This week in Azure – January 25, 2016
Platform updates
Tuesday
- Adrian Hall announced the availability Beta Apache Cordova plugin for Azure App Service Mobile Apps which gives you API access to data, push registration and authentication for you mobile backend - no matter if it's written in .NET or Node.js
- Berni Torres Garayar announced the availability of Azure Search Traffic Analytics which helps you discover how your search service is being used and gain insights into users and their behaviors
- Beckylin Orooji announced that Application Insights will automatically tell you about performance of your AJAX calls
- Microsoft Philanthropies announced that it will donate $1 billion in cloud computer resources to serve the public good
Wednesday
- Anton Fritz shared some information about a new feature in Application Insights - Proactive Detection which automatically (though machine learning) detect abnormal patterns in Application Insights telemetry and notify you about them
- Janusz Lembicz shared information on how to use custom analyzers in Azure Search which can help you to take full control of how your documents are broken into searchable terms
Thursday
- Brady Gaster announced the 2.8.2 .NET SDK for Azure which has some user experience improvements, under the hood improvements which make all of this just work better and improvements in exporting Azure Resource Manager templates
- Mingfei Yan announced update to the "classic" portal which improves encoding speed, format support and stability and some name changes of Encoding Reserved Units to reduce the confusion customers had
Friday
- We announced public preview for Automation Graphical Authoring SDK which helps custom applications to create runbook files and consume runbook files
- We announced public preview for Azure App Service cloning now available between regions . App cloning is currently only supported for premium tier app service plans
- We announced updates to Azure support portal (Node.JS parser, AutoHeal UX for Execution Delay settings and Crash diagnostics)
- We presented a new way to deploy VSTS in the Azure portal
- We announced New T-SQL programmability features in Azure SQL Database . New programmability features that are implemented in SQL Server 2016 are also available in Azure SQL Database
- We announced MPI and offline node support in Azure Batch
From Community
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- Adventures in High Speed Networking on Azure from Age Of Ascent blog
- Python app on Azure Web Apps frequently restarts from Linux on Azure blog
- Microsoft Azure Concepts – Availability Sets from VMFocus blog
Customer Stories
- ZingHR (HR Management from Indie) implemented their software based on Azure for Kotak Mahindra Bank
- tritrue (Retail and Consumer Goods from Japan) laverages Azure's open source support for overseas expansion process
- SoloInsight (Discrete Manufacturing from the USA) moves their IoT platform to the next level
- Wijkracht (Social Services from Netherlands) did not want to create an IT department or have on-premises IT equipment
Events
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- Multiple dates and places – Microsoft Cloud Roadshow
- Multiple dates and places - Microsoft Azure Tour
- March 30 – BUILD 2016
- April 16th – Global Azure Bootcamp
Quote of the week
1995: Every object in your home has a clock & it is blinking 12:00 2025: Every object in your home has a IP address & the password is Admin
— mcc (@mcclure111) January 17, 2016
Tomek & Mirek