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Overview of Microsoft Azure platform updates for October-November

The news digest of the Microsoft Azure cloud platform contains key announcements and content for developers, IT professionals, and all professionals interested in cloud technologies and the Azure platform. Previous editions of the digest can always be found at the following link .



Announcements


Now you can test websites without creating an Azure account! - Without specifying a credit card, without creating an Azure account. All you need is a Microsoft Account.

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Preview: Azure Batch - a service for running task packages without setting up a cluster and task scheduler.
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Preview: Stream Analytics is an engine for processing information about events and receiving useful data in real time. There is integration with Event Hubs, which makes it possible to collect millions of events from millions of devices and process it right there.

Preview: Data Factory - a service for managing data sources - structured, unstructured, etc. You can connect SQL Server, Azure Database, Tables, Blobs, local SQL Server and create a workflow from this that will process data using Apache Hive and Pig or proprietary algorithm in C #. Video about the service.

Preview: Elastic Scale - a feature that makes it easy to scale an application data layer in the cloud. Based on sharding practices.

Preview: Apache Storm for Azure HDInsight - now you can handle real-time events with a platform for analytics. In HDInsight, you can also use the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2 (for migrating data from a local Hadoop to an HDInsight).

GA : WebJobs is the functionality with which you can run background tasks when using the WebSites service — you can download almost any executable algorithm and run it according to a trigger or on a schedule. GA also released WebJobs SDK, a framework for interacting with WebJobs.

GA : Event Hubs is a service with which you can collect millions of events from millions of devices. Conceptually speaking, a pub / sub queue that scales and stretches according to needs. Here you can listen to what this service is and how to use it.

GA : Public IP Addresses for Virtual Machines and Cloud Services

Azure SDK 2.5 - a large number of updates in the new version.

SSL v 3 on Azure WebSites is disabled . We read in more detail.

OpenStack Swift Object Storage for Windows Azure Pack - service from Microsoft partner - Outworx. Gives support for blobs in a private cloud running the Azure Pack.

VM Readiness Assessment tool is a utility for automatic inventory of local infrastructure and creating a report based on the inventory of what and how to migrate to Azure. Extremely useful.

Open Source News


In our news, Open Source has happened so much that it deserves a separate post.

.NET Server Core, cross-platform development, Visual Studio 2015 and other announcements of Microsoft Connect ()

Useful content


Best practices for using Azure Storage from Linux :
- Azure OS Disk usage
- Azure Data Disks
- Need More IOPS or Disk Space?
- Azure Disk Caching
- Azure Temporary Disk
- Azure Disk Resiliency & High-Availability
- Linux Swap File
- Linux Disk Layout
- Linux File System
- File Access Tracking
- Software RAID

Post number 1 and post number 2 - how to use and what is new services - Azure Data Factory and Stream Analytics.

Details about Network Security Groups

How to configure certificates for Azure WebSites Apps

A great FAQ on Azure networking opportunities. Need to read. Many questions answered, such as SLA, Ping, Tracert, load balancer, etc.

How to build a DMZ in Azure - you often need to build a DMZ in the cloud like a DMZ locally.

Explains in detail about the Microsoft Red Teaming team that is involved in Azure security testing. It is interesting to see how the internal teams are engaged in checking the perimeters of security.

About the performance of machines A / D series and recommendations.

How to upload full-text from the shoulders of a local SQL Server to the cloud on Azure Search shoulders using the example of Integrated Change Tracking

Stream Analytics is a real-time event processing service with Event Hubs support. Materials for study:
Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics
Limits in the Stream Analytics preview release
Developer guide for Stream Analytics
Query language reference for Stream Analytics
REST API reference for Stream Analytics
Scale Stream Analytics jobs

A series of articles on the hybrid cloud - it is useful to read those who do not want to go completely into a public cloud, but want to build a hybrid scheme.

An excellent article about automation is " Cloud Automation in a Windows World ", which describes how to use popular automation features (Vagrant, Chef, Puppet, DSC PowerShell, Boxstarter, Chocolatey) and containers like Docker and Spoon.net for hybrid deployment.

Big Compute in the Cloud with High Performance Computing on Azure - about the problems of large computing.

The video “Introduction to Microsoft Azure RemoteApp” tells about the RemoteApp service - take an image, upload it to the service, get it remotely, you have the same RDP client.

How to use not ICMP, but port pings to check a virtual machine

We host our own virtual conference on Azure

Use Azure WebSite as reverse proxy

Azure Search Deep Dive - detailed and understandable about the new search service

useful links


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