Azure API Management news at Ignite 2021: Event Grid, GraphQL and WebSockets
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by rasmusg
2y ago
Ignite 2021 introduced at least three interesting updates to API Management: support for Event Grid, GraphQ, and WebSockets. I will try to cover the essence of the updates here. API Management and Event Grid integration is now generally available Event Grid is a notification service for Azure. A given service can publish updates to Event Grid and other services (e.g. an Azure Function) can listen to events and act upon them. For API Management, the event grid integration supports a lot of practical scenarios, e.g.: Scenario #1: custom validation logic for API subscriptions: A user subscribes t ..read more
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AZURE NEWS: What’s new with .NET on Azure Functions – June 2021
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by rasmusg
3y ago
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 includes full support for .Net 5.0 ‘isolated process’ in Azure Functions, as well as early preview support for .Net 6 in Azure Functions. Here are some important facts about .NET5 and 6 support in Azure Functions: Visual Studio 2019 v16.10, released in May, includes full support for creating, local debugging, and deploying .NET 5.0 isolated process Azure Functions apps Local tooling support for creating, running, and deploying .NET 6.0 function apps is currently limited to a preview release of Azure Functions Core Tools V4 Use the latest release of Azure Fu ..read more
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AZURE NEWS: Azure API Management Premium tier price reduction for incremental purchased units
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by rasmusg
3y ago
API Management Premium tier prices have been reduced by 50% for all subsequent units purchased after the first unit. This makes it even more cost-effective to utilize API Management features such as Availability Zone support and multi-region capabilities. You don’t need to take any action to activate the savings. You can determine prices in other currencies on the API Management pricing page. Here are some key takeaways from the announcement: API Management Premium tier prices have been reduced by 50% for all subsequent units purchased after the first unit This makes it even more co ..read more
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BUILD 2021 NEWS: “Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management”
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by rasmusg
3y ago
Native support for WebSocket APIs (public preview) in Azure API Management. This enables you to manage, protect, observe, and expose your WebSocket API in API Management, alongside REST and SOAP APIs. It is available in all API Management pricing tiers (except Consumption) and every region where the API Management service is available. A regular API Management Service update will start in June and it may take several weeks for your service to receive the feature. Here are some important takeaways from the announcement: Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management Add a WebSocket ..read more
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AZURE NEWS: Enable azure site recovery (ASR) while Azure Virtual Machines are created
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by rasmusg
3y ago
In-line enablement of ASR at the time of VM creation, a new feature just released by Microsoft. This capability helps you avoid the hassle of separately configuring DR across regions (or zones) after the creation of VMs. ASR is a key pillar of Microsoft’s resiliency offering, which allows you to protect your Azure VMs against regional outages. Here are some key takeaways from the announcement: Announcing a new capability in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to further improve the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) posture of Azure VMs – in-line enablement of ASR at the time of VM creati ..read more
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AZURE NEWS: “Prevent Shared Key authorization for an Azure Storage account”
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by rasmusg
3y ago
Microsoft has recently released a new feature that allows you to prevent Shared Key authentication for Azure Storage Accounts: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/prevent-shared-key-authorization-for-an-azure-storage-account/ Here are some key takeaways from the announcement: When you disallow Shared Key authorization for a storage account, requests from clients that are using the ‘account access keys’ for Shared Key authorization will fail Use metrics to determine how many requests the storage account is receiving that are authorized with Shared Key or a shared access signature (SAS) A ..read more
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Working with HTTP errors in PowerShell
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by rasmusg
3y ago
PowerShell is a great language to query REST APIs. When I call a REST API, I usually expect things to go well, but sometimes it doesn’t. So, how should I handle HTTP errors like 404, 403, and so on? When invoking REST API methods, I use PowerShell’s ‘Invoke-RestMethod‘ cmdlet. When I call a REST method with ‘Invoke-RestMethod,’ it returns a string containing the content returned by the REST method. If the REST method returns a valid result, everything is okay. If the REST method returns an error, then ‘Invoke-RestMethod‘ returns nothing. So, how do we inspect HTTP errors with ‘Invoke-RestMetho ..read more
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AZURE NEWS: Azure Monitor SQL Insights for Azure SQL is now in public preview
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by rasmusg
3y ago
Azure Monitor SQL Insights offers you a flexible platform for telemetry collection, analysis and rich, custom visualization. The new interactive experiences with SQL Insights allow you to customize telemetry collection and frequency and also combine data from multiple sources into a single monitoring experience for your entire SQL portfolio. SQL Insights is built on the Azure Monitor platform, giving customers access to the built-in alarm and visualization functionality, and SQL Insights scales easily to meet varying resource needs. Azure SQL Insights is available as a public preview for Azure ..read more
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AZURE NEWS: “Creating Azure Functions using .NET 5” (preview)
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by rasmusg
3y ago
AZURE NEWS: Use .NET 5 in your Azure Functions In December, Microsoft announced that they were working on an “out-of-process” version of .NET 5 for Azure Functions. Since then, Microsoft has continued their work, and now they have released a guide on how to create Azure Functions that support .NET 5. This also includes workarounds for Linux-based Functions. The .NET 5 support contains some ‘breaking changes, but nothing critical, and in general, it works really well.   Read Microsoft’s blog post here: (Preview) Creating Azure Functions using .NET 5 – Microsoft Tech Community See the Azure ..read more
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Big rise in Azure SQL’s popularity
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by rasmusg
3y ago
According to the professional media DB-engines, Azure SQL Database has been named one of the most popular databases by 2020. Azure SQL’s popularity score has increased by more than 200% in the last year which resulted in a place on DB-engines top 3 list. Azure SQL is a PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) database that is both flexible and scalable. It is used both with newly developed cloud apps and as part of the migration of existing systems.   ..read more
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