November 2021

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.

New indexing metrics for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability

Posted on 2 November, 2021

Identify which indexes your queries utilized and then view the recommended new indexes in Azure Cosmos DB. Read More

Provisioned throughput spending limit for Azure Cosmos DB in general availability

Posted on 2 November, 2021

You can now set a hard limit on the total throughput provisioned across a single account in Azure Cosmos DB. Read More

Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector in public preview

Posted on 2 November, 2021

Use the new built-in Azure Cosmos DB Logic Apps Standard Connector with a trigger for the change feed and several actions to enable high throughput data processing with low latency. Read More

Azure Service Bus large message support reaches general availability

Posted on 2 November, 2021

This new capability removes need for workarounds and enables migration of legacy payloads to Azure. Read More

Public preview: GraphQL passthrough support in Azure API Management

Posted on 2 November, 2021

GraphQL is increasingly seen as more efficient, flexible, and powerful way of working with APIs, as they have tremendous benefits such as faster performance, longer API call limit threshold, etc. Read More

General availability: API Management and Event Grid Integration

Posted on 2 November, 2021

General availability of Azure API Management to publish events in Event Grid. Read More

Generally available: Azure Functions runtime 4.0

Posted on 8 November, 2021

Version 4.0 of the Azure Functions runtime supports .NET 6. It also supports Node.js, Python, Java, PowerShell, and other languages using custom handlers. Read More

SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage - now in public preview

Posted on 17 November, 2021

Azure Blob Storage is the only storage platform that supports SFTP over object storage natively in a serverless fashion, enabling you leverage object storage economics and features with legacy workloads that use SFTP. Read More

Public preview: Azure SQL bindings for Azure Functions

Posted on 17 November, 2021

You can connect Azure SQL to Azure Functions more easily with input and output bindings, now available in public preview. Read More

Public preview: Node.js 16 in Azure Functions

Posted on 22 November, 2021

Node.js 16.x is the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release of the Node.js runtime and includes features such as a new version of the V8 JavaScript engine. 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. Debugging Azure Static Web Apps in VS Code
   By Alex Weininger
2. Deployment pipeline of Azure Service Bus with Managed Identity authentication
   By Kohei Kawata
3. Distributed tracing and correlation through Service Bus messaging
   By Srihari Senthil
4. Configuring Azure Blob Storage
   By Rupesh Tiwari
5. Leveraging Logic Apps to prevent over-provisioning owner access to subscriptions
   By Stefano d'Antonio
6. Azure Service Bus Premium: Large Message Support Generally Available
   By Clemens Vasters
7. Use Azure Data Factory to turn hierarchical structures into relational data
   By Mark Kromer
8. Azure App Service automatic scaling
   By Gaurav Seth
9. Run any process anywhere in 3 easy steps with SSIS in Azure Data Factory
   By Sandy Winarko
10. Automated Testing with Logic Apps Standard
    By Henry Liu
11. Advanced Service Bus Dead lettering with BAM
    By Michael Stephenson
12. Power Automate Best practices, Tips and Tricks: #3 Add comments
    By Sandro Pereira
13. How to copy all the Azure Storage Blobs from a Container to the other container by C#.NET
    By Ali Kolahdoozan
14. Logic Apps: CI/CD Part 3- Building your Azure Pipeline
    By Pedro Almeida
15. How to monitor the status of Azure API Connections (Part I)
    By Sandro Pereira