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The Weeks Top Links

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

Video Indexer – General availability and beyond by Ella Ben-Tov
Microsoft is bringing Cosmos DB to Azure Stack and Azure Sphere via ZDNet
New Price Drops for App Service on Linux by Jennifer Lee
Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool GA Release by Jeremy Geib
Visual Studio Team Services has been rebranded to Azure DevOps via Dynamics Lifecycle Services Communication
Upcoming Public Preview Availability of PostgreSQL Online Migration in Azure Database Migration Service by Jim Toland
How Security Center and Log Analytics can be used for Threat Hunting by Ajeet Prakash
Five habits of highly effective Azure users by Omar Khan
Azure preparedness for Hurricane Florence by Jeremy Hollett
A decision tree for Azure Networking by David Sanchez
AzureCAT Whitepaper: SQL Server database files and backups on Azure Storage for SAP workloads by Ed Price
GPUs vs CPUs for Deployment of Deep Learning Models by Fidan Boylu Uz
Application Insights improvements for Java and Node.js by Nik Molnar
The new business imperative: A unified cloud security strategy by Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Microsoft Announces New Headquarters in Canada by Mehedi Hassan
Announcing the New Auto Healing Experience in App Service Diagnostics by Jennifer Lee
Announcing Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes for open source by Jeremy Epling
Introducing Azure DevOps by Jamie Cool

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)

Azure Log Analytics: Do you need some demo data? by CliveW
Azure Log Analytics: A little more on Parse and Print by CliveW
How to Create Your Custom Artifacts for DevTest Labs by Frank Boucher
A decision tree for Azure Networking by David Sanchez
GPUs vs CPUs for Deployment of Deep Learning Models by Fidan Boylu Uz

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

New Price Drops for App Service on Linux by Jennifer Lee
Application Insights improvements for Java and Node.js by Nik Molnar
Announcing the New Auto Healing Experience in App Service Diagnostics by Jennifer Lee

Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 156 – Use Azure Logic Apps to Detect when a new SQL record is inserted by Michael Crump
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 157 – Part 1 Create Thumbnail Images with Azure Functions and Azure Storage by Michael Crump

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Monitoring Dynamics 365 front to backend activities with Azure Application Insights by Clement Olivier

Command-Line / ARM Templates

How to list all App Services within an App Service plan using PowerShell by Benjamin Perkins

Database / Big Data

Azure SQL Database SKU Recommendation Utility by Justin Henriksen
CosmosDB change feed processor 2.1 released (monitoring enhancements) by Kaduk Frantisek
SQL Audit logs in Azure Log Analytics and Azure Event Hubs by Ronit Reger
Real-time data analytics and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by Jeff King
What is built-in intelligence in Azure SQL Database? by Jovan Popovic
Upcoming Public Preview Availability of PostgreSQL Online Migration in Azure Database Migration Service by Jim Toland
HDInsight Tools for VSCode: Integrations with Azure Account and HDInsight Explorer by Jenny Jiang
AzureCAT Whitepaper: SQL Server database files and backups on Azure Storage for SAP workloads by Ed Price
Retail brands: gain a competitive advantage with modern data management by Mariya Zorotovich
AI helps troubleshoot an intermittent SQL Database performance issue in one day by Danimir Ljepava

Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence

Practical application of artificial intelligence that can transform cybersecurity by Ann Johnson
Saving State Data with the Microsoft Bot Framework by David Giard
Video Indexer – General availability and beyond by Ella Ben-Tov
Customizing Azure Blueprints to accelerate AI in healthcare by David Starr
Use AI to streamline healthcare operations by David Starr
Kickstart your artificial intelligence/machine learning journey with the Healthcare Blueprint by David Starr
Announcing ML.NET 0.5 by Cesar de la Torre
Pioneers in AI – Conversations with AI Thought Leaders by ML Blog Team
How to extract building footprints from satellite images using deep learning by Siyu Yang
Data Center Scale Computing and Artificial Intelligence with Matei Zaharia, Inventor of Apache Spark by ML Blog Team
Why Would Prosthetic Arms Need to See or Connect to Cloud AI? by Joseph Sirosh

Development and DevOps

How to access private Azure DevOps repos from a Dockerfile! by Jessica Deen
Introducing Azure DevOps by Jamie Cool
DevOps Stories – An Interview with Brian Blackman of Microsoft Premier by Premier Developer
What’s new in Azure DevOps Launch Update by Alex Nichols
Visual Studio Team Services has been rebranded to Azure DevOps via Dynamics Lifecycle Services Communication
Deep dive into Azure Boards by Aaron Bjork
GitLab Integration for Azure Pipelines extension by Utkarsh Shigihalli
Meet Azure DevOps – formerly known as VSTS by Jakob Ehn
VSTS is dead, long live Azure DevOps by Aram Koukia
Announcing Azure Pipelines with unlimited CI/CD minutes for open source by Jeremy Epling
Build your first Web API with F#, Giraffe and host it on Azure Cloud by Aram Koukia

Containers / Service Fabric

Introduction to Docker – Deploy a multi-container application by Matteo Pagani
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Deploying Angular, ASP.NET Core and SQL Server on Linux by Atul. Verma
Service Fabric Community Q&A – 28th Edition by Service Fabric Team
Docker in Azure VM by chilberto

Security / Privacy

Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool GA Release by Jeremy Geib
How Security Center and Log Analytics can be used for Threat Hunting by Ajeet Prakash
Reduce false positives, become more efficient by automating anti-money laundering detection by Howard Bush
Learn how Key Vault is used to secure the Healthcare AI Blueprint by David Starr

Learning / Certification

Microsoft Ignite Immersion Zone: So much to do and learn! by BJ O’Hare

Azure Government

Cosmos DB on Azure Government by Steve Michelotti

Azure Stack

Microsoft is bringing Cosmos DB to Azure Stack and Azure Sphere via ZDNet

Events

Come check out Azure Stack at Ignite 2018 by Cheng Wei
Meet the Azure SQL Database team at Microsoft Ignite Conference by Ajay.MSFT

Other

Microsoft Azure Media Services and our partners Welkom you to IBC 2018 by Sudheer Sirivara
From Microsoft Azure to everyone attending IBC Show 2018 – Welkom in Amsterdam! by Tad Brockway
A Look at the Azure Query Editor and More on The Friday Five! via MVP Award Program Blog
Five habits of highly effective Azure users by Omar Khan
Azure preparedness for Hurricane Florence by Jeremy Hollett
The new business imperative: A unified cloud security strategy by Microsoft Cloud Perspectives Blog Team
Microsoft Announces New Headquarters in Canada by Mehedi Hassan
Five options to help actuarial and account processes meet IFRS-17 deadlines by Nick Leimer
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 155 – Archive the Azure Activity Log by Michael Crump

Videos

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

Join IoT in Action to Build Transformational IoT Solutions | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
iotz: a new approach to IoT compile toolchains | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
Unlock petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with aggregations in Power BI | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Unlock petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with aggregations in Power BI via Channel 9
Azure State Configuration experience | Azure Friday via Channel 9
Azure Media Services – Closed Captioning 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:

Forge Your Future with Open Source and VM Brasseur via Hanselminutes
Episode 246 – South Central US outage discussion via The Azure Podcast
Episode 82 – Microsoft Teams with Karuana Gatimu via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
Episode 270 | Azure’s Meltdown of September 4, 2018 via Microsoft Cloud Show

General Cloud / Related

Here’s some noteworthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:

Nvidia Takes On The Inference Hordes With Turing GPUs by Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Cloud is Where Quantum Competition Gets Real by Nicole Hemsoth
How do you use System.Drawing in .NET Core? by Scott Hanselman
Trading Off Security And Performance Thanks To Spectre And Meltdown by Jeffrey Burt
Linus Torvalds Apologizes for Being a Jerk by Paul Thurrott
Project:Rosenbrdige – ‘Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs’ by nicknormal
NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit CRICKIT for micro:bit by Angelica

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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.