March 2017 Azure Technical Guru Awards!

First published on MSDN on Apr 25, 2017

Authored by Ed Price

It's time to celebrate the top Azure Wiki articles from March 2017!

Here is a straight list of the articles that appeal more to a developer, building out a PaaS solution:

• Secure Logic Apps endpoint with API Management

• Azure Logic Apps Debatching: Splitting Messages and process them separately

• Azure Automation : Create and Invoke Azure Runbook using Webhooks from Client Applications

• Create an Azure Media Services Application

• Create an Azure Media Services Account

• Azure: Geographical Comparison Between Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP (Late 2016)

And now let's get to the winners:

	Abhishek Kumar (MVP)	Secure Logic App endpoint with API Management	Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan : “Good write up.” Gaurav Kumar Arora : “Nice , informative and in-depth article. Grammar need attention.” Lasse Wedø : “Think this was a good article” Dileepa Kariyawasam : “Nicely written. Good use of Images. Excellent.” Eric Berg : “Thank you. Good Work!” Kia Zhi Tang : “Nice Walkthrough Wiki article. It will great to include a Reference section for external links and a See Also section should be other related Wiki articles as you have mentioned TechNet Wiki has a lot of BizTalk related articles.”
	Priyaranjan KS	Azure Automation : Create and Invoke Azure Runbook using Webhooks from Client Applications	Lasse Wedø : “Think this was a good article with real value. Could possibly have a better high-level introduction.” Dileepa Kariyawasam : “Very informative article. Superbly written.” Eric Berg : “Thank you for this great contribution. Nice!” Kia Zhi Tang : “Nice Walkthrough Wiki article with good TOC and Reference section. It will be great to include See Also section with other similar related Wiki articles.” Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan : “Good topic, but too many images and very little plain-text description. Please consider more text for future posts.” Gaurav Kumar Arora : “Very detailed article, nice use of images.”
	Alexandro Prado & Ed Price	Azure: Geographical Comparison Between Microsoft Azure, AWS, and GCP (Late 2016)	Kia Zhi Tang : “Very informative Wiki for Public Cloud industry. Hope to see it constantly updated.” Gaurav Kumar Arora : “Impressive comparison, I found Azure on the top.” Dileepa Kariyawasam : “Very informative article. Excellent.” Eric Berg : “Thank you guys. Good work and nice comparison” Lasse Wedø : “A nice comparison, but I can’t see it bringing any new value”

Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:

• Azure LogicApp Debatching: Splitting Messages and process them separately by Baran Mano
  Eric Berg : “Thank you. Great article.”
  Lasse Wedø : “Could use a better intro and description”
  Kia Zhi Tang : “Nice Wiki article. It will be great to have a Reference section of external LogicApp documentations and a See Also section that has other LogicApp Wiki articles.”
  Gaurav Kumar Arora : “Nice article, need to take of formatting.”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam : “Nicely written article. Good use of images. Please include references and summery next time.”

• Azure Solution: Problems with sharing data in China? Use Azure way to fix this by Digvijay S Rajawat
  Dileepa Kariyawasam : “Good article. Include references, summery and a see also section next time.”
  Eric Berg : “Thank you for this article”
  Kia Zhi Tang : “Try drafting Wiki article in third person view instead of first person view. Wiki is not a blog and it will be good to have factual Reference section and See Also section on related Wiki articles.”

• Create a Azure Media Services Application by Sjoukje Zaal
  Kia Zhi Tang : “Good effort for sharing this Wiki article. It will be great if it includes Requirement section, Conclusion/Summary section, Reference section for external documentation links and See Also section of other related Wiki articles.”
  Gaurav Kumar Arora : “Concise and worthwhile write up”
  Lasse Wedø : “A walk through, but I can’t see it bringing any new value”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam : “Good article. Would have added see also and references sections.”
  Eric Berg : “Thank you. For those with less experience with AMS a bit more description of the code would be great”

• Create a Azure Media Services Account by Sjoukje Zaal
  Kia Zhi Tang : “Good effort for sharing this Wiki article. It will be great if it includes Conclusion/Summary section, Reference section for external documentation links and See Also section of other related Wiki articles.”
  Lasse Wedø : “A walk through, but I can’t see it bringing any new value”
  Dileepa Kariyawasam : “Simple article. Could have provided see also and references.”
  Eric Berg : “Thank you”

A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to March’s competition. You can find awards for 14 more categories here . If you haven’t contributed an article for this April, and you think you can create a great wiki article, here’s your chance ! 😀

Remember to keep your head in the Cloud!

- Ninja Ed

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