January 2019

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.

Microsoft Announcement and updates

Microsoft Azure team publishes various blogs, updates and product announcements. Here we compile all the serverless related content from Azure.Microsoft.com to help make it easier for you to view the articles you are interested in reading.

Announcing Azure API Management for serverless architectures

by Vladimir Vinogradsky | on 04 December 2018

Azure API Management is a fully managed service that enables customers to publish, secure, transform, maintain, and monitor APIs. Vladimir Vinogradsky discusses about the latest consumption tier essentially a variant of API Management designed and implemented around serverless principles. [Read More...]

Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 now in public preview

by Deborah Chen | on 04 December 2018

Starting December 2018 the version 3.0 of .NET SDK, now in public preview and open sourced on GitHub! [Read More...]

Azure Cosmos DB now supports Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

by Christopher Anderson | on 04 December 2018

Azure Cosmos DB supports Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) “allowedOrigins” header for core SQL API. You can configure this setting via the portal or ARM templates. [Read More...]

Bringing serverless to Azure Kubernetes Service

by Sean McKenna | on 04 December 2018

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now one of the fastest growing services in the history of Azure. Sean McKenna from the Azure Cloud Native Services announce a series of new capabilities and investments that further demonstrate this commitment to making Kubernetes easier. [Read More...]

Azure Functions gets better for Python and JavaScript developers

by Daria Grigoriu | on on 04 December 2018

Python support in Azure Functions is available in public preview, you can publish Python function apps to our new Linux Consumption plan for a serverless, pay-per-execution hosting option. [Read More...]

Microsoft Azure portal December 2018 update

by Peri Rocha | on 05 December 2018

This month update is to help improve the usability of creating and managing virtual machines in Azure, updates to Security Center, and an improved experience to control access to resources. [Read More...]

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 preview

by James Baker | on 06 December 2018

The Azure Storage team announced significant updates to the preview of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2. These updates will improve the user experience significantly. [Read More...]

An Azure Function orchestrates a real-time, serverless, big data pipeline

by Kate Baroni | on 10 December 2018

Use case scenario blog on detecting fraudulent bank transactions. A single Azure function is all it takes to fully implement an end-to-end, real-time, mission-critical data pipeline for a fraud detection scenario. [Read More...]

Azure Monitor for containers is now available

by Azure Monitor team | on 11 December 2018

Azure Monitor for containers, now generally available, monitors the health and performance of Kubernetes clusters hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). [Read More...]

Static websites on Azure Storage now generally available

by Sercan Guler | on 12 December 2018

The Azure Storage team announced the general availability of static websites on Azure Storage, which is now available in all public cloud regions. [Read More...]

Azure Functions now supported as a step in Azure Data Factory pipelines

by Gaurav Malhotra | on 13 December 2018

Azure Functions is now integrated with ADF, allowing you to run an Azure function as a step in your data factory pipelines. [Read More...]

The year in review: Hybrid applications for developers

by Ricardo Mendes | on 20 December 2018

This has been amazing for developers that design, develop, and maintain cloud-based apps. This blog goes a full circle to look at the technology landscape for hybrid applications in 2018.
[Read More...]

Azure API Management update

by Azure API Management team | on 21 December 2018

There is a new update to the Azure API services, it includes bug fixes, changes, and new features.
[Read More...]

Community Content

Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the last month.

1. Azure Logic Apps connected to SAP, and now what? by David Burg
2. Logic Apps or Durable Functions: Which workflow solution approach suits me best? by Steef-Jan Wiggers
3. Inserting lots of rows into SQL with a Logic App and a Stored Procedure by Micheal Stephenson
4. Why the new SAP connector for Logic Apps by David Burg
5. AS2, EDIFACT connectors updates for Azure Logic Apps by David Burg
6. Fix for Logic Apps Log Analytics B2B solution “Oops… Looks like we couldn’t get the data” by David Burg
7. Azure Integration Services Ask Me Anything – Dec 2018 by Mohan Nagaraj
8. Navigate directly to the Logic Apps run details by Toon Vanhoutte
9. Delete blobs in Azure Data Factory by leveraging MSI by Toon Vanhoutte
10. Send Messages to Google Storage with Azure Functions by Steef-Jan Wiggers
11. "Serverless" CQRS using Azure Event Grid and Durable Functions by Duncan Edwards Jones
12. Authenticate Azure DevOps against its own REST API by Toon Vanhoutte
13. How to Explain Messaging Patterns to your Grandmother by Dan Toomey
14. Azure Event Grid: The Evolution of an Event Broker in the Cloud by Steef-Jan Wiggers
15. Custom Connectors in Azure Logic Apps by Kent Weare
16. Layered Architecture with Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure Key Vault and Cosmos Graph Database by Abhishek
17. Azure Functions Live – December 2018 by Arunkumar Kumaresan
18. Answering the phone, functionally, again by David
19. Azure Logic Apps Live – December 2018 by Mohan Nagaraj
20. The business case for serverless by Zack Kanter
21. Auto Forwarding, a hidden gem of Service Bus by Sean Feldman
22. Managing Durable Functions Orchestration History by Mark Heath
23. Design Considerations for Webhooks by Toon Vanhoutte
24. Introducing the new Azure Service Bus transport for .NET Core by Sean Feldman
25. A Fairy Tale of F# and Durable Functions by Mikhail Shilkov