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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:
- Introducing Azure DevOps
- General availability: Event Hubs for Go
- Power BI Embedded integration with Azure Diagnostics
- Power BI Embedded: New QPU metric
- Power BI Embedded feature: Customize end user’s error experience for embedded reports
- Power BI Embedded feature: Hide the Power BI logo during visualization load
- New connectors in Azure Data Factory: Oracle Service Cloud and Google AdWords
- Azure API Management update September 14
- General availability: Virtual machine serial console
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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
Azure Government
- Cosmos DB on Azure Government by Steve Michelotti
Azure Stack
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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