Azure Friday (Audio)

Lisa Cohen joins Scott Hanselman to explain how Microsoft uses data science to help Azure customers. Learn about content, programs, and services to guide you on your cloud journey while getting a glimpse behind the scenes into how data drives product investments.[0:00:00]– Opening[0:00:25]– Introduction[0:03:10]– Azure Quickstart Center for early success[0:04:07]– Azure portal improvements and the...

Azure VMware Solution delivers a VMware environment as a service, which enables you to run native VMware workloads on Azure.  Shannon Kuehn shows Scott Hanselman the seamless experience to migrate VMs directly from on-premises to Azure.[0:00:23]– Introduction[0:01:44]– Background[0:04:10]– Architecture[0:05:18]– Demo[0:15:02]– Wrap-upAzure VMware Solution overviewAzure VMware Solution documentatio...

Develop web applications with real-time messaging using Azure Web PubSub, a fully managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.  David Fowler and Liangying Wei join Scott Hanselman to show how to build real time applications with WebSockets and Azure Web PubSub.[0:00:23]– Introduction[0:05:55]– Live chat demo[0:12:52]– Collaborative whiteboard demo[0:13:41]– Using with ngrok and...

Wee Hyong Tok joins Scott Hanselman to provide an Azure Data Factory update with several members of the Azure Data Factory engineering team.[0:00:22]– Intro[0:02:48]– Using Azure Data Factory and Azure Purview for data governance and data integration (Linda Wang)[0:16:37]– Fast startup time to data flow compute clusters (Mark Kromer)[0:31:46]– CI/CD improvements with Azure Data Factory (Abhishek N...

Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to provide another Azure Cosmos DB update with several members of the Azure Cosmos DB engineering team.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:20]– MongoDB 4.0 (Gahl Levy)[0:12:30]– Azure Cosmos DB notebooks (Tanuj Mittal)[0:22:43]– Continuous backups (Govind Kanshi)[0:31:25]– Wrap-upAzure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB (4.0 server version): supported features and syntaxUp...

Ramya Oruganti shows Scott Hanselman how much faster and easier it is to provision Confluent Cloud resources directly from Azure.  Ramya also shows a real-time search use case demo that leverages Azure Database for MySQL, RediSearch, Azure Spring Cloud, and Confluent Cloud on Azure.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:03]– Background[0:05:06]– Demo: Provisioning Confluent Cloud from Azure [0:09:27]– Demo:...

Paul DeCarlo shows Scott Hanselman how Azure IoT Edge enables you to deploy cloud intelligence locally on edge devices.  By moving certain workloads to the edge of your network, your devices spend less time communicating with the cloud, can react more quickly to local changes, and operate reliably even in extended offline periods.  In this example, Paul uses IoT Edge with Cognitive Services Contai...

Sujay Talasila joins Scott Hanselman to discuss various scenarios and benefits of Azure Resource Mover for moving your resources across regions using a seamless unified experience.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:35]– Demo: Moving resources across regions[0:11:46]– Demo: Change configuration during move[0:15:57]– Discussion[0:18:00]– Wrap-upAzure Resource Mover overviewAzure Resource Mover docsAzure R...

Klaas Langhout shows Scott Hanselman how to use Azure Blob Storage for a variety of cloud workloads while optimizing costs related to controlling capacity and tier, Premium tier for transaction cost savings, choosing the right redundancy, and routing preference.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:52]– Presentation - overview[0:02:42]– General Q&A [0:09:32]– Presentation - cost drivers[0:13:25]– Discu...

Using Networks Insights to view health, metrics, alerts, and signals from all network monitoring tools in one place, Dalan Mendonca shows Scott Hanselman that there's no need to scramble across tools to troubleshoot your network issues in Azure.[0:00:00]– Intro to Network Insights[0:04:30]– Network health tab[0:08:48]– Connectivity tab[0:10:14]– Traffic tab[0:10:49]– Discussion [0:12:58]– Wrap-upA...

Khaled Zayed joins Scott Hanselman to show how to troubleshoot availability, performance, and policy issues in your API Management service using API Management Diagnostics.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:03:43]– Demo: Troubleshooting Availability and Performance[0:07:49]– Demo: Troubleshooting Gateway Performance[0:11:59]– Demo: Troubleshooting API Policies[0:13:54]– Wrap-upAzure API Management Diagnost...

Mike Hall shows Scott Hanselman how his team built a self-balancing robot using Azure Sphere and Azure RTOS that can be controlled and updated remotely from Azure IoT Central. In addition, the robot supports deferred updates for the OS and applications, which ensures the robot is in a safe position before initiating an update.[0:00:00]– Introduction [0:02:30]– Azure Sphere, Azure RTOS, and embedde...

Jose Portugal joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Azure Advisor to optimize your Azure workload usage, lower costs, increase efficiency, and improve security.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:27]– Demo: Azure Advisor[0:06:30]– Demo: Alerts[0:07:06]– Demo: Recommendation digests[0:08:43]– Demo: Advisor Score[0:12:42]– Discussion and wrap-upIntroduction to Azure AdvisorGet started with Azure Advisor...

Irene Huang joins Scott Hanselman to show him Cross-region Load Balancer, which recently became available for Public Preview. Cross-region Load Balancer is a Public layer-4 network load balancer serving as a single point of contact for global traffic. It provides efficient routing by leveraging Microsoft's global backbone network and geo-proximity load balancing algorithm. You can build regional r...

Azure Orbital is a fully managed cloud-based ground station as a service that enables you to communicate with your spacecraft or satellite constellations, downlink and uplink data, process your data in the cloud, chain services with Azure services in unique scenarios, and generate products for your customers. Hrishi Shelar joins Scott Hanselman on his birthday to discuss Azure Orbital and how it c...

Azure Container Instances (ACI) allow for a quick, simple, and cost effective way to run serverless containers in production. ACI is generally available and is for hosting serverless containerized workloads, including ETL pipelines, serverless batch jobs, and API microservices. Come hang out with Scott Hanselman and Jessica Deen as we learn about ACI, GitHub Actions, and container best practices.[...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show him what's new in Azure Purview since it was released in public preview in December 2020. Azure Purview is a unified data governance service that helps you manage and govern your on-premises, multicloud, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) data. Easily create a holistic, up-to-date map of your data landscape with automated data discovery, sensitive data c...

David Justo joins Scott Hanselman to discuss durable functions in Python, which is an extension of Azure Functions for writing stateful functions in a serverless compute environment. The extension is already available for C# and JavaScript and is now available for Python.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:38]– Overview of durable functions and patterns[0:07:13]– A few demos[0:16:41]– Discussion and wrap...

Knowing how your application is doing is vital to keep your users happy. In Azure, there are many services that can help you with this. In this episode, Azure Barry shows Scott Hanselman how to choose the right Azure service to monitor your application.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:59]– Options for Monitoring Applications in Azure[0:04:04]– Questions to Ask[0:05:13]– Azure Application Insights[0:08...

Friends don't let friends right-click deploy. Azure provides many ways to deploy your application. In this episode, Azure Barry shows Scott Hanselman how to choose the right Azure service with which to deploy and test your app.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:23]– Continuous Integration and Delivery[0:05:37]– Options for Deploying and Testing in Azure[0:07:22]– Deploying your app: Questions to Ask[0:0...

Yun Jung Choi shows Scott Hanselman how to use AKS Diagnostics and AKS Periscope to troubleshoot issues on your AKS cluster. Use AKS Diagnostics to identify problems and get actionable recommendations on how to resolve AKS cluster issues. Run AKS Periscope in VS Code to easily collect and export node and pod level logs on your AKS cluster. [0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:48]– AKS Diagnostics and demo...

Do you want to scale your workloads on Kubernetes without having to worry about the details? Do you want to run Azure Functions anywhere and easily scale it yourself? Tom Kerkhove shows Scott Hanselman how Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) makes application autoscaling dead simple.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:10]– Presentation[0:07:57]– Demo[0:17:45]– Discussion and wrap-upKubernetes Even...

The Azure portal is the single pane of glass where you can create, monitor, manage and operate hundreds of Azure services. In this episode, Leon Welicki shows Scott Hanselman some of the core interactions in the portal that enable you to create, find, and manage instances of any resource type. Learn a few tips and apply them across Azure.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:37]– Azure homepage[0:03:45]– F...

Ilse Terrazas Ortega joins Scott Hanselman to show you how to take advantage of the Azure mobile app to monitor and manage your Azure environment. From Azure alerts to Cloud Shell, this powerful tool will help you take control of your environment right from the convenience of your phone.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:55]– Four tenets of the Azure mobile app[0:02:45]– Demo: Azure mobile app[0:07:30]–...

Thomas Maurer joins Scott Hanselman to show how developers can be more collaborative in developing, deploying, and managing applications across multiple environments and clouds. Build and deploy a truly consistent app experience everywhere in your hybrid cloud using your existing DevOps pipelines, Kubernetes manifests, and Helm Charts – as well as your choice of tools. Azure Arc is integrated with...