)
- AKS with Kubenet vs Azure Networking plug-in by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Azure 101: Monitoring & Logging Part 1 by Christopher Harrison
- Avere vFXT for Microsoft Azure now in public preview by Rebecca Thompson
- Get Virtual Machine ScaleSet private IPs by Fabien Dibot
- Adding Address Spaces To An Azure Virtual Network by Aidan Finn
- Save money on actuarial compute by retiring your on-premises HPC grids by Nick Leimer
- Microsoft Azure, the cloud for high performance computing by Brett Tanzer
- Monitor all Azure Backup protected workloads using Log Analytics by Kartik P V R
- Autoscale Azure Batch pools when running MPI applications by Paul Edwards
- Orica’s S/4HANA Foundational Architecture Design on Azure by Cameron
- Cross-subscription disaster recovery for Azure virtual machines by Sujay Talasila
- DPDK (Data Plane Development Kit) for Linux VMs now generally available by Laxmana Rao Battula
- Finding the signal of community in all the noise at Black Hat by Cloud Perspectives Blog
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Changing the Replication Type of an Azure Storage Account by David Giard
- Configuring node.js application on Azure App Service with Azure Blob Storage by Kruthi Villivalam
- Debugging Node.js applications on Azure App Services Linux/containers by Kruthi Villavalam
- Introducing Ghost 2.x on Azure App Service by Radoslav Gatev
- Azure App Services: Determine supported dotnet core version by Martin Brandl
- Reaching Azure disk storage limit on General Purpose Azure SQL Database Managed Instance by Jovan Popovic
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- Building Rest APIs on Top of Azure Cosmos DB Using Azure Functions by BenJarvis
- Introduction to Azure Durable Functions by Maxime Rouiller
- Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions by Troy Hunt
- Serverless: Cold Start War by Mikhail Shilkov
- Logic Apps, Flow connectors will make Automating Video Indexer simpler than ever by Uri Greenberg
Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Microsoft relents on Office support cutoff dates via ZDNet
- Microsoft touts more AI-powered OneDrive for Business and SharePoint features due later this year via ZDNet
Command-Line / ARM Templates
- Using Azure CLI to open Kubernetes dashboard by gpillai
- Working with Azure SQL Managed Instance using Azure CLI by Jovan Popovic
- Creating a Service Principal with Azure CLI by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Using custom SonarQube rules to validate ARM templates by WouterDeKort
Database / Big Data
- Exciting new capabilities on Azure HDInsight by Ashish Thapiliyal
- Powerful Debugging Tools for Spark for Azure HDInsight by Jenny Jiang
- CosmosDB change feed processor – leases and work balancing strategy by Kaduk Frantisek
- Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 now generally available in France and Australia by Igor Stanko
- How to create a read only user for a SQL Azure database by Benjamin Perkins
- Online migration from AWS RDS MySQL to Azure Database for MySQL by Shau Phang
- Azure Data Architecture Guide – Blog #2: On-demand big data analytics by Ed Price
- Sending emails in Azure SQL Managed Instance by Jovan Popovic
- Azure Tips and Tricks 152 – Get the Record Count in Cosmos DB by Michael Crump
- Sharing a self-hosted Integration Runtime infrastructure with multiple Data Factories by Abhishek Narain
- Automactically move data from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Blob Storage by Abhijit Jana
- Act now! Migrate your customers running Windows Server and SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 to Azure by Rob Davies
Internet of Things (IoT)
- How to Control Downstream Device from IoT Edge by Wu Shuai
- Azure Content Spotlight – Where is the market opportunity for developers of IoT solutions? by chilberto
- TOMRA Leverages IoT to Revolutionize Recycling by Peter Cooper
- Where is the market opportunity for developers of IoT solutions? by Diego Tamburini
- Describe, diagnose, and predict with IoT Analytics by Diego Tamburini
- Announcing general availability of Azure IoT Hub’s integration with Azure Event Grid by Ashita Rastogi
- Extracting actionable insights from IoT data to drive more efficient manufacturing by Diego Tamburini
- Azure IoT Toolkit supports C#, Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python and Ruby to develop Azure IoT application in VS Code by formulahendry
- Introducing yet another approach for iot compiler toolchains – iotz by Oguz Bastemur
- Hardening the security of Azure IoT Edge by Eustsace Asanghanwa
- Azure IoT Edge support for Raspbian 8.0/Debian 8.0 by Laurelle
Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence
- Connected Arms – Can AI Revolutionize Prosthetic Devices & Make them More Affordable? by ML Blog Team
- Creating and Testing a Bot with the Microsoft Bot Framework by David Giard
- Current use cases for machine learning in retail and consumer goods by Marty Donovan
- See How AI is Inspiring the Next Generation of Developers by Nile Wilson
- Microsoft touts AI, circular microphone advances in overlapped speech recognition work via ZDNet
- Finish your insurance actuarial modeling in hours, not days by Scott Seely
- Delivering innovation in retail with the flexible and productive Microsoft AI platform by Mariya Zorotovich
- Microsoft Azure now supports NVIDIA GPU Cloud for AI, HPC workloads via ZDNet
- Two seconds to take a bite out of mobile bank fraud with Artificial Intelligence by Kate Baroni
- Turn Whiteboard UX Sketches into Working HTML in Seconds – Introducing Sketch2Code by Tara Shankar Jana
- Four trends powering healthcare AI, and what you can do about it by David Houlding
- Keeping shelves stocked and consumers happy (and shopping!) by Mariya Zorotovich
- Accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare using Microsoft Azure blueprints by David Starr
- Monitoring environmental conditions near underwater datacenters using Deep Learning by Xiaoyong Zhu, Nile Wilson, Ben Cutler, Lucas Joppa
- Getting the Swagger.JSON file from #AzureML by Jen Stirrup
Development and DevOps
- What happens when you mix Asp.Net Core, different versions of Docker and Azure for the first time by Frank Boucher
- VSTS Impact due to Datacenter Outage in South Central US via Visual Studio Team Services
- How to get started with Azure and .NET by Andrew B Hall
- 2018 State of DevOps Report Now Available by Sam Guckenheimer
- Helping Go developers build better cloud apps faster by Josh Gavant
- WebJobs in Azure with .NET Core 2.1 by Sander Rossel
Containers / Service Fabric
- Deploying AKS with ARM Template – Network integration by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Microsoft Azure Service Fabric 6.3 Refresh Release (CU1) Notes by Service Fabric Team
Blockchain / Smart Contracts
- Azure Blockchain Workbench, Object Detection, and More on The Friday Five! via MVP Award Program
- Multi-member consortium support with Azure Blockchain Workbench 1.3.0 by Zeyad Rajabi
Security / Privacy
- Federation patterns using Azure AD via SailingRock
- Implementing Multiple Identities in your .NET Core Web App — Part 1 by Andreas Helland
- Anti-money laundering – Microsoft Azure helping banks reduce false positives by Howard Bush
- How to Add an Azure AD Role to a Enterprise Application (Service Principal) by Frank Hu
- Using Azure AD B2B collaboration support for Google IDs and Conditional Access by Mike Duddington
- Protecting privacy in Microsoft Azure: GDPR, Azure Policy Updates by Pradeep Nair
- A Microsoft DevSecOps Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Exercise by Michael C. Fanning
Learning / Certification
- MCT Monthly Newsletter – September 2018 via Born to Learn Blog
- New Beta Exam! 70-777: Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions by Liberty Munson
Azure Stack
- Azure Stack cloudapp name resolution by Mark Scholman
- Adding SQL IaaS extension into a disconnected Azure Stack by gpillai
- Protect Azure Stack Tenant Workloads with Azure Backup Server by Thomas Maurer
- Sync Azure Blob Storage with Azure Stack Blob Storage by Thomas Maurer
Azure Government
Events
- Join the Bing Maps APIs team at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, Florida by Bing Team
- Microsoft Azure Data welcomes attendees to VLDB 2018 by Rohan Kumar
Other
- New! Azure Starter Packs now available by Karina Homme
- Azure Maps Simplified by Premier Devleoper
- Windows Server 2019 – What is coming Next by Thomas Maurer
- Reduce costs by optimizing actuarial risk compute on Azure by Nick Leimer
- Azure Media Services: Live Streaming by David Giard
- Azure Tips and Tricks 154 – How to quickly check the EndPoint API of QnA Maker by Michael Crump
- Azure Tips and Tricks Part 150 – Use the Mac Touch Bar to launch the Azure Portal by Michael Crump
- Microsoft South Central U.S. datacenter outage takes down a number of cloud services via ZDNet
- Driving industry transformation with Azure by Premier Developer
- Azure Content Spotlight – Migrate Apps to Azure by Sjoukje Zaal
- Why it is important to create Azure support requests by Kirill Kotlyarenko
- Adding Closed Captions to a Video with Azure Media Services by David Giard
- Azure Tips and Tricks 153 – How to get the Azure Account Tenant Id? by Michael Crump
- A quick take on the State of Hybrid Cloud survey by Ellen Ernstberger
- Expanded Azure Blueprint for FFIEC compliant workloads by Alan Ross
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Enhanced productivity using Azure Data Factory visual tools | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Go on Azure: Part 4—Cloud-native Go apps | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Monitoring And Diagnostics of an IoT Solution with Azure IoT Hub | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Azure Event Hubs with Kafka coolness | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Windows IoT #5: Using Device Methods with IoT Hub (Getting Started Series) | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
- Custom Vision – Object Detection Made Easy | The Xamarin Show via Channel 9
- Douglas Crockford on Clutter in Programming Languages by David Giard
- Azure Event Hubs with Kafka coolness | Tuesdays With Corey by RicksertCDN
- IoT In Action – Introducing Azure Sphere | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Customer Identity Management with Azure AD B2C | On .NET via Channel 9
- Azure Media Services – Uploading, Encoding, and Sharing a Video via David Giard
- Azure IoT Hub and Azure Event Grid | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Go on Azure: Part 3—Go on Web Apps and Azure Kubernetes Service | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Azure Automation via Azure Friday
- Azure Stack – An extension of Azure | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Azure Site Recovery between Regions | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Go on Azure: Part 5—Build apps with the Azure SDK for Go via Azure Friday
- Go on Azure: Part 4—Cloud-native Go apps via Azure Friday
- Go on Azure: Part 1—Build Go apps with Visual Studio Code | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Go on Azure: Part 6—Events and messaging via Azure Friday
- Go on Azure: Part 7—Build a Go app with Buffalo and deploy to Azure via Azure Friday
- Go on Azure: Part 2—CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes with VSTS | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Awesome Demo of Azure Migrate tool | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Microsoft Smart IoT Campus | 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 245 – Azure Certifications via The Azure Podcast
- Accelerate: The State of Dev Ops with Dr. Nicole Forsgren via Hanselminutes
- Episode 81 – Microsoft Intune and Mobile Device Management via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Episode 269 | LIVE at SharePoint Fest Seattle Day 2 and ACs Continuous Collaboration Keynote via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 268 | LIVE at SharePoint Fest Seattle via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 244 – Azure Container Instances via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 80 – Hybrid Azure Active Directory Join via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Power BI 43: What’s new in the August 2018 update via The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
- PowerApps Podcast 5: PowerApps in Education with Brian Dang from Microsoft via The Microsoft Business Applications Podcast
- Episode 267 | Future of App Development with Azure AD via Microsoft Cloud Show
- Episode 79 – Azure Application Gateway via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Episode 243 – Azure File Sync via The Azure Podcast
- The Nine Knights of Azure with Adam Cogan via .NET Rocks!
- Inside Linux on Windows with WSL and Tara Raj via Hanselminutes
- Episode 242 – Azure FastTrack 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:
- Dynamic Programming Language Julia 1.0 Released by nicknormal
- Are Hyperscalers And Clouds Builders Smashing Up An IT Pangea? by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- How IoT is Powering the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Broadcasting by Jeisica Lapsiwala
- Future Clouds Could Be Just Containers On Bare Metal by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Apple Autonomous Test Vehicle Involved in Accident on August 24 by Juli Clover
- Are Containers Replacing Virtual Machines? by Jenny Fong
- Intel’s Exascale Dataflow Engine Drops X86 And Von Neumann by Timothy Prickett Morgan
- System And Chip Architecture Shifts To A Heterogeneous World by Jeffrey Burt
- Dell EMC Leans On VMware In The Cloud by Jeffrey Burt
- Xilinx Unveils xDNN FPGA Architecture for AI Inference by Nicole Hemsoth
- NVIDIA Announces its new RTX GPUs, 2080 and 2080Ti Coming Next Month by Brad Sams
- Arm Says Future Chips to Offer Desktop-Class Performance by Paul Thurrott
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