Azure Weekly Newsletter Issue #138
Welcome to the latest edition of the Azure Weekly Newsletter.
Two big announcements this week, firstly a big step forward in Serverless (or as I like to think of it as PaaS with the right commercial model), Corey Sanders introduces Azure Event Grid – an event service for modern applications, and secondly he announces investing deeply in Terraform on Azure.
Sajva Halverson explains How Azure Security Center aids in detecting good applications being used maliciously. Cheng Wei goes into why your team needs an Azure Stack Operator, while Andrew Shannon covers Azure Time Series Insights API, Reference Data, Ingress, and Azure Portal Updates.
Pranav Rastogi looks at Cloud migration and backup for your big data applications on Azure HDInsight, and Sunil Kamath announces Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL availability in India.
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 TechNet, Shannon Gowen talks about Nested Virtualization in Azure.
On the Azure blog, Larry Brader talks about Reference Architecture for SAP NetWeaver and SAP HANA on Azure and Reference Architecture for a high availability SharePoint Server 2016 farm in Azure.
On MSDN, Thomas W Shinder (@tshinder) describes Disabling Server Message Block Version 1 in Azure
Networking
Covering: Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, VPN Gateway, Azure DNS, Content Delivery Network, Traffic Manager, ExpressRoute, Network Watcher
On MSDN, James Walters discusses Azure Government ExpressRoute.
Robert Smit (@Clustermvp) shares a Step by Step Azure Network watcher Guide.
Storage
Covering: Blob storage, Queue storage, File storage, Disk storage, Data Lake Store, StorSimple, Backup
On the Kloud blog, Justin Yoo (@justinchronicle) covers the Order to Take Storage Account Settings on Azure WebJobs.
On MSDN, Patrick El-Azem (@netgain) shares A walk-through of managing Azure Data Lake Store in R.
Also on the Azure blog, Sirius Kuttiyan talks about Planning Backup and Disaster Recovery for Azure IaaS Disks.
Web & Mobile
Covering: App Service, Web apps, Mobile apps, API apps, Content Delivery Network, Media Services, Azure Search
On the Xamarin blog, James Montemagno writes about Native Android Facebook Authentication with the Azure App Service.
On MSDN, Ben Perkins (@csharpguitar) asks Where did I configure that Azure App Service extension, and where is this charge coming from?
Gabe Shapiro explains how to Automatically stop and start a site during Git- / Kudu-based deployment in Azure App Service and how to Redirect HTTP to HTTPS when using ASP.NET Core in Web App on Linux.
On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) introduces Azure Event Grid, an event service for modern applications.
Containers
Covering: Container Service, Container Registry
Radu Vunvulea (@RaduVunvulea) wonders if if .NET Core or .NET Framework are better together with Docker and Containers on Azure.
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, Ron Ortloff explains that Replicated tables are now in preview for Azure SQL Data Warehouse.
Also on the Azure blog, Sunil Kamath announces Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL availability in India.
Data + Analytics
Covering: HDInsight, Machine Learning, Stream Analytics, Azure Bot Service, Data Lake Analytics, Power BI Embedded, Data Catalog
On MSDN, Xiaoyong Zhu talks about Running XGBoost on Azure HDInsight.
On the Azure blog, Pranav Rastogi (@rustd) covers Cloud migration and backup for your big data applications on Azure HDInsight.
Bret Grinslade (@bretgr) writes about On-premises data gateway support for Azure Analysis Services.
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 MSDN, Sascha Corti (@TechPreacher) invities you to Join the Free Intel & Microsoft IoT Hands-On Lab on September 19.
On the Azure blog, Andrew Shannon covers Azure Time Series Insights API, Reference Data, Ingress, and Azure Portal Updates.
On MSDN, David Gristwood blogs about Microsoft Azure helping pet technology startup PitPat.
Enterprise Integration
Covering: Logic Apps, Service Bus, API Management, BizTalk Services
On the Azure blog, Justin Conway reveals that Azure Service Bus Java Client is Generally Available and Azure Service Bus .NET Standard Client is Generally Available.
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, Darren Robinson (@darrenjrobinson) covers Creating an AzureAD WebApp using PowerShell to leverage Certificate Based Authentication.
On the Azure blog, Cheng Wei goes into Why your team needs an Azure Stack Operator.
Sajva Halverson explains How Azure Security Center aids in detecting good applications being used maliciously.
Sam Cogan (@samcogan) blogs about Azure AD Connect and The Trouble With Expired Passwords.
Developer Tools
Covering: Visual Studio Team Services, Azure DevTest Labs, HockeyApp, Developer tools and SDKs, Xamarin, Storage Explorer
On MSDN, Ali Mazaheri writes about why Visual Studio, Docker & Azure Container Instances are better together.
Donna Malayeri (@lindydonna) unveils Azure Functions Tools have been released for Visual Studio 2017.
On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) talks about Managing your resources with Azure Cloud Shell.
Monitoring + Management
Covering: Microsoft Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Automation, Site Recovery, Scheduler
On the Azure blog, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) discusses Investing deeply in Terraform on Azure.
Also on TechNet, Tsuyoshi Ushio (@sandayuu) talks about Enabling Allow access to Azure service by Terraform.
On MSDN, Rob Vettor makes sense of Vague PowerShell Errors.
On the codeit blog, Toon Vanhoutte explains how to Avoid accidental removal of Azure resources.
On TechNet, Paulo Marques talks about Azure Image Management Automation.
Also on TechNet, the Scripting Guys (@ScriptingGuys) write about New enhancements in Azure Log Analytics.
Bill Zack (@WilliamHZack) asks What is your Azure Maturity Level?
The Application Insights Service Team talk about A Final Update to Application Insights Planned Maintenance on 08/10.
Tom Keane announces that Microsoft Azure is expanding with two new regions for Australia.
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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