New Storage Providers for Azure Durable Functions
Azure Durable Functions now supports two new backend storage providers for storing durable runtime state, “Netherite” and Microsoft SQL Server (including full support for Azure SQL Database). These new storage options allow you to run at higher scale, with greater price-performance efficiency, and more portability compared to the default Azure Storage configuration. Any of these three storage providers can be configured without making any code changes to your existing apps.The new SCAN Operator: Process Mining in Azure Data Explorer
Would you like to better understand your users` funnel? Optimize performance of production workflows? Improve QoS of cloud services? All of these tasks are scenarios of process mining . Now you can do it and lot more directly in Azure Data Explorer using the new SCAN operator. Curious? Please read on!NVIDIA GPU Acceleration for Apache Spark™ in Azure Synapse Analytics
With built-in support for NVIDIA’s RAPIDS acceleration, the Azure Synapse version of GPU-accelerated Spark offers gains of 2x on standard analytical benchmarks compared to running on CPUs, all without any code changes. Beginning today, this GPU acceleration feature in Azure Synapse is available for private preview by request.
