Azure Friday (Audio)

Amar Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Confidential Computing protects data in use and helps you achieve data security and data privacy goals within a managed cloud environment. Confidential VM's protect VM-based workloads with memory encryption and code integrity for VM and container workloads. Attestation helps you remotely verify the entire VM is a hardware-based Trusted Execution E...

Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL enables developers to build scalable PostgreSQL apps. Kirill Gavrylyuk and Charles Feddersen join Scott Hanselman to explain Distributed SQL PostgreSQL in Azure Cosmos DB. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:12 - Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL demo 09:36 - Demo loading data from Azure Storage and sharding 15:34 - Demo creating a replica for reduced latency 21:56 - Wrap-...

Estefani Arroyo joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Azure Cosmos DB desktop tools for developing, querying, and testing your applications. The Azure Cosmos DB Linux Emulator provides a high-fidelity emulation of the Azure Cosmos DB service. The Azure Data Studio Cosmos DB API for Mongo DB extension enables you to connect to your Mongo resources and query your data using the mongo shell. C...

Going from your local development environment to the cloud can be challenging. Savannah Ostrowski joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Developer CLI (azd) uses a set of developer-friendly commands that map to key stages in your workflow and idiomatic application templates to accelerate the time it takes you to get started on Azure. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - Code to Cloud Journey...

Front-end web applications often call back-end APIs for data and services. Annina Keller joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Static Web Apps provides built-in serverless API endpoints via integration with Azure services, including Azure App Service, Azure API Management, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:18 - Simple demo 10:30 - Demo with OAuth and API...

Lakshmi Murthy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to build your enterprise data model using Azure Synapse database templates to add rich business context to your data and drive meaningful analytics. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Azure Synapse database templates 04:54 - Demo: Creating a lake database 10:35 - Demo: Customizing and querying 17:04 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Lake database t...

Elizabeth Barnitt joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demo GraphQL support in Azure API Management, which allows you to import, validate, secure, and augment GraphQL APIs in Azure. Azure API Management enables you to both govern your existing GraphQL servers and build one from scratch with Synthetic GraphQL, which allows you to combine your existing REST and SOAP endpoints into a single, easy to...

Managing concurrent access to a resource, be it a row, a table, or a single value, is easy if no one is trying to modify the underlying data. But what happens if someone changes data while someone else is reading it? Even better, what could happen if two or more users try to change the same data at the same time? Well, there are a couple of options. The easiest is to just ask everyone to queue up,...

Rong Zhang and Tats Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated Azure Kubernetes Services diagnostics experience. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:53 - Get the extension + connect to Azure 03:18 - Extension features 05:32 - AKS Periscope 06:47 - Navigational features 07:24 - Cluster properties 08:25 - Creating workflows 09:43 - Azure Serv...

Davide Mauri is back with Lara Rubbelke to discuss columnstore indexes. In a typical relational database data is stored per row. This means that all row columns are saved together, which is great in all those cases where you want to retrieve all the information related to a specific row. But what if you want to have all the data stored in a subset of columns but for all the rows? That would be com...

Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes extensibility model, which makes any Kubernetes cluster outside of Azure a target location for many Azure services. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:58 - Extensibility model 04:54 - Azure portal 09:20 - Demo, Part 1 16:30 - Demo, Part 2 17:50 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Arc landing zone accelerator for hybrid and m...

If you are familiar with the Event Sourcing and CQRS patterns, then you know that they are extremely powerful, but can be quite complex to implement correctly. Davide Mauri joins Lara Rubbelke to show temporal tables give you the same benefits without the related challenges. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:28 - Demo using temporal tables 06:11 - Demo using 'as of' 07:36 - Demo for a range of time...

Bruno Borges joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Java development with Microsoft. Like many of our customers, Microsoft is a Java shop with lots of systems that rely on Java and its ecosystem. We employ thousands of Java engineers, run millions of JVMs, and process terabytes of data every day, to deliver the services everyone loves. We also built tools and services specifically designed for Java d...

In recent years, developers pushed for relational databases to be more flexible and open to the many different formats (e.g., JSON, graph, and spatial) to store and manipulate data. Davide Mauri joins Lara Rubbelke to show how Azure SQL Database enables you to take advantage of the rock-solid foundation of relational databases with the flexibility offered by non-relational models. And best of all,...

John Downs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to design, architect, and build multitenant solutions on Azure. If you're building a SaaS product or another multitenant service, there's a lot to consider when you want to ensure high performance, tenant isolation, and managing deployments. We'll walk through some example SaaS architectures and see how Microsoft provides guidance to help you to buil...

In the first of a series of episodes about Azure SQL Database, Davide Mauri joins Lara Rubbelke to give an overview of Grouping Sets and Windowing Functions, which can make you, your solution, and your code much more efficient. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:01 - Discussion 03:58 - Grouping Sets 11:56 - Windowing Functions 25:11 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure SQL Database Azure SQL docume...

Tanya Janca joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the various security features within Azure that are cloud native and what that means for security professionals. Discussing the benefits of DDoS protection (and what DDoS is) will help you understand its value and when it's needed. We also discuss the added value of Azure Defender features such as JIT, FIM, and Application Adaptive Controls in preventin...

Henk Boelman joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how AI can help to create more accessible experiences with Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and Azure Media Services. They will look at the AI building blocks available in Azure and see how these building blocks can be applied. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:32 - Henk's demo environment using Jupyter notebooks 05:28 - Computer Vision...

John Stallo joins Scott Hanselman to introduce Azure’s new, fully managed load testing service that enables developers and testers to generate high-scale load and gain actionable insights to catch performance bottlenecks at scale. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:07 - Getting Started with Azure Load Testing 05:43 - Running a load test 08:54 - How did the application components behave? 15:00 - Wrap...

Learn how to use the new Azure Cosmos DB indexing metrics to improve query performance. Tim Sander shows Scott Hanselman how to obtain, interpret, and make changes based on the indexing metrics. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:23 - Default indexing policy 04:18 - Optimizing for write performance 07:23 - Index metrics 09:32 - Composite indexes 16:42 - Roadmap insights 18:00 - Wrap-up Recommended r...

Isaac Levin from Elastic joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Elastic Cloud on Azure. Elastic Cloud is an Elasticsearch and Kibana managed service - with solutions for enterprise search, observability, and security. Running Elastic on Azure enables you to take data from any source - reliably and securely, in any format - then search, analyze, and visualize that data in real time. Elastic on Azure user...

Matias Quaranta joins Scott Hanselman to show how the updated Azure Cosmos DB extension for Azure Functions uses the latest Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK to add support for Azure AD authentication. Dispense with connection strings required, improve performance, and get support for custom serialization. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:31 - Identity-based connections with managed identities 09:50 - Perf...

Kavitha Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demo Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which is jointly engineered, operated, and supported by Microsoft and Red Hat to provide an integrated support experience. There are no virtual machines to operate, and no patching is required. Master, infrastructure, and application nodes are patched, updated, and monitored on your behalf by Microsoft and Red Hat. Yo...

Simona Cotin shows Scott Hanselman how Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door enables faster page loads, enhanced security, and increased reliability for your global apps with no configuration or additional code required. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:38 - Overview 02:45 - Enabling enterprise-grade edge 04:03 - Reducing latency with points of presence 06:03 - Powered b...

April Edwards joins Scott Hanselman to show how delivering apps in a DevOps world also means shifting security left. To securely deliver our apps, organizations must harden their dev environments, while leveraging tooling to scan and proactively protect their repositories, ensuring continuous delivery is secure. Azure Friday Quiz Sweepstakes Watch the episode to the end and then submit your answer...