Azure Friday (Audio)

David Ebbo has created an amazing tool at https://resources.azure.com. You can explore the RESTful APIs that Azure exposes in this rich tree view! A fantastic resource for developers, you can see generated Powershell, Documentation, even POST to a live API from within the browser!

Moinak Bandyopadhyay stops by Azure Friday to show that Azure in fact has rich Billing and Rate Card APIs! In fact, the same Azure Resource Manager APIs that the Azure Portal uses can be used by you in your own applications. If you're a small organization or a large one, you can get detailed usage and billing data directly from Azure and keep track of your bills. Tag resources and control usage da...

Matthew Henderson shows Scott the open source Field Engineer" sample application that shows how to create Azure Mobile Applications. We'll go through how TableControllers support ASP.NET MVC Applications and Web APIs, and how you can consume data from applications on your mobile device.

There's a lot more to Azure Logic Apps than just a nice visual editor. There's a whole JSON-based language grammar in this episode of Azure Friday Jeff Hollan explains the internals of Logic Apps and gives us the tools to explore more.

Jeff Hollan stops by Azure Friday and he's brought a Raspberry Pi. Jeff shows Scott how to turn on his sprinklers using a Raspberry Pi and the automation power of your own Logic App running in Azure App Service.

Guang Yang continues to educate Scott on Azure API Apps. In this episode, we add authentication and an understanding of identity to an Azure API App.

In this episode Brady Gaster schools Scott on how to customize the "Swagger" descriptive metadata format for Web APIs. You'll be able to craft your Web APIs and how they present themselves to customers with some of these advanced techniques within ASP.NET Web API.

Brady extends on his Swagger 101 talk and takes an existing Azure API App and plugs it into Azure API Management. Once APIM (API Management) knows about our app, we get a whole world of reach analytics as well as new powers like subscriber management and much more.

Brady Gaster comes by Azure Friday and explains "Swagger" to Scott. Swagger is kind of like WSDL for RESTful Web Services. If you've got a Web API running in the cloud, you'll want to know about Swagger. Azure API Apps speak Swagger at their core. We'll use Swagger AND Swashbuckle to light up some Web APIs!

Kirill Gavrylyuk comes to Azure Friday to show the latest Azure App Service updates as of August of 2015 and beyond. Mobile Services features are now integrated into Azure App Service and are available to subscribers are at no additional cost! We'll see how to add Push Notifications to a Web Site running in Azure and push down to an iPad in this episode. And all the code is on GitHub!

Sunitha Muthukrishna comes by Azure Friday to show Scott how to do sophisticated staged WordPress Deployments on the Azure Cloud.

Guang Yang visits Azure Friday to talk to Scott about Azure API Apps. How can you host your Web API in the Azure Cloud? Once you do have an API App, what kinds of features does it get over a Web Application?

Adarsh Solanki joins the whole to how you can use Azure Media Services and Azure Media Services Explorer to create a Microsoft Hyperlapse video. Hyperlapse takes time-lapse videos and amazingly smoothes them out to create a powerful visual experience!

Scott talks to Mark Fussell about Azure Service Fabric and the Actor Programming Model. Mark demystifies the Actor Model and explains how it relates to Service Fabric. Service Fabric offers both low level and high level APIs so you can choose how you want to attack a problem. We also chat about open source projects like Akka. NET

Today Amit Bapat introduces Scott to Azure Key Vault. With Azure Key Vault, you can encrypt keys and small secrets like passwords using keys stored in hardware security modules (HSMs). It's cloud-based, hardware-based secret management for Microsoft Azure!

Scott talks to Chacko Daniel about the lifecycle of an Azure Service Fabric Application. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. When you update those applications on a live, running site, what happens? Chacko brings an amazing demo and upd...

Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. Where do Transactions fit in? How can Services scale AND be reliable?

Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. How do apps live, work, and scale beyond just "VMs in the cloud" and "Web Apps in the cloud." In this conceptual talk,...

Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a great new feature that lets you performance test your Azure Web Application directly from the Azure Portal! From the Tools menu of an Azure Web Application, we're able to launch a performance test and ensure that our Staging Site can keep up with a production load. Later we can swap our staging and production and test again! Be sure to ch...

Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a Performance Testing your Azure Web Apps. Is this video we use Visual Studio Enterprise and spin up a sophisticated load test that includes multiple kinds of users (light browsers vs. a serious power user). We use the power of Azure and Visual Studio Online to push massive load than you could from your local machine and we manage it all fr...

After the team's success of how-old.net, Mat Velloso decided to create twinsornot.net just to see how easy it would be! In this episode he shares the code with Scott, and with you on GitHub! You'll see how you can call APIs like the Face API and many others in the Azure Marketplace. We'll also see how the site scales and how easy it was to add analytics as well.

Scott talks to Corom Thompson from Azure Machine Learning. In just minutes Corom adds Machine Learning intelligence to a chat app, adding emoji based on a sentiment analysis of the text!

Scott talks about the Microsoft Azure CDN Updates for July 2015 with Anton Kucer. Country filtering support, great reporting features, and more this month!

This week Scott talks to David Justice about the open source tool AutoRest. AutoRest generates client side SDKs in a number of languages using a Web API's (or an Azure API App's) swagger endpoint. Consume from any language and produce from (almost) any language with this powerful open source tool.

Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This second episode talks about how JSON Web Tokens work and shows some of the online tools you'll use to express policies and then apply them with a Policy Definition.