Azure Friday

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can follow industry-leading best practices to do continuous integration and deployment for your Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows to multiple environments such as Dev, Test, Prod, and more. For more information:Continuous integration and deployment using Data Factory (Azure blog)Continuous integration an...

Aravind Krishna stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman and take a look at common design patterns for building highly scalable solutions with Azure Cosmos DB. We will talk a little bit about modeling data and how to choose an appropriate partition key. We then look at a few patterns like event sourcing, time series data, and patterns for addressing bottlenecks/hot spots for reads, writes, and storag...

Kelly Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Security Center, which offers built-in security management and threat protection for your cloud workloads. Azure Security Center helps you find & fix vulnerabilities, aids in blocking malicious access and alerts you when your resources are under attack. For more information:Azure Security Center documentation Azure Security blog Azure Secur...

Metaparticle is an experimental, cloud-native development environment for democratizing and simplifying the development of reliable distributed applications. It uses a code-first approach, so developers can describe the composite nature of their application with easy to apply patterns and practices to annotate their existing code. For more information, see:MetaparticleMetaparticle.io on GitHubMeta...

Mike Emard joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Files, which offers fully managed file shares in the cloud, and deep dive into the latest backup and restore capability in Azure Files. For more information:Introducing backup for Azure file shares (Azure blog)Overview of share snapshots for Azure Files (docs)Hybrid Storage with Azure File Sync (Azure Friday)Azure Files (overview)Create a free acco...

James Montemagno joins Scott Hanselman to show how powerful Azure services can be used with Visual Studio and Xamarin to create cloud-connected mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows, using one toolset and development language (C#) across front-end and back-end. For more information, see:Geo Contacts app source code on GitHubData & Cloud Services docs for Xamarin. FormsMobile apps using Xam...

Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console, which allows console access to Azure VMs. This allows you to connect and recover VMs which are in a stuck state due to OS or configuration issues. For more information:Azure's Virtual Machine Serial Console (docs)Announced at Ignite - Azure Compute: New features and roadmapCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow...

Nick Rycar from Chef stops by Azure Friday to chat with Donovan Brown about Habitat, a simple, flexible way to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications. Habitat makes it easier to develop and promote changes by enabling each instance of your application to continually and independently apply updates as soon as they're ready. For more information, see:Habitat (home)Habitat (docs)Habitat...

The Azure SDK for Go provides Go packages for managing and using Azure services using the Go language. Deploy your Go app to Azure Web Apps and take advantage of managed services, such as PostgreSQL, Storage, Identity, and more. For more information, see:Azure SDK for GoVanpool Manager sample applicationAzure for Go developers (docs)Azure SDK for Go SamplesCreate a Free Account (Azure) Follow @don...

Joey Aiello joins Donovan Brown to discuss PowerShell Core 6.0, a cross-platform, open-source edition of PowerShell based on .NET Core built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud. You'll also learn about how the upcoming release of OpenSSH for Windows and Windows Server will enable new ways to remotely manage your environments, as well as how PowerShell Core integrates with OpenSSH.F...

Alex Karcher joins Donovan Brown to discuss Azure Function Proxies, the serverless API toolbox. Proxies give you a truly serverless experience to manage your APIs with dynamic billing and scaling, and a super simple setup process. For more information, see:Azure Functions Proxies is now Generally Available (blog post)Work with Azure Functions Proxies (docs)Azure Functions samples (GitHub)Azure Fun...

Join Kirill Gavrylyuk and Scott Hanselman to learn about native support for Apache Cassandra API in Azure Cosmos DB with wire protocol level compatibility. This support ensures you can continue using your existing application and OSS tools with no code changes and gives you the flexibility to run your Cassandra apps fully managed with no vendor lock-in. Dear Cassandra Developers, welcome to Azure...

Kirill Gavrylyuk returns to Azure Friday to update Scott Hanselman on what's new in Azure Cosmos DB, such as the Cassandra API for applications that are written for Apache Cassandra, updates to the Azure Table storage API, the Apache Spark Connector, the Graph API, partitioned collections, 99.999% (five 9s) SLA, and more. Dear Cassandra Developers, welcome to Azure #CosmosDB!Introduction to Azure...

Join Donovan Brown & Ralph Squillace to learn about Brigade, the Kubernetes-native service that creates structured container pipelines from JavaScript functions, letting you "script" your cluster in reaction to events. You'll also learn about Kashti, the web dashboard that shows you the status of all your Brigade projects. Brigade - Event-driven scripting for KubernetesAzure/brigade...

Join Donovan Brown & Ralph Squillace to learn how to use Draft to kick start container-native development for Kubernetes applications. Draft lets you concentrate on your service code by removing the containment and service composition from most development work, which increases the speed of service development and improves the consistency of Dockerfiles & Helm charts. Draft - Streamlined K...

Join Donovan Brown & Ralph Squillace to learn about the open source tool chain that enables container-native, microservice-oriented app development and delivery in Kubernetes. They cover the challenges of adopting containers as a code delivery technology and some of the tools that help address them:Draft for containment and service compositionHelm for application deployment and managementBriga...

Kylie Liang shows Donovan Brown how to run Ansible playbooks on Azure using Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. She also demonstrates how to use the Ansible extension for VS Code to accelerate Ansible playbook development using auto-completion and code snippets, and then run it inside Docker or Cloud Shell. Ansible in Azure Documentation (docs)VS Code extension for A...

Shahrokh Mortazavi stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about Azure Notebooks, a free hosted Python/R/F# REPL for learning to program all the way to mastering Data Science. Azure NotebooksProject JupyterCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureNotebooks

Xiaokai He stops by to show Donovan Brown the rich Java support within VS Code, a free and open source editor, as well as how you can easily deploy your Spring Boot application to Azure Web App for Containers. For more information, see:   Java in VS Code (docs)Build Java Web Apps with VS Code (docs)todo-app-java-on-azure - Sample TODO app using Java on Azure (GitHub)Create a Free Account (Azure)Fo...

Even though Azure takes three copies of your virtual machines and stores them in Azure Storage, you still need to protect your data against ransomware, corruption, or accidental deletion. Kelly Anderson stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how simple it is to set up Azure Backup, how its built-in security features can protect your backup data from ransomware, and how easy it is to restore y...

Gaurav Malhotra shows Donovan Brown how you can now visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 and be more productive by getting pipelines up & running quickly without writing any code. For more information, see:ADF v2: Visual Tools enabled in public preview (blog)Azure Data Factory V2 Preview Documentation (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Fol...

Xiaokai He shows Donovan Brown how to quickly develop and deploy serverless functions to Azure, then go inside the black box and debug functions locally, as well as remotely in the cloud. For more information, see:Serverless Java Apps with VS Code (docs)Azure Functions Java developer guide (docs)Azure Functions (overview)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday 

Emily Lawton stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about the Azure Cosmos DB Spark Connector, which enables Azure Cosmos DB to act as an input source or output sink for Apache Spark jobs. For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB Spark WikiCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @emilymlawton

Ron Ortloff talks with Scott Hanselman about the new Azure SQL Data Warehouse compute optimized tier that enables you to analyze ever growing amounts of data more easily, and how the team used NVM Express caching for up to 100x better performance. Azure SQL Data Warehouse previews 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage (blog)Faster compute optimized performance tier for Azure SQL Data Wa...

Matt Wagner joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Advisor, your personalized cloud service for Azure best practices that helps you to improve availability, enhance protection, optimize performance of your Azure resources, and maximize the return on your IT budget. In this episode, you'll learn about the latest set of improvements to Advisor that enable you to attain a comprehensive view of Adv...