Azure Friday

Azure Quickstart Center gives you Microsoft recommended best practices to set up your Azure environment and create your first cloud project with confidence. Ayesha Ghaffar joins Donovan Brown to show how to get started with Azure using Azure Quickstart Center.[0:01:22] - DemoGet started with the Azure Quickstart CenterAzure Quickstart Center in the Microsoft GarageNew to Azure? Follow these easy s...

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure guides customers through their cloud journey, to use and adopt cloud services with confidence and in control. In this episode, Scott Bockheim shows Lara Rubbelke the tools, templates, assessments, and resources to implement the guidance from this framework in different stages and steps of the cloud journey. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azu...

The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure guides customers through their cloud journey, to use and adopt cloud services with confidence and in control. In this episode, Scott Bockheim explores the guidance and documentation of the framework with Lara Rubbelke to provide an overview of all the components and elements included. Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure overviewMicrosoft Cl...

Matías Quaranta (@ealsur) shows Donovan Brown (@donovanbrown) how to do bulk operations with the Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK to maximize throughput, and how to use the new Transactional Batch support to create atomic groups of operations.[0:02:21] - Demo: Batch API[0:06:32] - Demo: Bulk APIBulk import data to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account by using the .NET SDKIntroducing Bulk support in the [Azure...

Romit Girdhar, Microsoft (@romitgirdhar) and Chinmay Joshi,Oracle join Lara Rubbelke to explain how to interconnect Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud interoperability partnership enables you to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across both clouds, seamlessly connecting Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud ser...

Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) joins Donovan Brown (@donovanbrown) to show how to build a containerized React application and deploy it to production with Azure Kubernetes Service. He'll also show how to configure an Azure Active Directory service principal to enable Role-Based Authentication, which enables you to dynamically create and manage other Azure resources.[0:01:07] - DemoService principals with...

Dr. Ranveer Chandra gives Scott Hanselman an introduction to Azure FarmBeats at Microsoft Ignite 2019. FarmBeats is a business-to-business offering available in Azure Marketplace. It enables the aggregation of data from farms -- across sensors, drones, robots, satellites, and weather providers -- and generation of actionable insights using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) mod...

Azure Data Share enables organizations to share data simply, safely and with plenty of flexibility when it comes to data sources and modes of sharing. In this episode, Joanna Podgoetsky joins Donovan Brown to walks us through how organizations can share data with no data movement through a new capability which enables in-place sharing from Azure Data Explorer.[0:04:20] - DemoAzure Data Share docum...

Tim Sander joins Scott Hanselman to discuss composite indexes and correlated subqueries using the SQL API in Azure Cosmos DB. A Request Unit, or RU, is the measure of throughput in Azure Cosmos DB. Learn how to optimize queries with a composite index to decrease the RUs needed for a given query. They also showcases correlated subqueries and examples of how they can make it easier to query arrays i...

Anavi Nahar joins Donovan Brown to show how virtual network peering enables you to connect networks seamlessly in Azure Virtual Network. The virtual networks appear as one for connectivity purposes. The traffic between virtual machines uses the Microsoft backbone infrastructure. Like traffic between virtual machines in the same network, traffic is routed through Microsoft's private network only.[0...

Aung Oo joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Azure Ultra Disks. Ultra Disk is a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.[0:02:00] - DemoUsing Azure ultra disksAzure Disk Storage overviewAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Stora...

Jie Feng joins Scott Hanselman to show how to share SQL tables and views using Azure Data Share. Azure Data Share now supports snapshot-based sharing for SQL-based sources, including Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse. Data Providers can use Azure Data Share to share tables and views with their customers and partners in a governed, secure and simple way. Data Consumers have full flexibility...

Thomas Maurer joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can connect your Windows Servers on-premises to Azure hybrid services like Azure Site Recovery to protect your virtual machines or Azure Update Management to keep your servers up to date.[0:01:28] - DemoConnecting Windows Server to Azure hybrid servicesAzure Site Recovery overviewUpdate Management solution in AzureHow to configure Azure Hybrid Se...

Learn how you can publish your SaaS solution and start generating revenue by making it available to potential buyers on Microsoft AppSource and Azure Marketplace. Ercenk Keresteci joins Scott Hanselman to cover the technical details of integrating a solution with Microsoft's commercial marketplace, including how to use scripts for provisioning and de-provisioning a customer.[0:05:00] - DemoAzure M...

Christina Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show what's new in Azure Cognitive Services.  Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer—without requiring machine-learning expertise.  All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps.[0:02:00] - DemoAzure Cognitive Services overviewContainer support in Az...

Keiko Harada joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Prometheus to monitor containers in Azure Monitor.  Prometheus is a popular open source metric monitoring solution and is a part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation.  Customers who like the extensive metrics which Prometheus provides on Kubernetes also like how easy it is to use Azure Monitor for containers which provides fully managed, out of t...

Most of the time, your apps are running happily and healthily. However, when things go wrong, you can use Genie and Navigator in App Service Diagnostics to figure out what's wrong. Jen Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show how the App Service Diagnostics interactive interface (Genie) guides you intelligently through the self-troubleshooting experience. Navigator, enables you to find potentially breaki...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how wrangling data flows in Azure Data Factory empower you with a code-free, serverless environment that simplifies data preparation in the cloud and scales to any data size with no infrastructure management required. It uses the industry-leading Power Query data preparation technology (also used in Power Platform dataflows, Excel, and Power BI) to pre...

Container startup time is the price of admission, but startup time is also an inhibitor for many serverless scenarios. Steve Lasker joins Lara Rubbelke to show how Project Teleport eliminates the download and decompression of layers by directly mounting expanded layers, potentially unlocking many new scenarios.[0:02:13] - DemoAzure Container Registry Adds Teleportation blog postTeleport Preview si...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are rampant and it's not a question of if a business will be impacted but when. Anupam Vij shows Scott Hanselman how Azure DDoS Protection Standard can protect your applications against targeted DDoS attacks and why it is critical for every business running in Azure to use the service to enhance their security posture. If your protected applications are...

Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the actor model of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.[00:01:36] - DemoDapr - Distribu...

Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the core concepts of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.[00:02:19] - DemoDapr - Distri...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Gantt views to visualize your pipeline and activity runs. Look at the Gantt view per pipeline, or group by pipeline annotations/tags you create.[00:49] Demo Visually monitor Azure data factories (docs)Enhanced monitoring capabilities and tags/annotations in Azure Data Factory (Azure Friday)Azure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory d...

Using a bastion host can help limit threats such as port scanning and other types of malware targeting your VMs. Ashish Jain joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Bastion gives you secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines. Now you can securely access your VMs over SSL from the Azure portal and without exposing public IP addresses.[05:20] Demo Azure Bastion overviewAzure Ba...

Geoff Staneff joins Donovan Brown to show how Data Accelerator for Apache Spark simplifies everything from onboarding to streaming of big data. It offers a rich, easy-to-use experience for creating, editing, and managing Apache Spark jobs on Azure HDInsight while enabling the full power of the Apache Spark engine.[01:21] Demo Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator for Apache SparkData Accelerator...