LaBrina Loving, a Cloud Architect and Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering division at Microsoft, shares her recent passion with the Data Explorer service. Using a couple of real-world use-cases, she explains the rational behind the service and how developers can utilize it for a wide variety of data processing needs.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode335.mp3

Resources:

Azure Data Explorer Overview - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/data-explorer-overview

Azure Data Explorer Ingestion - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/ingest-data-overview
Getting started with KQL Queries - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/write-queries

SQL to KQL Cheatsheet - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/query/sqlcheatsheet

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Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quota) are now available in preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-quota-rest-api-to-manage-service-limits-quota-are-now-available-in-preview/

Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-live-video-analytics-on-iot-edge-now-in-preview/
Town of Cary innovates flood prediction with IoT
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/town-of-cary-innovates-flood-prediction-with-iot/
Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-microsoft-teams-on-azure-operating-at-pandemic-scale/

Azure responds to COVID-19
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-responds-to-covid19/