March 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 DevOps Projects supporting Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions

by Pulkit Agarwal | on 7 February, 2019

Azure DevOps Projects makes it is easy for you to set up a fully functional DevOps pipeline tailored to the development language and application platform you want to leverage. [Read More...]

Azure Stack IaaS – part one

by David Armour, Daniel Savage and Tiberiu Radu | on 11 February, 2019

If you are not quite ready for Platform-as-a-Service? The answers become more clear when they understand that Azure Stack at its core is an IaaS platform. [Read More...]

Benefits of using Azure API Management with microservices

by Mike Budzynski | on 12 February, 2019

Azure API Management has recently become available in a new pricing tier. With its billing per execution, the consumption tier is especially suited for microservice-based architectures and event-driven systems. [Read More...]

More reliable event-driven applications in Azure with an updated Event Grid

by Bahram Banisadr | on 19 February, 2019

Event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture is really interesting. The 5 features that are GA now, enables you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure. [Read More...]

Modernize alerting using Azure Resource Manager storage accounts

by Francis Yu | on 21 February, 2019

Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will reach retirement this coming June. If you have classic alert rules configured on classic storage accounts, you will need to upgrade your accounts to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) storage accounts before you migrate alert rules. [Read More...]

Announcing the general availability of Java support in Azure Functions

by Asavari Tayal | on 25 February, 2019

Azure Functions provides a productive programming model based on triggers and bindings for accelerated development and serverless hosting of event-driven applications. Azure Functions team announced the general availability of Java support in Azure Functions 2.0! [Read More...]

Improving the TypeScript support in Azure Functions

by Colby Tresness | on 25 February, 2019

With this set of changes to the Azure Functions Core Tools and the Azure Functions Extension for Visual Studio Code, Azure Functions now supports TypeScript out of the box! Included with these changes are a set of templates for TypeScript, type definitions, and npm scripts. [Read More...]

Azure Stack laaS – part two

by Tiberiu Radu and David Armour | on 26 February, 2019

Azure Stack at its core is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform, the right way to think about this first phase of the journey is as a lift and optimize process. [Read More...]

Announcing Azure Integration Service Environment for Logic Apps

Kevin Lam | on 26 February, 2019

Azure Integration Service Environment for Logic Apps is the new way to integrate with resources in your virtual network. [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. Logic Apps SQL trigger underlying mechanism to fire event on change by David Burg
2. Consuming Webhooks with Logic Apps by Toon Vanhoutte
3. Microsoft Expands the Availability of Azure Service Bus and Event Hubs by Steef-Jan Wiggers
4. Special characters in Logic Apps B2B partners identifier by David Burg
5. Writing Integration Tests for Azure Event Grid 2.0 - The Scalable Approach by Tom Kerkhove
6. String conversion in Logic Apps messes up floats? by Mikael Sand
7. Logic Apps AS2 Decode: MIC algorithm is required for signed MDN by David Burg
8. How we are using Microsoft Integration features and related Azure technologies to improve our processes by Sandro Pereira
9. How to Secure Frontend Code by Moving to Serverless Cloud by Tj VanToll
10. Migrating Azure Functions from v1 (.NET) to v2 (.NET Core/Standard) by Jeremy Likness
11. Right click publish quickly to Azure App Services with VS Code extensions and zipdeploy by Scott Hanselman
12. Event Grid Domain, Cosmos Graph Database, Azure Functions — And Scalable event routing for Graph Events by Abhishek Kumar
13. Hybrid Integration for the Enterprise with Azure Integration Services By Nadeem Ahamed
14. Logic Apps EDIFACT connector update to support padding interchange qualifier by David Burg
15. Azure Functions Live – Feb 2019 by Mohan Nagaraj
16. Comparison of Cold Starts in Serverless Functions across AWS, Azure, and GCP by Mikhail Silkov
17. Evergreen Serverless Performance Reviewsby Mikhail Silkov
18. Should I containerize my cloud app? by Mark Heath
19. Automate Cyber Security Processes using Azure Logic Apps and Microsoft Graph Security APIs by Kent Weare
20. Integration-playbook.io by Michael Stephenson