Microsoft Cloud Solution Architects Gino Filicetti and Peter Laudati talk to the guys about an innovative approach to getting your team to learn Azure. They have developed a set of challenge-based hacks which allow for better retention of knowledge.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode267.mp3 Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/aca83d23-620b-46d6-beec-e920bff88847/videos/7794ec50e2/ Hack content: https://aka.ms/wth   Other updates: More reliable event-driven applications in Azure with an updated Event Grid https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/more-reliable-event-driven-applications-in-azure-with-an-updated-event-grid/ We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure. The following features now GA: Dead lettering, Retry policies, Storage Queues as a destination, Hybrid Connections as a destination, Manual Validation Handshake Azure.Source - Volume 70 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-source-volume-70/ Update 19.02 for Azure Sphere public preview now available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-19-02-for-azure-sphere-public-preview-now-available/ Under the hood: Performance, scale, security for cloud analytics with ADLS Gen2 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/under-the-hood-performance-scale-security-for-cloud-analytics-with-adls-gen2/ BlockTalk - IPFS https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Blocktalk/?ocid=AID765057&wt.mc_id=CFID0423