Azure Friday (Audio)

Karthik Raman takes Scott on a whirlwind tour of Azure DocumentDB to show off turnkey geo-distribution, high availability, failover policies, and the power of bringing your data to your customers around the world with a click on a map.

Scott talks to Narayan Annamalai from the Azure Networking team about the new Virtual Network Peering feature. VNet peering is a mechanism that connects two virtual networks (VNets) in the same region through the Azure backbone network. Once peered, the two virtual networks appear as one for all connectivity purposes.

Scott talks to Josh Caplan about the General Availability of Microsoft Power BI Embedded. It's a great new Azure service that allows app developers to embed live interactive reports into their applications.

Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to share what's new in Azure DocumentDB.

Azure Logic Apps are generally available and ready for you to build amazing apps! Logic Apps let you quickly build powerful integration solutions and create business processes and workflows visually.

Ashish Kurmi joins Seth to show a quick demo of App Service Certificate (ASC). App Service Certificate (ASC) allows App Service customers to create certificates, use them with their App Service Apps and manage certificate lifecycle in Azure. ASC simplifies the user experience by performing all crypto operations required for generating/rekeying/renewing a certificate and supporting auto cert rotati...

Seth and Chris talk about how triggering and triggers interact with Azure Functions!

Chris Anderson joins Seth and explores how Azure Functions integrate with larger applications.

Donovan Brown joins the Azure Friday team and speaks with Bryon Tardif about the new App Service Companion! App in Google Play Announcement Blog Support Forums on MSDN and Stack Overflow. Feature Requests User Voice Byron on Twitter

Chris Anderson with Azure functions and getting started. No more scaling.

Azure Redis Cache adds new administration options which allows you to test your application for connection resiliency in case of a failure and also schedule updates to Azure Redis Cache. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-administration/

Azure introduces a new UX for Azure WebJobs with Seth and Chris.

Pranav and Seth go in depth about Redis Cache and improving security.

In this video we will look at some of the best practices on how should you pick the right Redis Cache offering for your use case. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-faq/

Redis clustering gives you maximum scale and throughput. Azure Redis Cache offers Redis cluster as implemented in Redis. In Azure, Redis cluster is offered as a primary/replica model where each shard has a primary/replica pair with replication where the replication is managed by Azure Redis Cache service. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-how-to-premium-clustering/ htt...

How to get started with Akamai on Azure CDN, our newest provider, using both the Azure portal and a Powershell script. We explore the features and options in setting up an endpoint, and look at reasons for using multiple CDN providers. The Cedexis site mentioned here.

At Azure Support, our aim is to help you in your cloud journey, all the way from initial experimentation to running production workloads on Azure with confidence. Software fails, hardware breaks and you can run into issues when trying new things. That's why it's important that you're able to diagnose and resolve issues quickly. To support those efforts, the Azure Support team is pleased to share f...

Den Delimarsky shows how to quickly build a Chrome app that will leverage Azure Notification Hubs for push notifications within the browser. You can follow the official tutorial.

Den Delimarsky shows how to use Azure Notification Hubs to deliver push notifications to an Android application. You can follow the official tutorial and download the sample code on GitHub.

Den Delimarsky shows how to use Azure Notification Hubs from a Xamarin. Android application. You can follow the official tutorial.

Microsoft Azure will be offering state of the art GPU visualization infrastructure and GPU compute infrastructure for various different scenarios like gaming, streaming, transcoding, machine learning, visualized CAD applications and many more other workloads that utilize GPUs. Relevant Links: Introduction to NVIDIA GPUs in Azure http://connect.teradici.com/blog/teradici-joins-azure-big-compute-tea...

Seth Juarez talks to Chuck Weininger and Vance Morrison about the power of Azure Service Profiler. It can help you debug performance problems for many different Azure workloads, but they specifically demonstrate how to get it working for Azure Web Apps.

Scott digs in with Neil Gat and learns how to scale VM scales set to new heights! With all VMs configured the same, VM scale sets are designed to support true autoscale – no pre-provisioning of VMs is required – and as such makes it easier to build large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads.

Scott talks with Ross Gardler about how Azure Container Service can be used to scale your Docker and container-based work-loads easier than ever.

Scott learns from Neil Gat about Azure VM Scale Sets. VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set. Scale sets are well suited for building large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads – all of which are increasing in significance as cloud computing continues to evolve.