April 2021

Azure Serverless Monthly

Your Serverless digest!

Azure Serverless Monthly is a quick read version that includes all the latest Microsoft Azure Serverless Updates like blog articles, podcasts and videos from Microsoft Azure and the rich ecosystem built around this community.

It is aimed at Developer, Architect working in your Enterprise Application Integration projects involving Azure Serverless components trying to keep on top of the latest Azure serverless developments.

Updated App Service Authentication portal experience is now generally available

Posted on 1 April, 2021

The new Authentication portal experience for App Service and Azure Functions, improving usability, initial setup, and increased security, is now available. Read More

General availability: Azure Blob storage supports objects up to 200 TB in size

Posted on 12 April, 2021

When moving from on premises, you no longer need to split your large files into separate parts to store and process in the cloud. Supporting a single object size up to 200TB removes one complexity when using Azure Storage. Read More

General availability: Lustre® HSM tools now available to import from or export to Azure Storage.

Posted on 12 April, 2021

New tooling available for integrating Lustre file systems with an Azure storage account. Read More

Azure API Management support for Availability Zones now generally available

Posted on 14 April, 2021

Improve the resiliency of your API Management services with Availability Zones. Read More

Reduce dataflow execution time with cluster reuse public preview in Azure Data Factory

Posted on 14 April, 2021

Azure Data Factory (ADF) has released a “quick re-use” option as public preview to the Azure Integration Runtime TTL to reduce data flow execution to from 2 mins to under 20 seconds. Read More

Azure Data Factory announces Data Flow general availability in two new Azure regions

Posted on 20 April, 2021

Azure Data Factory has released Mapping Data Flows for 2 new Azure regions: US Virgina Gov & US Arizona Gov. Read More

Azure SQL—public preview updates for April 2021

Posted on 28 April, 2021

Public preview enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in April 2021. Read More

Azure Event Grid for Azure Cache for Redis now in general availability

Posted on 28 April, 2021

Azure Cache for Redis integration with Azure Event Grid allows service manage routing of Redis events like patching, scaling, and import/export (RDB) to your event handler. Read More

Community Content

Here's a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted by community enthusiast over the last month.

1. Custom Bindings for Azure Functions
   By Emanuel Palm
2. Single Transaction for multiple DB Operations in Azure Cosmos DB
   By Rupesh Tiwari
3. How to build an AI web app from scratch to translate languages & deploy it to Azure App services
   By Amit Tomar
4. How to chain Azure Functions
   By Ricardo Mendes
5. Introducing all new Turbo360 (Formerly Serverless360) in preview
   By Arunkumar Kumaresan
6. Getting Started with Azure Functions Tutorial [Example-Driven Guide]
   By Jeff Brown
7. Logic Apps: Async processing pattern
   By Pedro Almeida
8. A fish out of water: Azure Storage Emulator Could not find a LocalDB Installation
   By Sandro Pereira
9. Azure Data Factory vs SSIS
   By David Alzamendi
10. Deploy Containerized Web App to Microsoft Azure | Upload/Download files of Azure Storage Account
    By Shivappa
11. Sneaking into Azure Cosmos DB
    By Sewvandi Promodya Wickramasinghe
12. Using Logic App to send multiple attachments from Azure Storage Account
    By Rayis Imayev
13. Improve your Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK initialization
    By Matias
14. Searching Azure Blob Storage using Blob Index
    By Pieter van der Westhuizen
15. Logic Apps: CSV Alphabetic sorting
    By Pedro Almeida
16. Creating Azure Functions University, an opensource educational project
    By Mark Duiker