From: Azure Weekly [mailto:AzureWeekly@endjin.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 6, 2017 7:00 PM
To: Dvořák Daniel <Daniel.Dvorak@autocont.cz>
Subject: Azure Weekly #136 - 6th August 2017
Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #136
Welcome to the latest issues of the Azure Weekly Newsletter.
Raman Sharma explains how to Build apps faster with Azure Serverless.
Alice Rison talks about Microsoft Azure Enabling Secure Rendering with services and certs at SIGGRAPH 2017, and Shilpi Gautam announces the General Availability of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers.
Arsen Vladimirskiy talks about Teradata Bolstering Analytics and Database capabilities for Azure, while Saveen Reddy writes about Online training for Azure Data Lake.
And Josh Caplan reveals the August updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer.
A nice overview of what "cloud first" actually means in Mapping Strategy to Microsoft Azure Services
If you're in the UK Microsoft are running an Azure roadshow in Reading, London, Edinburgh, Birmingham & Manchester, also if you're in the UK the First Hyperscale CSP with Graphic-Intensive Supportable VMs in UK
Azure the Azure Batch team make it easier to run workloads on the platform they announced thepublic preview of Azure Batch Rendering and a new cross platform tool called BatchLabs.
Finally, an interesting feature of CosmosDB has been exposed: introducing the Azure CosmosDB Change Feed Processor Library
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
· David McGhee (@drmcghee) discusses Mapping Strategy to Microsoft Azure Services.
· On TechNet, Micah McKittrick covers Troubleshooting a Broken Azure VM using Nested Virtualization in Managed Disk, RDFE and ARM.
· Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) talks about Using Azure Custom Script Extension to execute scripts on Azure VMs.
· On the Microsoft + Open Source site, Jose Miguel Parrella tells you Three reasons to deploy Red Hat workloads to the Azure cloud.
· On the Azure blog, Andres Juarez announces that Microsoft Azure's G/GS/LS/H/N-series is now available in UK South.
· Dave Fellows announces the public preview of Azure Batch Rendering.
· Michael S. Collier (@MichaelCollier) explains How to Setup NVIDIA Driver on NV-Series Azure VM.
Networking
Covering: Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute, Network Watcher
· John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) asks if an Azure VM can be moved between virtual networks.
Storage
Covering: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage, Data Lake Store, StorSimple, Backup
· Also on TechNet, Rachel Mason writes about a New option to learn about Azure Site Recovery & Backup that's now available on-demand or via a live webcast.
· On the Azure blog, Saveen Reddy (@saveenr) writes about Online training for Azure Data Lake.
Web & Mobile
Covering: App Service, Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Content Delivery Network, Media Services, Azure Search
· On MSDN, Finbar Ryan (@FinVamp1) writes about ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core Application Restarts on the Azure App Service.
· Sunitha Muthukrishna explains how to Assign an App Service domain to a Azure VM or Azure Storage.
· Yi Wang covers the HTTP to HTTPS redirect for WordPress on Azure Web Apps on Linux.
· On the Azure blog, Raman Sharma explains how to Build apps faster with Azure Serverless.
Containers
Covering: Container Service, Container Registry
· On MSDN, David Gristwood discusses Getting up and going with Windows Containers on Microsoft Azure.
· William Eastbury looks into Getting Started with Windows Containers and Docker.
· On the Azure blog, Lior Kamrat covers Deploying DC/OS with Azure Container Service.
· On Opsgility, John Adams explains How Azure Container Instances completes the PaaS hosting spectrum at last.
· On the Kloud blog, Hector Maldonado talks about SSL Tunneling with socat in Docker to safely access Azure Redis on port 6379.
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 Azure blog, Jason Anderson walks through Migrating a Web App from ClearDB to Azure Database for MySQL.
· Judy Hanwen Shen Introduces the Azure CosmosDB Change Feed Processor Library.
· On MSDN, Robin Lester talks about SQL Server to Azure SQL Database data movement options and considerations with changing schemas and triggered refreshes.
Data + Analytics
Covering: HDInsight, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, Azure Bot Service, Data Lake Analytics, Power BI Embedded, Data Catalog
· On the Kloud blog, Qazi Mobeen writes about Sharing a report using a Power BI app.
· On the Azure blog, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) reveals the August updates to the Azure Analysis Services web designer.
· Marcel Zehner discusses OMS welcoming the new Azure Analytics Query Language.
· On the Azure blog, Arsen Vladimirskiy (@ArsenVlad) talks about Teradata Bolstering Analytics and Database capabilities for Azure.
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
- No content this week
Internet of Things
Covering: IoT Hub, IoT Edge, Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Notification Hubs, Time Series Insights
· On TechNet, Kevin Martins shares somes IoT Projects for Anyone, including Power BI Streaming Dataset Setup, Collecting and Streaming Data with Raspbian Operating System and Designing IoT Microsoft Power BI Dashboard.
Enterprise Integration
Covering: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, BizTalk Services
- No content this week
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 TechNet, Beatris A. Mendez Gandica shares details on Azure AD August 2017 webinars.
· Larry Zhang (L.) blogs about the Azure Stack WAP Connector (Part 1).
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, HockeyApp, Developer tools and SDKs, Xamarin, Storage Explorer
· Buck Hodges (@tfsbuck) Highlights Visual Studio Team Services Widget Catalog
Monitoring + Management
Covering: Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Automation, Site Recovery, Scheduler
· On the Azure blog, Shilpi Gautam announces the General Availability of Consumption and Charge APIs for Enterprise Azure customers.
· On TechNet, Neil Bird covers Azure Resource Manager and Automating Installation of VM Extensions using PowerShell and JSON.
· Sam Cogan (@samcogan) writes about Dynamic ARM Templates with Inline Logic Operators.
· Stefan Stranger (@sstranger) blogs about Testing Azure Resource Manager template functions.
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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