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Microsoft Releases AI-Powered Code Optimizations to Monitor .NET Apps

Microsoft has announced the public preview of Code Optimizations for Azure Monitor. The new AI-powered service enables customers to detect CPU and memory usage performance issues with their .NET apps and services. Microsoft first introduced the Code Optimizations feature (previously called Optimization Insights) in a limited preview back in March 2022. It’s part of the...

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Microsoft Simplifies IT Monitoring with New Azure Managed Grafana Service

Last year, Microsoft unveiled its plans to create a fully-managed version of Grafana that runs natively on its Azure cloud platform. Now, the Redmond giant has announced that the new Azure Managed Grafana service is now available in public preview. Grafana is basically an open-source platform that enables organizations to visualize multiple types of reliability…

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What’s New with Azure – September 2021

Microsoft recently announced that their Ignite (online only) conference will be running again on November 2-4. That means we are approaching peak season for announcements, new public preview releases, and general availability. “Q3” in announcements and roadmaps will often mean between early September and maybe the third week of October – a code freeze will…

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What’s New with Azure Infrastructure – August 2021 Edition

I think you’ll find that there are quite a few announcements this month. The summer quiet period is over, and we’re into a whole new development/release semester in Microsoft, not to mention the countdown to the usual peak release season for Microsoft Ignite has started – most releases announced at Ignite happen well before Ignite….

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What’s New with Azure – July 2021 Edition

July – a month that many take a vacation in, and it’s the start of the commercial year for Microsoft. That year kicks off with Microsoft Inspire, a conference for the partner community to learn about what Microsoft is launching and how Microsoft wants their partners to sell to customers. Most of the content is…

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – May 2021 Edition

Microsoft’s Build conference was on last week and it gave us lots of AI, Machine Learning, and every other type of “machines doe it better” cloud tech announcements. But there were also a few infrastructure announcements during the month. I’ve become the “Azure networking” person at my job, so it’s no surprise (to me) that…

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – April 2021 Edition

I’ve been drowning in project deadlines for the last month and I’ve not had a chance to keep up with the improvements in Microsoft Azure IaaS. So this month’s article is as much for me as it is for you! New General Purpose VMs The most common virtual machine family that I use in Microsoft…

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – March 2021 Edition

Microsoft ran another virtual edition of the Ignite conference in March. As usual there were a large number of Azure infrastructure announcements. Availability Zones Expansion Microsoft has committed to introducing availability zones to all Azure regions by the end of 2021. An Azure region (supposedly) is made up of one or more physical data centers…

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – January 2021 Edition

The first month of the year has come and gone but here is a recap of the Azure announcements for January.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – December 2020 Edition

Happy new year! I’m writing this article at the end of my first day back at work since November. I have barely looked at any work-related stuff in the last month. Writing this article will give me a chance to catch up with thing. App Service Anti-Virus Logs in Public Preview Microsoft has announced that…

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