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Od: "Azure Weekly" <AzureWeekly@endjin.com>
Datum: 30. července 2017 19:00:00 SELČ
Předmět: Azure Weekly #135 - 30th July 2017
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Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #135
Welcome to the lastest edition of Azure Weekly.
There's only one bit of news this week that matters; The announcement of Azure Container Instances, otherwise known as Containers as a Service. Yes, that's right Containers as PaaS. Containers are one of the hottest technologies at the moment (next to AI), but I've heard a number of people talk about migrating from PaaS to Containers, which really just sounds like wanting to play with the latest bit of shiny technology, rather than value based decision making. It got to the point that I wrote a post last week called "What value do Containers add in a PaaS centric world", and was just about to publish, when Azure Container Instances was announced. That post now needs a re-write!
Over the last couple of years, while helping clients migrate to Azure, we've had a number of workloads that don't map across to the existing services. These are generally .exe or Windows Services that run business or processing logic. They don't need to scale, or to be highly resilient. Worker Roles are overkill. VMs are painful to deploy to automatically and need to be managed. Service Fabric is overkill. The apps often end up being re-written to be hosted inside a WebJob or an Azure Function. I've often said I just want to be able to define the runtime characteristics of the .exe in terms of X amount of CPU and Y amount of memory and that's it. Now with Azure Container Instances we have that as an option (Windows Container support coming soon). There's a great demo by Mark Whitby on his YouTube Channel.
In other news, Kelly Anderson covers Amping up your disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery and Alice Rison explains how Microsoft Azure leads the industry in ISO certifications.
Mary Wahl talks about Training a neural network to play Hangman without a dictionary, and Jenny Jiang shares the HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse June updates, .
Josh Caplan covers Importing Power BI Desktop files into Azure Analysis Services and Christian Wade discusses Model comparison and merging for Azure Analysis Services.
If you have any content you'd like to contribute to the newsletter, please tweet @AzureWeekly or ping an email to AzureWeekly@endjin.com.
Compute
Covering: Virtual Machines, Virtual Machine Scale Sets, Functions, Batch, Service Fabric, Cloud Services
On MSDN, Jomit Vaghela (@jomit) blogs about Building Blockchain DApp's on Service Fabric.
Lee Stott (@lee_stott) looks at Running a simulation on 20 low priority Azure VMs for a cost of $0.02.
On the Azure blog, Thomas Delteil explains how to Go serverless with R Scripts on Azure Function.
Andy Thomas talks about Calling Linux Custom Script Extensions from PowerShell.
On the Brisbane Cloud User Group blog, Aaron Whittaker (@aaronw2003) shows you how to Make your Azure Virtual Machines go faster.
James van Den Berg blogs about the Microsoft Azure DataScience VM on Windows Server 2016 in the Cloud.
Sameera Perera (@sameera_man) writes about Just in Time VM Access.
Networking
Covering: Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute, Network Watcher
- No content this week
Storage
Covering: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage, Data Lake Store, StorSimple, Backup
On the MSSQL Tips site, John Miner writes about Long Term Storage for Azure SQL Database Backups.
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) blogs about Azure Data Lake and Replication mechanism crossing Azure Regions.
Web & Mobile
Covering: App Service, Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Content Delivery Network, Media Services, Azure Search
On MSDN, Jeremy Brooks talks about Networking Related Commands for Azure App Services.
David Farkas walks through Using Eclipse and Java to build and host a web app on Azure.
MK Sunitha shares an FAQ on App Service Certificates.
On the .NET Curry blog, Vikram Pendse (@VikramPendse) writes about Best Practices for Azure based applications and Workloads.
On the Azure blog, Christina Compy (@ccompy) shares a App Service Environment v2 release announcement.
Also on the Azure blog, Daria Grigoriu blogs about the Azure App Service Premium V2 in Public Preview.
Sunitha Muthukrishna (@mksuni) shares the preview of App Service domain.
Containers
Covering: Container Service, Container Registry
On the Redmond magazine site, Jeffrey Schwartz (@JeffreySchwartz) writes about Azure Container Instances Taking VMs Out of the Mix and reveals Microsoft Readies Simplified and Rapid Container Deployment Service in Azure.
On the Azure blog, Lior Kamrat talks about Deploying DC/OS with the Azure Container Service.
On MSDN, Steve Lasker (@SteveLasker) writes about New Azure Container Registry SKUs.
James van Den Berg invites you to Join the Community Group Containers in the Cloud.
Databases
Covering: SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server Stretch Database, Azure Cosmos DB, Table storage, Redis Cache, Data Factory
On the Database Journal site, Anoop Kumar shares an Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB.
On the Azure blog, Shivani Gupta explains how to Enhance Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance with new monitoring functionality for Columnstore.
Stephane Frechette (@sfrechette) covers Installing TimescaleDB on Azure.
Data + Analytics
Covering: HDInsight, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, Azure Bot Service, Data Lake Analytics, Power BI Embedded, Data Catalog
Chris Webb (@Technitrain) walks through Creating Animated Reports In Power BI With The Drilldown Player Custom Visual.
On the Kloud blog, Qazi Mobeen explains how to Create reports using a Power BI Gateway.
On the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) discusses Model comparison and merging for Azure Analysis Services.
Jenny Jiang shares the HDInsight tools for IntelliJ & Eclipse June updates.
On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) covers Importing Power BI Desktop files into Azure Analysis Services.
Devin Knight (@knight_devin) brings you a Power BI Custom Visuals Class on Power KPI.
Sameera Perera (@sameera_man) walks through Getting Started with the Azure Bot Service: Part 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Simon J.K. Pedersen blogs about Azure Functions Shortcode Analytics.
AI + Cognitive Services
Covering: Computer Vision API, Face API, Bing Web Search API, Customised speech service, Custom Vision Service, Language Understanding Intelligent Service, Bing Custom Search
On the Azure blog, Mary Wahl talks about Training a neural network to play Hangman without a dictionary.
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, Time Series Insights
- No content this week
Enterprise Integration
Covering: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, BizTalk Services
On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) asks if Your Serverless Application is Testable for Azure Logic Apps.
On MSDN, David Burg covers Using the Google OAuth 2.0 authorization server in Azure API Management.
On codeit blog, Toon Vanhoutte talks about Logic Apps failing to parse ServiceBus messages from ASA.
Security + Identity
Covering: Security Center, Azure Active Directory for developers, Key Vault, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Multi-Factor Authentication
On the Kloud blog, David Lee blogs about Windows 10 Domain Join + AAD and MFA Trusted IPs.
On the Catapult Systems blog, Larry Swonke talks about how Azure Stack changes the Cloud Game.
On MSDN, Matt Usher (@two_under) talks about Adding AD Users and Security Groups to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
On the Perficient blog, Jane Louis talks about Identity Management in Office 365.
Stephanus Schulte (@StephanusSch) discusses Authentication against Azure AD and Email address vs User Principle Name.
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, HockeyApp, Developer tools and SDKs, Xamarin, Storage Explorer
Clemens Reijnen (@ClemensReijnen) shares a Small tip for Win10 Ubuntu and accessing GIT local repo with Visual Studio Code.
Monitoring + Management
Covering: Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Automation, Site Recovery, Scheduler
On the Azure blog, Alice Rison explains how Microsoft Azure leads the industry in ISO certifications.
Kelly Anderson covers Amping up your disaster recovery with Azure Site Recovery.
On the Perficient blog, Jim Reid discusses Azure ARM NSGs and Windows Firewall Issues.
Useful Links
- Endjin's Azure Technology Selector - a flowchart which guides you through the process of chosing the best Azure service for your needs.
- Cloud Comparison Poster - a free poster from endjin, comparing the three major cloud platforms - Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform
- Cloud Migration Process - a free poster from endjin, outlining our process for cloud adoption
- Cloud Adoption: Risk & Mitigations - The Swiss Cheese Model - a free poster from endjin & Hymans Robertson outlining the risk and mitigations of adopting public cloud.
- Embracing Disruption: Financial Services & the Microsoft Cloud - a free ebooklet from endjin describing how companies in FS can take advantage of Azure.
- Microsoft's What is Azure poster - a visual overview of Azure's services and features.
- Microsoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure - a free ebook from Microsoft Press, by Michael S. Collier and Robin E. Shahan.
- Data Science in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and R - a free ebook on Azure Machine Learning, by Stephen F. Elston.
- Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure - a whitepaper that describes the various mechanism you can you can leverage for managing sensitive data in the Azure platform.
- A-Z of the Azure ecosystem - a slide deck outlining current Azure services.
- Azure Architecture Center - guidance from the Patterns & Practices team covering API Design, API implementation, Autoscaling, Background jobs, CDN, Caching, Data partitioning, Monitoring and diagnostics, Retry, Scalability and availability.
- Azure Architect's Reference - if you are an architect responsible for building an application on Azure, or are trying to figure out how you could migrate an application and need to dig deep into the workload, cost, security, capacity, availability, deployment and operational modelling this invaluable resource should be your first stop. An open source project, with contributions from several experienced architects, it gathers data from many different references into a single, useful guide that is constantly updated by the community.
- Azure Table Storage Design Guide - a guide from the storage team.
- Azure infrastructure services implementation guidelines - key design and implementation guidelines for deploying an IT workload in Azure infrastructure services.
- Azure Speed Test - a simple web tool that measures the latency between you and Azure Datacenters to suggest which might be fastest for you location.
- Azure Websites Cheatsheet - everything you need to know about configuring & managing Azure Websites on a single page.
- SQL Database Migration Wizard - a very useful tool for migrating existing SQL databases to SQL Azure; will fix some common conversion errors automatically.
- Azure SQL DTU Calculator - a tool to help you determine the number of DTUs for your existing SQL Server database(s) as well as a recommendation of the minimum performance level and service tier that you need before you migrate to Azure SQL Database.
- Microsoft Azure Symbol/Icon Set - a set of Visio and PowerPoint shapes for use in architecture diagrams / presentations.
- Service Bus Explorer - a free and open source tool for managing and exploring Azure Service Bus(including Event Hubs).
- Best practices for designing Azure Resource Manager Templates - guidance based on the whitepaper 'World Class ARM Templates Considerations and Proven Practices'.
- Microsoft Cloud Networking for Enterprise Architects - a downloadable guide to Azure networking, covering topics such as cloud migration and networking for PaaS and SaaS services
- Cyber Security Demystified - a free ebook from Microsoft describing how to keep your organisation safe.
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