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I want to skill up – but what do I learn? 

The topic of what you should learn is a broad and tricky subject. I asked some of the Microsoft MVPs for their thoughts on what topics you should consider and why. If you're unsure about what you should focus on, why not give these a go?

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Secure Access to Storage: Azure Databricks and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Patterns 

In a previous article we covered six access control patterns, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and the scenarios in which they would be most appropriate. This article aims to complete the security discussion by providing an overview of network security between these two services, and how to connect securely to ADLS from ADB using Azure Private Link.

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10 high demand roles for developers and how to skill up 

We’re excited to provide learning and employability tools to help 25 million people around the world gain the skills they need to skill up and pursue roles that are in-demand in an increasingly digital economy. Using existing and new resources from LinkedIn, GitHub, and Microsoft, this initiative will be grounded in three areas of activity.

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Just-in-time Azure Databricks access tokens and instance pools for Azure Data Factory pipelines using workspace automation 

Using AAD tokens it is now possible to generate an Azure Databricks personal access token programmatically, and provision an instance pool using the Instance Pools API. The token can be generated and utilised at run-time to provide “just-in-time” access to the Databricks workspace. Using the same AAD token, an instance pool can also be provisioned and used to run a series of Databricks activities in the same ADF pipeline.

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Inversion of Control Cached Proxy Pattern 

In this article, Anthony Dang presents a caching pattern which avoids common caching pitfalls, by decoupling the cache from the unperforming code using inversion of control.