June 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.

Azure Stack IaaS – part eight

By David Armour | on 1 May, 2019

In this part, Azure team covers on the automation options in your Cloud IaaS toolkit. [Read More…]

Partnering with the community to make Kubernetes easier

By Brendan Burns | on 6 May, 2019

Azure team is working closely with the community on open source projects that make Kubernetes easier for everyone, wherever they run it. [Read More…]

Key improvements to the Azure portal user experience

By Leon Welicki | on 7 May, 2019

We’re constantly working on user experience improvements in the Azure portal. Our goal is to offer you a productive and easy-to-use platform, so you can build, manage, and monitor your service from a single pane of glass. We’d like to share a few of the exciting updates that improve the user experience. [Read More…]

Azure App Service update: Free Linux Tier, Python and Java support, and more

By Stefan Schackow | on 7 May, 2019

Web applications continue to be at the center of business-critical applications for many Azure App Service customers, whether it’s helping migrate existing applications into the cloud or innovate by adding new functionality to delight end-users. [Read More…]

Advancing the developer experience for serverless apps with Azure Functions

By Eduardo Laureano | on 7 May, 2019

Azure Functions constantly innovates so that you can achieve more with serverless applications, enabling developers to overcome common serverless challenges through a productive, event-driven programming model. [Read More…]

What’s new in Azure Monitor

By Shiva Sivakumar | on 7 May, 2019

Azure Monitor is constantly evolving to discover new insights and reduce potential issues with applications. Over last few months, individual capabilities such as Application Insights and Azure Monitor logs have come together to provide a seamless and integrated Azure Monitor experience. [Read More…]

Planet scale operational analytics and AI with Azure Cosmos DB

By Rimma Nehme | on 7 May, 2019

You can now run globally distributed, low latency operational analytics and AI on transactional data stored within your Cosmos databases. [Read More…]

A Cosmonaut’s guide to the latest Azure Cosmos DB announcements

By Rimma Nehme | on 14 May, 2019

At Microsoft Build 2019 we announced exciting new capabilities, including the introduction of real-time operational analytics using new built in support for Apache Spark and a new Jupyter notebook experience for all Azure Cosmos DB APIs. We believe these capabilities will help our customers easily build globally distributed apps at Cosmos scale. [Read More…]

Microsoft 365 boosts usage analytics with Azure Cosmos DB

By Parul Matah | on 16 May, 2019

This is a three-part blog post series about how organizations are using Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making for them. Explore the challenges that led the Microsoft 365 usage analytics team to take action. [Read More…]

Microsoft 365 boosts usage analytics with Azure Cosmos DB – Part 2

By Parul Matah | on 16 May, 2019

This post covers the outcomes resulting from the efforts explained in the previous part blogs. [Read More…]

Announcing the preview of Windows Server containers support in Azure Kubernetes Service

By Taylor Brown | on 17 May, 2019

Running Windows Server containers in AKS (preview) means you can keep taking advantage of many existing Azure services and features that are helping make Kubernetes application development and management much easier. [Read More…]

Optimize price-performance with compute auto-scaling in Azure SQL Database Serverless

By Morgan Oslake | on 17 May, 2019

SQL Database serverless automatically scales compute for single databases based on workload demand and bills for compute used per second. Serverless contrasts with the provisioned compute tier in SQL Database which allocates a fixed amount of compute resources for a fixed price and is billed per hour. [Read more…]

Transforming Azure Monitor Logs for DevOps, granular access control, and improved Azure integration

By Meir Mendelovich | on 23 May, 2019

Workspaces now assume the role of a manageable container, allowing administrators to better govern their environments. Users are now empowered to view logs in their natural Azure context, helping them to leverage the power of logs in their day-to-day work. [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. You Don’t know Web Job and Azure Function in Depth! Part 1 by Saillesh Pawar
2. The Dev-Ops way to avoid cold starts of your Azure Functions! by Toon Vanhoutte
3. Securing calls to Logic Apps using Logic Apps by Mikael Sand
4. Azure Logic Apps Live- May 2019 by Mohan Nagaraj
5. Creating a processing pipeline with Azure Functions and AIS by Wagner Silveria
6. Azure Functions Live- May 2019 by Mohan Nagaraj
7. Top 20 announcements on Serverless computing at Build 2019 by Surya Venkatasubramanian
8. SAP Connector update, Gateway update release, SNC support, Strong/Safe Type by David Burg
9. Troubleshooting SAP configuration for Azure Logic App SAP trigger by David Burg
10. Large request upcoming support for Azure Logic App SAP Connector by Davis Burg
11. Workarounds needed to use the Excel Connector in Microsoft Flow by John Lui
12. One Flow to handle them all – Part 2 figuring out the chances by John Lui
13. ARM Template for provisioning an Azure Function App with a Key Vault by Mahindra Morar
14. Highlights from Build 2019 by Jan de Vries
15. Azure Event Hubs, Kafka and Dependency Injection in Azure Functions by David Barkol
16. Analyzing an uploaded image to a blob using Azure Cognitive Services & saving analysis results to Cosmos DB by Rami Chalhoub
17. Analyzing transactions in real-time with Event Hubs and Stream Analytics by Alessandro Moura
18. Processing a single Azure Cosmos DB Document at a time with Azure Functions by Jason Roberts
19. How to notify clients of Cosmos DB changes with Azure SignalR and Azure Functions by Jason Roberts
20. Writing Azure Cosmos DB data from Azure Functions by Jason Roberts
21. Reading Azure Cosmos DB data in Azure Functions by Jason Roberts
22. Getting started with Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions by Jason Roberts
23. Using Azure Application Insights with Spring Boot by Julien dubois
24. Creating Event-based workflows with Azure Durable Functions by Aaron Powell
25. This is how to easily deploy a static site to Azure by Burke Holland
26. Ordered queue processing in Azure Functions with Sessions by Jeff Hollan
27. Using Entity Framework with Azure Functions by Jeff Hollan