2019 most important Azure announcements for developers

Posted on by Martin Brandl

A few days ago I talked about the most important Azure 2019 (GA) announcement from a developer perspective. My main resource to gather all important Azure product updates, roadmap and announcements from the last year was the official Azure updates page.

Unfortunately, the page doesn’t reveal the count of the announcements in 2019 so I wrote a little PowerShell script to figure that out:

$announcements = for($i=1; $i -le 12; $i++) {
      $month = "{0:d2}" -f $i

      for($n=1; $n -le 100; $n++) {
          $result = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri ('https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/2019/{0}/?Page={1}' -f $month, $n)
            if ($result -match 'No updates match this query.') {
                break
            }
            [regex]::Matches($result, 'text-body2.*href="(.+)">(.+)<\/a>') |
                ForEach-Object {
                    [PsCustomObject]@{
                        Announcement = $_.Groups[2]
                        Link = 'https://azure.microsoft.com{0}' -f $_.Groups[1]
                    }
                }
      }
}

With this script, I was able to determine the announcement count using the Measure-Object cmdlet:

PS > $announcements | Measure-Object

Count             : 1167
Average           :
Sum               :
Maximum           :
Minimum           :
StandardDeviation : 
Property          :

So out of 1167 announcements, here are the most important ones for you:

Januar

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Published by Martin Brandl