Azure Friday (Audio)

Join Donovan Brown & Ralph Squillace to learn about the open source tool chain that enables container-native, microservice-oriented app development and delivery in Kubernetes. They cover the challenges of adopting containers as a code delivery technology and some of the tools that help address them:Draft for containment and service compositionHelm for application deployment and managementBriga...

Kylie Liang shows Donovan Brown how to run Ansible playbooks on Azure using Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. She also demonstrates how to use the Ansible extension for VS Code to accelerate Ansible playbook development using auto-completion and code snippets, and then run it inside Docker or Cloud Shell. Ansible in Azure Documentation (docs)VS Code extension for A...

Shahrokh Mortazavi stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about Azure Notebooks, a free hosted Python/R/F# REPL for learning to program all the way to mastering Data Science. Azure NotebooksProject JupyterCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureNotebooks

Xiaokai He stops by to show Donovan Brown the rich Java support within VS Code, a free and open source editor, as well as how you can easily deploy your Spring Boot application to Azure Web App for Containers. For more information, see:   Java in VS Code (docs)Build Java Web Apps with VS Code (docs)todo-app-java-on-azure - Sample TODO app using Java on Azure (GitHub)Create a Free Account (Azure)Fo...

Even though Azure takes three copies of your virtual machines and stores them in Azure Storage, you still need to protect your data against ransomware, corruption, or accidental deletion. Kelly Anderson stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how simple it is to set up Azure Backup, how its built-in security features can protect your backup data from ransomware, and how easy it is to restore y...

Gaurav Malhotra shows Donovan Brown how you can now visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 and be more productive by getting pipelines up & running quickly without writing any code. For more information, see:ADF v2: Visual Tools enabled in public preview (blog)Azure Data Factory V2 Preview Documentation (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Fol...

Xiaokai He shows Donovan Brown how to quickly develop and deploy serverless functions to Azure, then go inside the black box and debug functions locally, as well as remotely in the cloud. For more information, see:Serverless Java Apps with VS Code (docs)Azure Functions Java developer guide (docs)Azure Functions (overview)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday 

Emily Lawton stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about the Azure Cosmos DB Spark Connector, which enables Azure Cosmos DB to act as an input source or output sink for Apache Spark jobs. For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB Spark WikiCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @emilymlawton

Ron Ortloff talks with Scott Hanselman about the new Azure SQL Data Warehouse compute optimized tier that enables you to analyze ever growing amounts of data more easily, and how the team used NVM Express caching for up to 100x better performance. Azure SQL Data Warehouse previews 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage (blog)Faster compute optimized performance tier for Azure SQL Data Wa...

Matt Wagner joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Advisor, your personalized cloud service for Azure best practices that helps you to improve availability, enhance protection, optimize performance of your Azure resources, and maximize the return on your IT budget. In this episode, you'll learn about the latest set of improvements to Advisor that enable you to attain a comprehensive view of Adv...

Christian Wade stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how to use Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging and query scale out. These features provide high scalability and monitoring for IT-owned "corporate BI" and are much easier to set up in Azure than on-premises. For more information, see:Introducing query replica scale-out for Azure Analysis Services (blog)Azure Analysis Servi...

Tommy Nguyen joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Billing in the Azure portal. If you're wondering: "Where do I find a copy of my invoice?" or "How does an Azure service affect my overall costs?" - these questions and more will be answered in this episode, which highlights features in the Azure portal to get cost and billing clarity. For more information, see:Prevent unexpected cha...

Raghav Mohan joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Apache Kafka on HDInsight, which added the open-source distributed streaming platform last year to complete a scalable, big data streaming scenario on Azure. The service has come a long way since - processing millions of events/sec, petabytes of data/day to power scenarios like Toyota's connected car, Office 365's clickstream analytics, fraud detect...

In this episode, Mani Ramaswamy shows Scott Hanselman how to use Jenkins for your CI/CD pipeline with Service Fabric and run your Jenkins build server directly on the Service Fabric cluster. The Service Fabric team uses Jenkins internally for testing on Linux, and you can learn about how it is configured. For more information, see:Use Jenkins to build and deploy your Linux applications (docs)Creat...

David Campbell joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Windows 10 IoT and how it enhances Azure IoT Device Management (DM) capabilities on Windows IoT, simplifying DM and aligning Azure DM with other Windows DM solutions. For more information, see: Windows 10 IoT Azure DM Blog postWindows 10 IoT Azure Device Management clientWindows 10 IoT Azure Device Provisioning Client Windows 10 IoTAzure IoT HubAzure...

Olivier Bloch joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure IoT and how it is more than just about connecting IoT devices and sending telemetry to the Cloud. They also talk about Azure IoT device topics such as twins, provisioning, and lifecycle management. For more information, see:Azure IoT HubAzure IoT MXChip starter kitAzure IoT Developer CenterAzure Friday: Windows IoT and Azure IoT Device Managemen...

Raj Ganapathy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new addition to Azure's resiliency offerings – Availability Zones. Azure Availability Zones are fault-isolated locations within an Azure region to help protect customers applications and data from datacenter-level failures with independent power, network, and cooling. For more information, see: Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency a...

In this episode, Sean McKenna shows Scott Hanselman the Open Service Broker for Azure, an easy way to connect applications running in platforms like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry to some of the most popular Azure services, using a standard, multi-cloud API.For more information, see:Open Service Broker API (org site)Open Service Broker for Azure project (GitHub)Kubernetes Service Catalog project (Gi...

Chris Pendleton joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Maps (Location Based Services), which is a portfolio of geospatial service APIs natively integrated into Azure that enables developers, enterprises, and ISVs to create location-aware apps and IoT, mobility, logistics, and asset tracking solutions. The portfolio currently comprises of services for Map Rendering, Routing, Search, Time Zones and...

Chris Gillum joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a new extension of Azure Functions known as Durable Functions. Durable Functions is a programming model for authoring stateful, reliable, and serverless function orchestrations using C# and async/await. For more information, see: Durable Functions overview (docs)Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions (GitHub repo)Durable Functions and Bin...

Amber Bhargava joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new Azure free account. The new Azure free account provides Azure customers US $200 credit for first 30 days to experiment with a combination of services. Now it also includes 12-months of popular free services and 25+ always free services to learn and explore Azure further. For more information, see:Create a Free Account (Azure)Azure Free Accoun...

Ahmed Elnably joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a sample project, Developer Finder, that was created to showcase how to use Web App for Containers in the context of a multi-tiered application. For more information, see:Azure App Services (demo app) Web App For ContainersCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @elnably

The new web modeling experience for Azure Analysis Service can supersize the models that you have built for Power BI. In this episode, Josh Caplan will show how you can take data models that were built inside the Power BI desktop and easily convert them to Azure Analysis Services models. You can then use all the Power of Azure Analysis Services to scale your model to hundreds or even thousands of...

Richard Li joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA) optimization for Azure CDN, and how it can be used in combination with standard CDN caching features to measurably improve the performance of web pages with dynamic content. For more information, see:Dynamic Site Acceleration via Azure CDN (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Fo...

Steve Ernst joins Scott Hanselman to introduce App Service diagnostics, which is the home for diagnosing and troubleshooting problems with your app. This intelligent service was built to diagnose many different problems and suggest targeted solutions for the customer. For more information, see: Announcing the general availability of Azure App Service diagnostics (blog)New App Service Support Cente...