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.NET Inline C# Action Feature in Logic Apps: More Flexibility and Control for Developers
Microsoft has announced a significant enhancement to its Azure Logic Apps service by introducing .NET C# inline code execution. This new feature enables developers to call C# code directly within their workflows, providing greater flexibility and control over custom logic and complex operations.
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Introducing New SKUs for Microsoft Azure Bastion: Developer and Premium Options Now Available
Microsoft recently announced new SKUs for its Azure Bastion service: a Developer SKU that is now generally available (GA) after its public preview last year and a premium SKU being rolled out in a public preview.
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Local Emulator for Azure Event Hubs in Preview: Offering Developers a Local Development Experience
Microsoft recently launched the local emulator's preview release for Azure Event Hubs. This emulator is designed to give developers a local development experience for Azure Event Hubs, allowing them to develop and test code against the services in isolation.
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Azure API Center Now Generally Available
Microsoft has announced Azure API Center's general availability (GA), which offers centralized API inventory for easy API discovery, reuse, and governance regardless of API type, lifecycle stage, or deployment location.
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DigitalOcean Introduces CPU-Based Autoscaling for its App Plaform
DigitalOcean has launched automatic horizontal scaling for its App Platform PaaS, aiming to free developers from the burden of scaling services up or down based on CPU load all by themselves.
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Enhancing Engineering Design and Collaboration with Azure’s New Secure Simulation Workbench
Microsoft recently launched the public preview of Azure Modeling and Simulation Workbench (MSWB). This fully-managed engineering environment enables secure user collaboration while protecting data and IP via multi-layered security and access control solutions.
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Microsoft Introduces Static Web Apps' New Feature: Distributed Functions for Enhanced Performance
Microsoft has announced a new Azure Static Web Apps feature called distributed functions. It automatically distributes managed functions to high-demand regions of Static Web Apps.
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Partitioned Namespaces for Azure Service Bus Premium Are Now Generally Available
During the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of partitioned namespaces feature for Azure Service Bus, which allows customers to use partitioning for the premium messaging tier.
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Microsoft Announces a New Azure SQL Database Free Offer in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new Azure SQL Database free offering. This offering provides users a 32 GB General Purpose, serverless Azure SQL database with 100,000 vCore seconds of compute free monthly.
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Azure API Center Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure API Center - a part of the Azure API Management platform that serves as a central hub where users can keep track of all their APIs company-wide, making them readily discoverable, reusable, and manageable.
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Microsoft Introduces Public Preview of Socket.IO Support on Azure Web PubSub
Microsoft recently added support for Socket.IO on Azure in public preview, allowing developers to leverage a fully-managed cloud solution through Web PubSub for Socket.IO.
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Azure Container Apps Workload Profiles, Dedicated Plans, More Networking Features, and Jobs GA
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of several Azure Container App features: workload profiles environment, dedicated plan, additional networking features, and jobs.
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Intra-Account Collection Copy in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB in Public Preview
Microsoft recently introduced the public preview of Intra-Account Collection Copy for Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB, allowing users to copy collections within the same account - offering enhanced data management and migration capabilities.
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CDK for Terraform Improves HCL Conversion and Terraform Cloud Interactions
HashiCorp has released a number of new improvements to the CDK for Terraform (CDKTF). These improvements include enhanced type coercion, iterators support, and function support. Other improvements target the experience of working with CDKTF within Terraform Cloud or Terraform Enterprise. This includes improvements to plan and apply and the automated creation of Terraform workspaces.
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VMware Tanzu Application Platform Adds Buildpack Improvements and Application Limits
VMware released a number of new features for the Tanzu Application Platform and the Tanzu Application Service. Tanzu Application Platform provides a multi-cloud platform that runs on Kubernetes. Tanzu Application Service is a delivery and operations platform. The features include buildpack improvements, API maturity scoring, services to prevent the impact of noisy neighbors, and shared routes.