New enhancements to .NET 5 include smaller, faster single-file applications that use less memory, which are appropriate for microservices and containerized applications across operating systems.

Updates to the Azure App Service managed platform for building, deploying and scaling web apps include new price points, an updated Premium offering, support for Windows Containers, a new multinetwork App Service Environment and integration with GitHub Actions.

Useful docs for understanding Azure’s global infrastructure can be found here

A NEW VERSION OF THIS EXAM, AZ-104, BECAME AVAILABLE ON APRIL 2, 2020. You will be able to take this exam until it retires on or around August 31, 2020. Note: Exams retire at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time.

There are two main concepts when it comes to Azure Functions, and that is “Events” and “Code”. The concept of Azure Functions is that “Events” trigger “Code” Some examples of events are, new data being available (item being put onto a queue or blob storage), or an HTTP request is received for running some code based off a webhook or building a REST API.

Using ARM Templates together with the Azure Powershell CLI we can reduce the amount of manual configuration or setup we have to do in an Azure subscription.