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The Weeks Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft acquires Movere to help customers unlock cloud innovation with seamless migration tools via Jeremy Winter
- How to Save Money on Azure using Azure Reservations via Thomas Maurer
- Microsoft will test xCloud gaming over 5G in Korea via Tom Warren
- Petrofac transforms large-scale construction with Azure IoT via Tony Shakib
- How to setup an end-to-end Azure DevOps pipeline from an Azure Web App via jldeen
- Reduce disaster recovery time with Azure Site Recovery via Rajani Janaki Ram
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)
- Reduce disaster recovery time with Azure Site Recovery via Rajani Janaki Ram
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- How to setup an end-to-end Azure DevOps pipeline from an Azure Web App via jldeen
- How to script Scale Rules for Azure App Services via jsanders
- How to setup Azure CDN with Azure Storage (and allow Twitter Cards with images) via jldeen
Serverless and Functions as a Service (FaaS)
- My learnings from running the Azure Functions Updates Twitterbot for half a year via I ❤ Serverless
- Discovering the Durable Functions API – Purge & Terminate Orchestrations (DurableOrchestrationClient part 3) via I ❤ Serverless
Command-Line and ARM Templates
- Discovering the Durable Functions API – Purge & Terminate Orchestrations (DurableOrchestrationClient part 3) via I ❤ Serverless
Database and Big Data
- Docs on Azure SQL Database Machine Learning Services | Data Exposed via Microsoft Developer
Internet of Things (IoT)
- When it comes to industrial IoT, the incumbents are winning via Stacey Higginbotham
- Is the IoT Market Maturing? Microsoft Report and Partners Share New Trends & Opportunities via Justin Slade
- Petrofac transforms large-scale construction with Azure IoT via Tony Shakib
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Docs on Azure SQL Database Machine Learning Services | Data Exposed via Microsoft Developer
- Microsoft and Qualcomm accelerate AI with Vision AI Developer Kit via Anne Yang
- Accelerating AI With GPU Virtualization In The Cloud via Jeffrey Burt
DevOps and Development
- How to setup an end-to-end Azure DevOps pipeline from an Azure Web App via jldeen
- Azure DevOps – Build and Release pipeline to Azure File Storage via Sanganak – Authority
- Git Graph Visualizes Branches in VS Code for Free via Steve Smith
- Microsoft and Qualcomm accelerate AI with Vision AI Developer Kit via Anne Yang
Azure Stack
- Azure Stack – It is time to party like it is 2019! via Kristopher Turner
Learning and Certification
- How to Prepare and Pass a Microsoft Azure Exam via Thomas Maurer
XBox and xCloud
- Microsoft will test xCloud gaming over 5G in Korea via Tom Warren
Other
- Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 43 via Christine Alford
- How to Save Money on Azure using Azure Reservations via Thomas Maurer
- Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- How to re-open an Azure Support Case via jsanders
- Achievement Unlocked: Microsoft MVP via Joe Carlyle
- Microsoft acquires Movere to help customers unlock cloud innovation with seamless migration tools via Jeremy Winter
- Microsoft buys cloud-migration specialist Movere via ZDNet | microsoft RSS
- Azure in the Enterprise- Penny Pinching? via Michael
- Nvidia Shows Off Tech Chops With RC18 Inference Chip via Timothy Prickett Morgan
- Azure Cost Management updates – August 2019 via Michael Flanakin
- Beyond the printed form: Unlocking insights from documents with Form Recognizer via Neta Haiby
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Multiple node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Cognitive Search – Azure Search with AI | Azure Friday via Channel 9
- Multiple node pools in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- Cognitive Search – Azure Search with AI via Azure Friday (HD) – Channel 9
- Data Exposed | Docs on Azure SQL Database Machine Learning Services | Data Exposed via Channel 9
- Generating Web Services from Smart Contracts Based on Logic Apps, Flows, and Azure Functions | Block Talk via Channel 9
- Azure Data Explorer for IoT Data Analytics | Internet of Things Show via Channel 9
- Anomaly detection on streaming data using Azure Databricks | AI Show via Channel 9
- Leveraging the Dependency Injection support in Azure Functions | On .NET via Channel 9
Podcast
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 295 – Azure Backup Update via The Azure Podcast
- Episode 141 – Microsoft Cloud News – Hurricane Dorian Edition via Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast
- Episode 318 | Catching Up on the Latest Cloud News via Microsoft Cloud Show
Azure Service Updates
Here are the latest service updates from Microsoft over the last week:
- SQL Server Data Tools is now available with Visual Studio 2019 Preview
- Azure Logic Apps updates for July and August 2019
- Updates to Azure DevOps and App Service improvements
- Upgrade all Kubernetes 1.10.x clusters to a supported version by October 25, 2019
- We’re retiring v1.x of the JavaScript SDK for Azure Cosmos DB, on August 30, 2020
- Legacy media encoders are being retired on November 30, 2019
- Reserved Capacity for Azure SQL Data Warehouse Now Available in Additional 18 Regions
- Azure Blueprints—NIST SP 800-53 R4 blueprint release is now live
- Diagnostic log collection is now generally available for Azure Stack
- Azure Stack integration with Azure Government Secret cloud
- Retail solution patterns for hybrid applications
- M-series virtual machines (VMs) are now generally available in the France Central region
- Connect to your virtual machine (VM) through a web browser
- Azure Lab Services has an updated UI experience for students
- Azure SQL Database—Instance pools are now in preview
- Cross-region read replicas in Azure Database for PostgreSQL are now available
- Cross-region read replicas in Azure Database for MySQL are now available
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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.
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