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General availability: Up to 45% performance gains in stream processing
Your Stream Analytics jobs get up to 45% performance boost in CPU utilization by default.
General availability: Authenticate to Service Bus using managed identity
Authenticate your Stream Analytics jobs to connect to Service Bus using system-assigned managed identities.
General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL output in Stream Analytics
Native output connector for Azure Database for PostgreSQL allows you to easily build real time applications with the...
General availability: Managed private endpoint support to Synapse SQL output
You can now connect your Stream Analytics jobs running on a dedicated cluster to your synapse dedicated SQL pool using...
How to use Google Cloud to find and protect PII
BigQuery is a leading data warehouse solution in the market today, and is valued by customers who need to gather...
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator
New Azure Data Explorer offering: the Kusto Emulator is a Docker Container encapsulating the Kusto Query Engine.
Public preview: Stream Analytics no-code editor updates in August 2022
New features are now available in Stream Analytics no-code editor public preview including Azure SQL database...
Pro tools for Pros: Industry leading observability capabilities for Dataflow
Dataflow is the industry-leading unified platform offering batch and stream processing. It is a fully managed service...
Connect Gateway and ArgoCD: Deploy to Distributed Kubernetes
Integrating your ArgoCD deployment with Connect Gateway and Workload Identity provides a seamless path to deploy to...
Four non-traditional paths to a cloud career (and how to navigate them)
One thing I love about cloud is that it’s possible to succeed as a cloud engineer from all kinds of different starting...
The emerging field of cloud computing forensics
We’ve all watched those prime-time crime dramas or true crime documentaries where the crime was not solved by the...
IT career roadmap: Cloud engineer
For many companies, the shift to the cloud has been sudden and all-encompassing, and it's left their IT departments...
The cloud is coming for your mainframes
Moore’s Law—you know, the number of transistors in a chip doubles about every two years while the costs are cut in...
Automation is the ultimate cloud security tip
I’ve written about cloud security many times, including this post from 2021. The report I referenced found that...
Microsoft adds container support to .NET SDK
In a bid to boost cloud-native development in .NET, Microsoft has announced built-in container support for the .NET...
3 multicloud lessons for cloud architects
Many cloud architect friends of mine see multicloud on the horizon, but they don’t think they’re prepared for its...
Give finops a say over cloud architecture decisions
For years I’ve ranted about the lack of fiscal responsibility around how we pick and leverage cloud technology for...
If Heroku is so special, why is it dying?
With Heroku, there’s always a “but.” For 15 years, I’ve heard Heroku described as “magical,” as the gold standard for...
Public preview: Encrypt storage account with cross-tenant customer-managed keys
Azure Storage now supports customer-managed keys using a key vault on a different Azure Active Directory tenant.
Generally available: New Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-based processors
New general-purpose and memory-optimized Azure VMs, featuring Ampere Altra Arm-based processors, engineered to...