
V015 - Weekly Technology Vlog #15
Weekly Vlog #15 arrives a little off-schedule — recorded as a live stream at the start of the week after a hectic weekend. Azure blog highlights include the GA of Cloud Services extended support (with a migration tool preview), an update on Azure Orbital’s ground station-as-a-service partnerships, an IoT industry series on lessons learned from manufacturers, and a webinar series on running business-critical applications on Azure. The Azure update round-up is brief: Cloud Services deployment model preview, Azure Monitor Container Insights support for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes, Start VM on Connect for Windows Virtual Desktop, and Azure Purview regional expansions.
On Azure DevOps, the standout post is a practical guide to building and publishing your first GitHub Action — walking through UX design, test templates, and publishing to the GitHub Marketplace. GitHub engineering posts cover how GitHub scales their API using sharding and a replicated rate limiter, and a behind-the-scenes look at their new token format (with identifiable prefixes for PATs, OAuth, and server-to-server tokens) aligning with practices at Slack and Stripe.
Cloud with Chris content includes a Microsoft Learn introductory video, a Windows Terminal Cloud Drop on boosting Azure productivity from the command line, and the Bulkhead pattern episode in the Architecting for the Cloud, One Pattern at a Time series. Chris also recaps his Northern Azure User Group talk alongside Scott Hanselman and teases two upcoming Global Azure sessions: one on deploying a Hugo static site with Azure Storage and CDN for cost-effective performance, and one on GitHub Actions for automated site deployments.
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