re:Invent 2023 day 3 recap
AI-related announcements dominate once more. New models for Bedrock. Vector search everywhere, and DynamoDB does a bait-and-switch. Welcome to day 3 of re:Invent 2023.
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Explore Azure Integration Environments and Business Process Tracking in Public Preview
As we know, Microsoft Ignite is one of the premier conferences that developers and IT enthusiasts look forward to every year and it just concluded leaving the global audience all excited about the new capabilities that they can leverage while building innovative solutions. This edition was remarkable, with over 100+ announcements covering a range of topics from Windows and Microsoft 365 to Azure.
Azure Savings Plan vs Reserved Instances
In the world of cloud computing, Azure is a leading player, offering a wide range of services for businesses of all sizes. As organizations continue to migrate their workloads to the cloud, cost management becomes a critical aspect of their strategy. Two key options for optimizing costs on Azure are Azure Savings Plans and Reserved Instances (RIs). In this blog, we will explore the differences between these two cost-saving mechanisms and help you decide which one is right for your organization.
An overview of Azure Integration Environments & Business Process Tracking | Microsoft Ignite 2023
Microsoft introduced Azure Integration Environment, a new unified experience that allows users to organize their resources into logical groupings to manage their integration resources at Microsoft Ignite 2023. By using this platform, customers can leverage integration as a strategic advantage, unlocking new opportunities and streamlining operations. The two core components of this unified experience are.
Azure cost management: Tips and tricks for Azure spend reduction #cloudcostoptimization
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re:Invent 2023 day 2 recap
We had the opening keynote by Adam Selipsky. If you missed the live stream, you can watch it on YouTube here. Unsurprisingly, so much of the keynote was about AI.
Azure Cosmos DB Monitoring
Azure Cosmos DB, offered by Microsoft as an integral part of the Azure cloud platform, is a multi-model database service with a global distribution. It efficiently partitions data for the creation of exceptionally scalable applications. Being a fully managed solution, Azure Cosmos DB relieves you of the responsibilities associated with database administration. It takes care of management tasks like updates and patches automatically.
Azure Integration Services End to end management & monitoring scenarios -Wagner and Slava Koltovich
In this session titled "Azure Integration Services end to end management and monitoring scenarios" by Wagner Silveria and Slava Koltovich from Microsoft, they delve into the intricacies of Azure Integration Services. This session unveils the latest strategies for end-to-end management and monitoring scenarios in integration applications. Experience real-time demos, including a deep dive into the integration solution for Customer Service Power Outages, showcasing the unified experience and innovative Business Process Tracking.
re:Invent 2023 day 1 recap
After the absolute barrage of announcements on day 0, day 1 brought us some mild excitement and one big disappointment…
re:Invent 2023 day 0 recap
In typical re:Invent fashion, AWS has made a series of big announcements before the main event even kicks off! Here are some groundbreaking serverless updates that you should know about.
Enhance your visibility into OTel-instrumented apps in AWS Lambda
Enabling auto-instrumentation for your Lambda functions provides detailed insights into the performance and security of your serverless applications. Developers often also use custom instrumentation to fine-tune visibility and further tailor telemetry to their business needs. However, different teams within your organization might use a variety of instrumentation libraries, and achieving more granular visibility can come at the expense of data portability and interoperability.
Azure Logic Apps Pricing
It is vital to understand the price of Azure Logic Apps for multiple reasons, regardless of whether you are a developer overseeing their implementation or a business wishing to use the platform for your operations. Understanding the pricing model facilitates efficient budget planning and allocation for your tasks. You can avoid unforeseen expenses and make more accurate cost estimates.
Implementing Security in your AIS Solutions - Alessandro Moura
In this session titles "Implementing Security in your AIS Solutions"Alessandro Moura, Integration Platform Lead at Fisher & Paykel Appliances, takes center stage to address the critical topic of security in Application Integration Solutions (AIS). In this enlightening session, you'll gain valuable insights and best practices for safeguarding your APIs, Azure resources, and network infrastructure.
The best pre:invent serverless announcements you may have missed
It’s that time of the year again as re:Invent is almost upon us Here is a list of the serverless-related announcements so far that you should know about.
Document Azure Environment to monitor Azure usage
As cloud adoption expands, subscribing and provisioning resources increase day by day. Regular analysis and assessment are essential to monitor usage, ensuring that cloud resource spending remains efficient and minimizing waste. The assessments can be made using many ways but will need some level of technical competence and regular maintenance: Not all stakeholders will have access and the necessity to check through these tools.
How can Serverless360 help me on my BizTalk to AIS journey
In this session titled "How can Serverless360 help me on my BizTalk to AIS journey", Michael Stephenson, Integration Consultant, discusses how Serverless360 can ease your transition from BizTalk to Azure Integration Services. Discover powerful features like Business Applications, Business Activity Monitoring, cost analysis, and Azure documenter that can help you simplify your migration journey.
What's new and upcoming in Azure Event Grid - George Guirguis
This session by George Guirguis, Product Manager from Microsoft, unveils the latest and upcoming features of Azure Event Grid. Gain insights into HTTP event push and pull delivery mechanisms and discover how they enhance real-time event processing and retrieval. George also introduces MQTT support, expanding Event Grid's capabilities for IoT scenarios.
Landing safely with Azure Integration Services - Dan Toomey
In this session titled "Landing safely with Azure Integration Services", Dan Toomey dives deep into optimizing cloud architecture frameworks, emphasizing the role of Azure Landing Zones. With the advent of the Azure Integration Services landing zone, he illuminates six vital design areas and their best practices. From robust identity and access management to efficient platform automation and DevOps strategies, Dan guides through the labyrinth of Azure's integration capabilities.
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Azure Key Vault Certificate Expiration Monitoring
Azure Key Vault is a cloud-based service provided by Microsoft Azure for managing and safeguarding cryptographic keys, secrets, and digital certificates used by cloud applications and services. It offers a secure and compliant way to store, manage, and control access to these sensitive pieces of information. Key Vault is designed to help protect the confidentiality and integrity of data, enhance the security of applications, and simplify key management tasks.
GraphQL at scale with Azure API Management - Toon Vanhoutte
On Day 3 of INTEGRATE2023, Toon Vanhoutte dives into the transformative capabilities of GraphQL in scale with Azure API Management. Highlighting GraphQL's efficiency over REST and its widespread adoption by tech giants, Toon also sheds light on its challenges, from design to security. The takeaway? While REST dominates, GraphQL is making significant strides. Discover the nuances of modern API management in this engaging session.
How to effectively monitor PowerShell Jobs running on VM or Azure?
Do you need help with the task of overseeing PowerShell jobs on your Azure or VM? In this video, Mike Stephenson discusses the problems IT operators face when dealing with complex PowerShell jobs on Azure, like run failures in PowerShell scripts. This video provides a solution that shifts support away from PowerShell experts, empowering support and business users to gain visibility over your PowerShell jobs on Azure or VM. This can help them easily handle low-value support tasks by shifting their reliance on PowerShell experts.
Azure Integration Account Certificate Expiration Monitoring
The Azure Integration Account is part of the Logic Apps Enterprise Integration Pack (EIP) and serves as a secure, easily manageable, and scalable repository for the integration artifacts that you create. You can create and store agreements, certificates, maps, partners, and schemas in your integration account and refer them seamlessly across all your Logic Apps. This streamlined approach facilitates the swift and hassle-free creation of B2B processes using Logic Apps.
Real time event stream processing and analytics - Kevin Lam and Ajeta Singhal
Microsoft's Kevin Lam and Ajeta Singhal lead an exploration into real-time event streaming and Azure Stream Analytics. They discuss the transformative journey of data consumption, Azure's robust no-code capabilities, and introduce Microsoft Fabric, likened to "Office 365 for Data." The session concludes with an engaging demo on Synapse Real-time Analytics, providing attendees with a compact yet comprehensive glimpse into the future of data analytics.
Power Automate Monitoring
Power Automate is a cloud-based service that Microsoft provides as part of Power Platform. It allows users to create automated workflows integrating various applications and services. It is designed for a wide range of users, from business professionals looking to automate daily tasks to developers who can create more complex automation. A trigger initiates a Flow in Power Automate followed by predefined actions. Each execution of the Flow creates a run.
Unlocking Open Telemetry for Golang
Open Telemetry (OTel) is an open source observability framework that has garnered significant attention for its powerful capabilities in monitoring metrics, logs and traces.. It is second only to Kubernetes in the CNCF velocity chart with contributions being made from major players in the cloud industry, and has a growing community helping build out a thriving ecosystem.
Kubecon North America 2023 event recap
As autumn graced the vibrant city of Chicago, I had the distinct opportunity to immerse myself in the heart of innovation and camaraderie at the CNCF’s Kubecon North America conference. Over the span of four remarkable days, from Nov 6-9, I was fortunate enough to walk alongside the many enthusiasts, contributors and organizers of open source and cloud native communities.
Azure Logic Apps Monitoring
Monitoring Azure Logic Apps is crucial for managing and improving the performance of your integration workflows in Azure. As more organizations use Logic Apps to automate their business processes, having a strong monitoring system is important.
Serverless Workflows using Durable Functions and Logic Apps in Azure - Jonah Andersson
In this session titled "Serverless Workflows using Durable Functions and Logic Apps in Azure", DevOps Engineer Jonah Andersson explores Azure Durable Functions and Logic Apps, emphasizing their role in serverless workspaces. She discusses the benefits of low-code/no-code solutions, showcases diverse application design patterns, and much more Concluding with insights on when to use each service, this session offers a concise overview for those interested in serverless computing.
The Future of Serverless is AI WebAssembly by Matt Butcher - Navigate Europe 23
Join Matt Butcher as he explores the future of serverless computing, unveiling the power of WebAssembly and AI inferencing on Fermyon's innovative platform. Learn about the evolution from virtual machines and containers to serverless functions, understand serverless computing from a developer's perspective, and discover how Fermyon is making AI inferencing more accessible and efficient.
Azure Event Grid Monitoring and Alerting
Azure Event Grid is a versatile and event-driven service within the Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem, designed to enable seamless event handling and routing across various Azure services and external sources. This powerful service plays a pivotal role in facilitating event-driven architectures, streamlining the development and management of cloud-based applications and systems.
Azure Logic Apps deep dive - Slava Koltovich and Wagner Silveira
In this session, Slava Koltovich and Wagner Silveira from Microsoft unveil the latest developments and future roadmap of Azure Logic Apps. Dive into feature updates like the support for Functions v4, 30+ new connectors, and enhanced security for SWIFT-based transactions. Discover the revamped Logic App designer and the benefits of Azure Integration Services' monitoring feature for comprehensive workflow visibility. Wagner introduces the new Data Mapper, simplifying data transformations with its intuitive interface and drag-and-drop functionality.
What's New in Serverless360: Azure SQL Elastic Pool Support, Monitor Virtual Network Gateway & more
Serverless360's latest update, version 3.1.0, brings a suite of enhancements. These include Virtual Network Gateway Connection Monitoring for enhanced security and reliability within the Business Application component.
BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services migration - Sandro Pereira
Sandro Pereira from DevScope, enriched Day 2 of the INTEGRATE 2023 diving deep into the topic of "BizTalk Server to Azure Integration Services migration." While clarifying that BizTalk isn't disappearing soon, Sandro emphasized the importance of understanding both BizTalk Server and Azure before embarking on a migration journey.
Azure Service Bus Monitoring and Alerting
Microsoft Azure offers a cloud-based messaging service called Azure Service Bus. The goal is to streamline communication between disparate components or applications, regardless of whether they are distributed across multiple environments and locations or operating on the same Azure platform. With Azure Service Bus, you can develop distributed systems that are scalable, reliable, and decoupled.
Event Hubs Kafka and event streaming at high speed - Kasun Indrasiri and Steve Gennard
Microsoft's Kasun Indrasiri and Steve Gennard from the London Stock Exchange break down the world of Event Hubs in this session titled "Event Hubs - Kafka and event streaming at high-speed". Learn about the importance of streaming events in real-time and how Azure Event Hubs makes it easy to work with Kafka. They also introduce new tools and updates, such as the Data Generator preview. Plus, find out about the latest upgrades that make Event Hubs faster and more efficient.
Setting up better logging in Azure Functions
We have been using Azure Functions for years. Being able to easily deploy and run code on both Azure App Services and real serverless has been a killer feature for all of our asynchronous jobs and services. Unfortunately, the logging approach provided as part of the default template is not ideal. In this post, I'll introduce you to the first steps we take in all of our existing and new function apps to improve logging. A quick note about the Azure Functions runtime.
Real world examples of Business Activity Monitoring with Serverless360 - Michael Stephenson
In this session titled "Real-world examples of Business Activity Monitoring with Serverless360" led by Michael Stephenson, discover the game-changing potential of Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) with Serverless360. Explore how BAM facilitates end-to-end tracking of your business processes, from new employee integration to system performance.
A Simple Guide To AWS Lambda Rightsizing
AWS Lambda can be an easy-to-implement solution for those looking for serverless application deployments and operations. However, how can you be sure that you are getting the most for your money when it comes to utilizing this service? This guide will explain some of the tools and resources at your disposal — whether you’re utilizing the AWS console, trying to optimize your code and design, or a combination of the two.
Modernising the supply chain with Logic Apps and EDI - Martin Abbot & Bill Chestnut
The dynamic duo Martin Abbot & Bill Chestnut unravel EDI's (Electronic Data Interchange) pivotal role in modern supply chains in this session titked "Modernising the supply chain with Logic Apps and EDI". Martin breaks down EDI's workings and its real-world applications via the CData Arc Platform and Logic Apps. Concurrently, Bill demystifies integration account testing and AS2 certificate crafting. The collaboration illuminates the transformative synergy of EDI and Logic Apps for today's supply chain.
Using Azure App configuration with Azure Integration Services - Bill Chesnut
Step into the world of Azure App Configuration with Bill Chesnut from SixPivot at INTEGRATE 2023 in this session titled "Using Azure App configuration with Azure Integration Services". Bill demystifies the process of application development, highlighting the advantages of Azure App Configuration over direct Azure Key Vault access. From real-world GitHub examples to its seamless integration with Logic Apps, learn how app configuration simplifies and secures your workflow.
Logic App Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks: #37 How to get distinct values from an array?
Welcome again to another Logic Apps Best Practices, Tips, and Tricks. In my previous blog posts, I discussed some of the essential best practices you should have while working with the Azure Logic App. Today, I will speak about another helpful Best Practice, Tips, and Tricks that you must consider while designing your business processes (Logic Apps): How do we get distinct values from an array or repeating structure?
Replay Specific Messages in Azure Service Bus
In the first part of this proof-of-concept – How to replay messages from Azure Service Bus? – Part 1: The dead-letter queue, we explored how to replay messages that have entered the dead-letter queue. In this second part, we explore how to resend a specific message of our choice.
Why is application integration so hard - Steef Jan Wiggers
Starting the first session of Day 2 at INTEGRATE, Steef Jan Wiggers explores the intricate world of integration in the session titled "Why is integration so hard". He offers insight into the challenges of connecting diverse systems and technologies, moving from the era dominated by SAP and mainframes to our imminent cloud-forward future. Highlighting pressing topics like the challenges of building in the cloud, the transformative potential of Dapr, and the broad scope of OpenTelemetry (OTel), Steef offers detailed insights.