Azure Friday

Christian Wade joins Scott Hanselman to show you how to unlock petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with a way that was not previously possible. Learn how to use the aggregations feature in Power BI to enable interactive analysis over big data. For more information:Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature Summary (Analytics)Aggregations in Power BI Desktop (Preview) docsMicrosoft Power BI - Interactive...

Michael Greene joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a new set of experiences for Configuration Management in Azure, and how anyone new to modern management can discover and learn new process more quickly than before. Jump To: [01:49] Demo Start For more information:Azure Automation State Configuration Overview (docs)Azure Automation overviewAzure Automation pricingAzure Automation roadmapCreate a free...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Data Factory visual tools, which enable you to iteratively create, configure, test, deploy, and monitor data integration pipelines. We took into account your feedback to enable functional, performance, and security improvements to the visual tools. Jump To: [01:41] Demo Start For more information:Enhance productivity using Azure Data Facto...

Jenny Hunter joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Automation, which has seen several new improvements including support for Python 2, the ability to run against local Linux machines, the ability to run against any Azure VM with no setup (Run Command), and native Azure alert integration. Jump To: [03:27] Demo Start For more information:Azure Automation - Cloud Automation Service overviewAzure Aut...

Did you know that Buffalo has plugins for Azure? In this episode, Martin Strobel joins Erik St. Martin to demo building a Go app with Buffalo and deploying it to Azure App Service. Jump To: [01:20] Demo Start For more information:Go on AzureAzure plugin for Buffalo GitHub repoBuffalo plugins listAzure for Go developers - Tutorials, API ReferenceCreate a free account (Azure)Go on Azure series:Part...

Messaging services are key components of all microservices-based architectures. David Justice (Sr. Software Engineer) joins Erik St. Martin to show you some of the options for messaging services on Azure, including demos on using them with Go apps. Jump To: [06:26] Demo Start For more information:Go on AzureAzure for Go developers - Tutorials, API ReferenceCreate a free account (Azure)Go on Azure ...

Joel Hendrix (Sr. Software Engineer) and Erik St. Martin walk you through the Azure SDK for Go, showing how you can build apps that interact with and manage Azure services. Jump To: [01:31] Demo Start  For more information:Go on AzureAzure SDK for Go GitHub repoInstall the Azure SDK for Go docsAzure for Go developers - Tutorials, API ReferenceDemo repo on GitHub (jhendrixMSFT/c9demo1)Create a free...

Josh Gavant (Sr. Program Manager) joins Erik St. Martin to talk about cloud-native Go apps. Azure offers a whole host of services that Go developers can use to build apps with strong security and scalability. For example, see how Josh implements strong authentication with Azure AD, adds caching with Redis Cache, stores any kind of data on Azure Storage, and sends messages and queues jobs with Serv...

Josh Gavant (Sr. Program Manager) joins Erik St. Martin to show you how to run your Go apps in a managed environment with Azure Web Apps. For larger applications, AKS offers a fully-managed Kubernetes cluster for any app and service. Jump To: [02:40] Demo Start For more information:Go on AzureAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS) overviewAzure App Service - Web Apps overviewAzure for Go developers - Tuto...

Cloud Developer Advocates Jessica Deen and Erik St. Martin show you how to get started with DevOps using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for Go developers. Learn how to use the code you already have on GitHub, connect it to VSTS, and then build CI/CD pipelines to deploy your Go apps to Kubernetes on Azure. You'll also learn how you can get started with DevOps Projects on Azure, which will take...

Ramya Achutha Rao (Sr. Software Engineer) joins Erik St. Martin to show you how to build Go apps with Visual Studio Code. She will be using the Go extension for VS Code which provides smart code completion, integrated debugging and a whole lot more. In the end, still using VS Code, she'll create a Docker container for the app that is ready to be pushed to the cloud. Jump To: [00:50] Demo Start For...

Ultan Kinahan joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Azure Stack is an Azure consistent cloud platform that you can place where you need it, regardless of connectivity. It provides several key advantages to your cloud strategy, edge/disconnected capabilities, addresses governance and sovereignty concerns, and the ability to run PaaS services on premises. Jump To: [09:36] Demo Start For more informat...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Data Factory (ADF) integration with Azure Monitor, which enables you to route your data factory metrics to Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. Get the Azure Data Factory Analytics Management Solution service pack from the Azure marketplace. NOTE  Throughout this episode there are multiple references to Operations Management Suite; however, this s...

Mark Jacobs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Microsoft's internal enterprise increases compliance and creates a more trusted cloud environment using the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure (AzSK). Learn how Microsoft's DevOps teams leverage this tool to continuously keep their cloud applications secure and how you can use the same tool to reduce risk in your environment. Jump To: [06:25] Demo Start Fo...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how you can associate a GitHub repository (public & enterprise) to your Azure Data Factory for collaboration, versioning, source control. Jump To: [00:35] Demo Start For more information, see:Azure Data Factory Visual tools now support GitHub integration (blog post)Visual authoring in Azure Data Factory - Author with GitHub integration (docs)Azure...

Thomas Alex joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how Microsoft uses Apache Kafka for HDInsight to power Siphon, a data ingestion service for internal use. Apache Kafka for HDInsight is an enterprise-grade, open-source, streaming ingestion service. Microsoft created Siphon as a highly available and reliable service to ingest massive amounts of data for processing in near real time. Siphon handles ingesti...

Anubhav Mishra (Developer Advocate, HashiCorp), joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to use HashiCorp Terraform to create & manage Kubernetes clusters in Azure using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Mishra further explains the benefits of using Terraform to provision Azure infrastructure and demonstrates how to configure a Kubernetes cluster on AKS.Jump To: [01:52] Demo Start For more informati...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how you can operationalize Jars and Python scripts running on Azure Databricks as an activity step in a Data Factory pipeline. Jump To: [01:55] Demo Start For more information:Transform data by running a Jar activity in Azure Databricks docsTransform data by running a Python activity in Azure Databricks docsAzure Databricks overviewAzure Data Factory...

Murali Krishnaprasad joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss Interactive Query (also called Hive LLAP, or Low Latency Analytical Processing, or Live Long and Process), which is an Azure HDInsight cluster type. Interactive Query supports in-memory caching, which makes Hive queries super-fast and interactive. See how to use HDInsight Interactive Query to analyze extremely large datasets (~100TB) in common fi...

Kylie Liang joins Lara Rubbelke to demo how to use Ansible, an open-source, simple IT automation engine for automating cloud provisioning, configuration management and application deployments on Azure. Kylie also shares the roadmap for Ansible on Azure. Jump To:[00:15]  Demo Start For more information:Ansible in Azure Documentation (docs)Ansible Playbook Samples for Azure (GitHub)Ansible modules (...

Jean-Sébastien Brunner joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss new features that enable you to implement the intelligent cloud, intelligent edge vision for streaming analytics: Stream Analytics running real-time analytics with custom code on IoT Edge. We also discuss substreams, which is a new time management feature for independently processing the timeline of each device (very useful for an IoT scenario)...

Steve Lasker joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss ACR Build, a cloud-native container build solution enabling pre-check, git commit and base image update docker builds for OS and framework patching.  Jump To:[03:18] Demo Start For more information:  Automate OS and framework patching with ACR Build (docs)Demo 42 sample (GitHub)Azure Container Registry (product info)Azure Container Registry (pricing)Azur...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Event-driven architecture (EDA), which is a common data integration pattern that involves production, detection, consumption, and reaction to events. Learn how you can do event-based data integration using Azure Data Factory. Jump To:[01:53] Demo Start For more information:Event trigger-based data integration with Azure Data Factory (blog post)Creat...

Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to show the new Azure Cloud Shell editor. Since its launch, Cloud Shell included a variety of editors (vi, emacs, and nano) for editing files. In collaboration with the Visual Studio Code team and their open-source Monaco project, the same web standards-based editor that powers Visual Studio Code is now integrated directly into Cloud Shell. Jump To:[02:05] Demo Sta...

Chacko Daniel joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Service Fabric Mesh, which offers the same reliability, mission-critical performance and scale customers get with Service Fabric, but no more overhead of cluster management and patching operations. Service Fabric Mesh supports both Windows and Linux containers allowing you to develop with any programming language and framework of your choice. Ju...