Azure Friday (Audio)

Emily Lawton joins Scott Hanselman to discuss what's new in Azure Cosmos DB's API for Mongo DB, including new preview features such as support for the aggregation pipeline and unique indexes. They discuss tips and tricks for importing large backups using MongoDB Tools. For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB: API for MongoDBAzure Cosmos DB: Import MongoDB Data  Create a Free Account (Azure)Follo...

Veljko Vasic shows Seth Juarez how Azure SQL Database uses built-in intelligence to continuously monitors database usage so that it can detect disruptive events that cause poor performance. Once detected, a detailed analysis is performed generating a diagnostic log with an intelligent assessment of the issue, which consists of a root cause analysis of the database performance issue and recommendat...

Veljko Vasic demos the built-in automatic tuning intelligence mechanism in Azure SQL Database to show Seth Juarez how it can automatically tune and improve query performance by dynamically adapting the database to your workload. Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database might be one of the most important features that you can enable on Azure SQL Database to optimize the performance of your queries. F...

Telmo Sampaio joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Building Blocks 2.0 (azbb), which is an open-source command line tool and set of Azure Resource Manager templates designed to simplify deployment of Azure resources. It enables you to use infrastructure as code in Azure without worrying about the complexity of ARM resources. For more information, see: Building Blocks (GitHub) Simplifying Resourc...

Gabe Monroy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Container Service (AKS), Microsoft's new managed Kubernetes service. Now you can easily manage your Kubernetes environment by simplifying the deployment, management, and operations activities without sacrificing portability. You gain all the benefits of Kubernetes without the complexity and operational overhead. For more information, see: Azure Co...

Steve Lasker joins Donovan Brown to explain Azure Container Registry (ACR) Geo-replication. With ACR, you can now manage your global Azure footprint as one resource, enabling network-close deployments of your Docker containers. With regionalized WebHooks, you can deploy regions as your images arrive. For more information, see: Azure Container Registry (overview) Geo-replication in Azure Container...

Anton Babadjanov joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new redesigned administrative UI for API Management. Also, see how it enables a design-first approach with the ability to produce simulated (mocked) API responses. For more information, see: API Management Documentation API Management Blog Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Klaas Langhout joins Scott Hanselman to show Azure File Sync for centralizing file services into Azure, which reduces the cost and complexity of managing islands of data while preserving existing app compatibility and performance. In addition, it provides multi-site access to the same data, tiering of less frequently used data off-premise, and integrated backup and rapid restoration. For more info...

Christina Compy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about exposing your internet-isolated apps with an Application Gateway. This enables you to securely host multi-tier applications on an Internal Load Balancer (ILB) App Service Environment (ASE) and only expose the front-end applications that you want to expose. For more information, see: Create and use an internal load balancer with an App Service env...

Pui Chee "PC" Chan joins Scott Hanselman to discuss native support for Jenkins in Azure. Our plugins make it easy for you to build your project using a container agent and then automate deployment from Jenkins to an Azure Container Service Kubernetes cluster. For more information, see: Announcing Deploy to Kubernetes (blog) Jenkins.io links: Azure Container agent Deploy to Kubernetes Dep...

Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the Azure Instance Metadata Service, which provides information about running virtual machine instances that you can use to manage and configure your virtual machines. Use the service to get information such as SKU, network configuration, and upcoming maintenance events. For more information, see: Azure Instance Metadata service (docs) Genera...

Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to check out the new Experimental cmdlets in Azure PowerShell. This new functionality comes directly from user feedback, which the Azure PowerShell team uses to provide improved functionality. Check out the new cmdlets shown here and try them yourself! For more information, see: Azure PowerShell (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @Azure...

Christina Compy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the recently relaunched App Service Hybrid Connections. This feature enables your apps in the App Service to reach resources on other networks. Those other networks can be in Azure, on-premises or networks in other cloud providers. For more information, see: Azure App Service Hybrid Connections (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHansel...

Hemant Mahawar joins Scott Hanselman to demo the PowerShell experience in Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. Now you have the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work. Azure drive (Azure:) enables you to discover and navigate all Azure resources like file system navigation and provides contextual capabilities such as resour...

In this episode, Mani Ramaswamy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Fabric on Linux, which recently became generally available as a container orchestrator. Many premier first-party services such as Azure SQL Database, Bing, Azure Cosmos DB, and EventHubs are all running on Service Fabric on Windows, and now the same technology is being made available worldwide on Linux. For more info...

Matthew Henderson does a demo for Scott Hanselman to show how simple it can be to build serverless apps that leverage bindings for Microsoft Graph (e.g., reading data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a OneDrive folder) to avoid writing laborious initialization and authentication code, all using Azure Functions. For more information, see: Microsoft Graph Azure Functions Azure Functions HTTP an...

Kirill Gavrylyuk shows Scott Hanselman an easy way to build planet-scale serverless apps in minutes using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions. Customers expect apps to offer event-driven, near real-time experiences. Now you can subscribe to changes in Azure Cosmos DB collections and trigger logic in real time while being globally-distributed, and without deploying or managing any servers. For more...

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database with limitless elastic scale. To take advantage of elastic scale, you first need to choose a partition key. Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott Hanselman about the choice of partition key, and how to use the new metrics charts to troubleshoot a poor partition key choice (e.g., "hot partitions"). For more information...

Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how HashiCorp Terraform provides an easy way to define and deploy cloud infrastructure using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). This custom language is easy to write and easy to understand, and Hariharan gives you the steps to start using Terraform with Azure. For more information, see: Install and configure Terraform to provision VMs an...

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about being able to get a code-level analysis of slow requests in production using the Application Insights profiler for Azure App Service. Dan shows Scott how to use the Application Insights Profiler to quickly get to the bottom of two different performance issues in an ASP.NET Web App. For more information, see: Application Insights Overview Profiling liv...

Ziv Rafalovich joins Scott Hanselman to talk about improvements to the planned maintenance experience in Azure, including better visibility and control of maintenance events that impact virtual machine availability. Learn how to create alerts, discover which virtual machines are scheduled for maintenance, and proactively start the maintenance using the Azure portal, REST API, Azure PowerShell, or...

Dushyant Gill joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Health. When issues in Azure services affect your business-critical resources, Azure Service Health notifies you and your teams, helps you understand the impacts of the issue, and keeps you updated as the issue is resolved. It also helps you prepare for planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resourc...

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how the Snapshot Debugger in Application Insights can help you identify the root cause of issues in your production environment without having to repro them locally. Dan shows how by adding the Microsoft. ApplicationInsights. SnapshotCollector NuGet package to your app, you can get view full-process snapshots containing local variables the moment exce...

Kirill Gavrylyuk shows Scott Hanselman a new way to try Azure Cosmos DB free of charge, no sign-up or credit card required. It's a perfect way to get to know Azure Cosmos DB better, without commitment. For more information, see: Try Cosmos DB Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft

Evgeny Ternovsky joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Log Analytics and its upgraded search platform, including a dedicated query experience and a powerful new query language. Already available in Application Insights, this upgrade unifies the analytics experience across Azure. For more information, see: What is Log Analytics (documentation) Analytics Query Language (documentation) Announcing...