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 This Week I Learned -  * Azure’s AI-powered SQL optimization enables automatic tuning and adaptive query optimization. * Seven editions of Windows Server 2008 R2 were released: Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server and Itanium, as well as Windows Storage Server 2008 R2.  * The term NoSQL refers to a family of databases designed to hold non-relational data. The term isn't quite accurate, because many non-relational data stores support SQL compatible queries. The term NoSQL stands for "Not only SQL". * Google Cloud acquired AppSheet, an intelligent no-code application development platform. * Go is in the process of adding generics, which could potentially reduce the lines of code in a popular application such as Kubernetes by the thousands. * Many organizations are now running multiple versions of Kubernetes spanning various Kubernetes distributions. Regardless of what version of Kubernetes an organization is running, managing Kubernetes on a ...

I like  The Five Things series on MSDN Channel 9 . It  has informal answers by Microsoft experts to interesting questions on all things web, all in about 5 minutes along with some no holds barred, light banter. Here is the short version of Five Things About Azure Functions 1. Azure Functions is free as long as you're within its generous monthly limits 2. It supports JavaScript, both Node 8 and 10, Python 3.6, C#, F#, Java 3. Can you run functions locally or do you have to be in the Cloud all times? The run time.. the thing that runs your code & triggers it... that's completely open source and you can run it all locally, you can debug it all locally 4. Visual Studio Code has an extension using which you can create Functions, deploy your Functions & even stream logs 5. Bindings is this nice construct inside of functions where if you need to communicate with other services like, hey, at the end of this function, I need to send a text message or I...