Keep up with Azure (AzureCharts)
Azure is public cloud offering from Microsoft is considered 2nd largest cloud provider and has more than 140 service, this list keep getting updated, multiple service gets updated multiple times in a day too..
Keeping with azure updates and services is overwhelming and can be daunting, there are many updates happens in azure and sometime not all updates relevant to you, as they from different domain and role specific too.
Listing down few way to keep track to keep yourself relevant/updated in this lighting journey
Azure Chart (not azure product or service) - https://azurecharts.com/ is great to check what is happening, let's say you were out for week and wanted to check what changed in last 7 days, you can check this here.
Also they are many services but if you are developer and not much worried about consuming Ops or Security related updates, you are covered too, you can simply select your role and get only what relevant to you.
Your workload is hosted in specific azure region and wanted to track when what azure service being Generally Available or what new service being available..can track too in Azure chart.
Few interesting and most visited azure blogs to follow
- https://thomasthornton.cloud/
- https://build5nines.com/
- https://pixelrobots.co.uk/
- https://cloudtweaks.com/
- https://www.infoworld.com/
And if you are interested to catch over podcast then look for below podcast on your favorite player.
- CloudSkills.fm
- The Azure Podcast
- Azure Friday
- IT Career Energizer
- The freeCodeCamp Podcast