Are you having difficulty keeping up to date on all the frequent changes and updates in the Microsoft Azure space? Then the Build Azure Weekly has the solution you’re looking for. Build Azure Weekly is a weekly blog post that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Service Updates from the week in addition to links to many other blog articles, podcasts and videos from all over the Internet.
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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- General availability: UK geography and two new Azure regions
- Public preview: Microsoft Operations Management Suite Docker container monitoring
- Azure Scheduler available in United Kingdom
- API Management service update: Sept 6, 2016
- API Management: How to mock responses
- Major update to SQL Database Advisor makes database performance tuning much faster
- New Azure Batch capabilities
Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft Azure now available from UK datacenters by Tom Keane
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Run Azure CLI as a Docker Container by Dan Patrick
- Now offering: Azure Government in pricing calculator by Spenser Bullock
- Deploying Java WAR File to Azure Service Fabric using VSTS by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
- Getting started with Azure Data Lake Analytics and Store has never been faster! by Yan Li
- My New Azure Book by Michael Collier
- Improving the D/L Method using Machine Learning by Sarvashrestha Paliwal
- Encoding and delivery of UHD content by Anil Murching
- UK Governance, Security and Compliance Issues Post Brexit-Whitepaper by Thomas W Shinder
- Need to find a quick link to something in Azure? by Omer Amin
- Azure SQL Database Threat Detection-Advanced DB Security in the Cloud by Thomas W Shinder
- Enterprise-level policy management for Azure VM backup in Recovery Services vault by Trinadh Kotturu
- Use Azure DNS Service (preview) form Azure VMs by Harry Chen
- Azure SQL Database Threat Detection – Advanced DB Security in the Cloud by Thomas W Shinder
- Azure Active Directory Labs Series – Adding Claims by Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
- Using VSTS from Eclipse by Mahesh M Kshirsagar
- Java Development with VSTS – Available Now! by Sachin Hridayraj
- Hello Azure! by Michiel van Otegem
- Azure Networking Fridays with the Azure Black Belt Team by Olivier Martin
- Artificial Intelligence Made Easy: Cognitive Services at the Microsoft Data Science Summit by Jennifer Marsman
- In case you missed it: The three most common challenges to IoT problem via Microsoft IoT
- Implementing Product Catalogs in SQL Server and Azure SQL database by Jovan Popovic
- How to rename the App Fabric service after renaming the server by Saurav Dey
- Improved Automatic Tuning boosts your Azure SQL Database performance by Vladimir Ivanovic
- Accessing Azure Storage Services REST API by Maheshk
- Azure Redis Cache on ASP.NET Core by Luis Henrique Demetrio
- Azure IoT Hub enables reliable secure bidirectional communications between millions of IoT devices by Lee Stott
- Scalable Applications in Azure – A Conceptual Overview by Edin Kapic
- Azure CLI ‘Command Line Interface’ for Web Site & Database Management by Lee Stott
- Introduction to Azure Traffic Manager by Luis Henrique Demetrio
- Publishing ASP.NET Core on Azure by Luis Henrique Demetrio
- Controlling your Azure Functions Code by Martin Abbott
- The “Have I been pwned” API rate limit has been brought forward – here’s why by Troy Hunt
- Jet Engine Monitor with Windows IoT Core and Azure IoT Suite @Raspberry_Pi #piday #raspberrypi via Adafruit Industries
- Microsoft Azure at IBC 2016 by Sudheer Sirivara
Events
Here are links to event or about events that were posted over the past week.
- Microsoft Ignite: All things Azure Stack by Wale Martins
- Microsoft Operations Management & Security product meet-up at Ignite 2016 by Thomas W Shinder
- Join us! DC Azure Gov Meetup on container strategies in government – Sept. 29 by Karina Homme
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Service Fabric Series (2 of 3) – Service Fabric with Containers – Episode 211 via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
- Azure Redis Security Caching via Azure Friday
- Training: Microsoft Azure IaaS Deep Dive Jump Start via Microsoft Virtual Academy
- Building a Windows 10 IOT App | Visual Studio Toolbox via Channel 9
- SQL Server 2016 with StretchDB, Temporal, and AlwaysEncrypted | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
- Tuesdays with Corey: New functionality in Azure Portal! via Channel 9
- Device to device communication using Azure IoT Hub via Channel 9
- Jakub Jedryszek on the Azure Portal via David Giard
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:
- Podcasting at Ignite, Public Cloud News and Listener Questions | Episode 145 via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud
Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Free eBook: Microsoft Platform and Tools for Mobile App Development by Chris Pietschmann
- Windows 10 IoT Core Compatible Boards by Chris Pietschmann
- Installing Windows 10 IoT Core on Raspberry Pi 3 by Teju Shyamsundar
Book of the Week
Infrastructure as Code: Managing Servers in the Cloud
by Kief Morris
Virtualization, cloud, containers, server automation, and software-defined networking are meant to simplify IT operations. But many organizations adopting these technologies have found that it only leads to a faster-growing sprawl of unmanageable systems. This is where infrastructure as code can help. With this practical guide, author Kief Morris of ThoughtWorks shows you how to effectively use principles, practices, and patterns pioneered through the DevOps movement to manage cloud age infrastructure.
Ideal for system administrators, infrastructure engineers, team leads, and architects, this book demonstrates various tools, techniques, and patterns you can use to implement infrastructure as code. In three parts, you’ll learn about the platforms and tooling involved in creating and configuring infrastructure elements, patterns for using these tools, and practices for making infrastructure as code work in your environment.
- Examine the pitfalls that organizations fall into when adopting the new generation of infrastructure technologies
- Understand the capabilities and service models of dynamic infrastructure platforms
- Learn about tools that provide, provision, and configure core infrastructure resources
- Explore services and tools for managing a dynamic infrastructure
- Learn specific patterns and practices for provisioning servers, building server templates, and updating running servers