Azure Friday

Tom Kerkhove joins Scott Hanselman for a hands-on experience to demonstrate how enterprises can make the transition to API-first architectures and microservices in a hybrid, multicloud world with the self-hosted gateway in Azure API Management. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Concepts 06:38 - Demo setup 10:46 - Demo self-hosted gateway 23:09 - Wrap-up Recommended resources API gateway in Azu...

Harold Campos joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Logic Apps to build native integration solutions for mainframes and midranges, including IBM DB2, Host Files, CICS, IMS, MQ, 3270 systems, and many more. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of mainframes and midranges 03:21 - Mainframe modernization 04:28 - Azure Logic Apps for legacy modernization 07:24 - Demo: Az...

Ben Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to walk through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights, which is a native monitoring solution that gives you visibility into connection characteristics and optimization opportunities for your AVD environment. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Macro and micro analysis 01:33 - Overview tab 03:33 - Connection Diagnostics tab 04:44 - Connection Performance tab 05:37...

Liam Cavanagh joins Scott Hanselman to explain vector search in Azure Cognitive Search. Vector search is a method of searching for information within various data types, including image, audio, text, video, and more. It determines search results based on the similarity of numerical representations of data, called vector embeddings. Unlike keyword matching, vector search compares the vector represe...

Olivia Al Joundi and Sudhanva Huruli join Scott Hanselman to discuss the recently announced Azure Linux for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Linux is Microsoft's Linux distribution and is Generally Available for use as an OS option in AKS. It provides added security, performance, and quality benefits for your Linux based Kubernetes workloads. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Why Azure Li...

Rong Zhang and Tatsat Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the latest updates for the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated developer experience with Azure Kubernetes Services. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Overview with Rong 02:30 - Demo with Tats 11:22 - Content to get started 12:45 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Extension for Visu...

Sean Noyes, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect from Redis, joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the latest advancements in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise. Developers can enhance their applications with efficient index searching and global backups for cached data, all while reducing costs. Learn more about these new capabilities, including Active-Active, Persistence & CMK, Reserved Pricing, and Red...

Parikshit Savjani joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the evolution of Azure Database for MySQL, an open-source MySQL database on Azure. The conversation focuses on the journey from the Single Server deployment model to the new and improved Flexible Server offering, which represents a fully managed MySQL database-as-a-service (PaaS or DBaaS) running on Azure. Learn all about Azure Database for MySQL...

Davide Mauri and Thomas Gauvin join Scott Hanselman to show how building a full-stack or JAMstack solution has never been so easy. Using Azure Static Web apps and the newly released Data API builder (also available as an open-source project), you can add REST and GraphQL APIs to your database in a minute, including pagination, sorting, filtering, authentication, and authorization. Chapters 00:00 -...

Simplify your Kubernetes development process with automated deployments for AKS powered by Draft. With just a few clicks, automated deployments take care of the tedious work of containerization so that you can focus on bringing your app to life. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, automated deployments make it easy to run your app on AKS. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:44 -...

Rory Preddy joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate how to develop Java applications on Azure using a variety of tools and services. He shows how to use Visual Studio Code (VS Code), to write and debug Java code. He shows how to use GitHub Codespaces, a cloud-based development environment, to write and test your code directly in the browser. Finally, he also demonstrates how to use Azure Container Ap...

Tulika Chaudharie joins Scott Hanselman to introduce and demonstrate the power of WordPress on Azure App Service. See how easy it is to deploy and manage your WordPress sites, running on the familiar Azure App Service and using Microsoft's MySQL flexible server service for your content and data. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:53 - WordPress on App Service setup - Basics 02:28 - WordPress on App...

Adina Trufinescu joins Scott to introduce and demonstrate Azure Cognitive Service for Vision and the next-generation computer vision capabilities with Project Florence. The improved Vision Services enables developers to create innovative, market-ready, responsible applications. Customers can seamlessly digitize, analyze, and connect their data to natural language interactions, unlocking powerful i...

We recently announced support for Next.js Hybrid Rendering scenarios: Server-Side Rendering and Incremental Static Regeneration, which add to Static Generation (SSG) and client-side rendering. In this episode, Reshmi Sriram joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate hybrid rendering in Next.js apps using Azure Static Web Apps (SWA) and get the best of both worlds! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - P...

Mark Kromer and Abhishek Narain join Scott Hanselman to talk about two new capabilities in Azure Data Factory: Change Data Capture (CDC) and Managed Airflow. Change Data Capture in Azure Data Factory automatically detects data changes at the source without requiring complex designing or coding. Managed Airflow in Azure Data Factory is a managed orchestration service for Apache Airflow that simplif...

Did you know that Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available as a managed service not just in Azure, but also at the edge? Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can also deploy it on Windows IoT operating system. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - AKS hybrid options on Windows 03:20 - Exploring AKS Edge Essentials 05:00 - Deploy as code 06:50 - Sample application 17:07 - git re...

Hansjoerg Scherer joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to deploy your mission-critical workload in an Azure landing zone. For enterprises, a mission critical workload is expected to integrate with resources owned by centralized platform team. They control and govern the shared infrastructure for the entire organization. Connectivity and governance controls influence where and how the application i...

Gavin Aguiar and Shreya Batra join Scott Hanselman to discuss the v2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python, which provides an Azure Functions development experience that is more familiar to Python developers. Key features include triggers and bindings declared as decorators, a simplified folder structure, and support through easy-to-reference documentation. Chapters 00:00 - Introducti...

Sebastian Bader joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use health modeling to minimize downtime of your mission-critical workloads on Azure. With health modeling, you don't only see the health status of the entire system, you also see the dependencies between your components and an intuitive indication of degraded components. See exactly where to start your investigations to quickly find the ro...

Davide Mauri joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a recently announced feature of Azure SQL DB that makes integration with REST APIs incredibly easy. A new system function enables Azure SQL DB to call any HTTP REST API securely: call an Azure Function, send a message to Event Hub, execute a DAX query in Power BI, enrich data with Cognitive Services, etc. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:15 - Backgroun...

It's crucial to test recent changes before rolling them out to production, especially for mission-critical workloads. You want to be sure that the system is resilient after the latest code update. Combined with load testing, you can be confident that the system will maintain the expected performance. Heyko Oelrichs and Martin Šimiček join Scott Hanselman to show how integrating automated tests ear...

The cloud costs money and you want to control that. Barry 'Azure Barry' Luijbregts and Scott Hanselman cover what things cost money in the cloud, how to analyze and track costs, and practical tips to reduce costs to help manage your cloud spending. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - What costs money in the cloud? 06:43 - Managing costs 12:23 - Reporting costs 15:14 - Reducing costs 25:09 - Wrap...

Mainframe and midrange systems have been at the core of many organizations for their mission-critical workloads. Cristina Potra joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how these systems can be migrated to Azure with the migration frameworks, partners, and expertise. Learn about modernization complexities, strategies, and documentation to cater to every unique customer's needs. Chapters 00:00 - Introdu...

Have you ever tried to deploy to Azure with ARM templates, but found them too difficult or overwhelming to learn? Alex Frankel joins Scott Hanselman to show how Bicep—an abstraction on top of ARM templates—gives you all the same power and flexibility, but in a modern, safe, declarative language. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:30 - Demo - a Bicep file from scratch 16:15 - Demo - transpiling with...

Drew Skwiers-Koballa shows Scott Hanselman a new option for developing with Azure SQL Database: The Azure SQL Database emulator, which is a containerized database for a desktop dev experience. Use your favorite client OS and dev tools for cloud development without the cloud. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:54 - Modern microservices-demo application overview 04:10 - Database Projects and Integrati...