Azure Friday

Azure Redis Cache adds new administration options which allows you to test your application for connection resiliency in case of a failure and also schedule updates to Azure Redis Cache. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-administration/

Azure introduces a new UX for Azure WebJobs with Seth and Chris.

Pranav and Seth go in depth about Redis Cache and improving security.

In this video we will look at some of the best practices on how should you pick the right Redis Cache offering for your use case. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-faq/

Redis clustering gives you maximum scale and throughput. Azure Redis Cache offers Redis cluster as implemented in Redis. In Azure, Redis cluster is offered as a primary/replica model where each shard has a primary/replica pair with replication where the replication is managed by Azure Redis Cache service. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-how-to-premium-clustering/ htt...

How to get started with Akamai on Azure CDN, our newest provider, using both the Azure portal and a Powershell script. We explore the features and options in setting up an endpoint, and look at reasons for using multiple CDN providers. The Cedexis site mentioned here.

At Azure Support, our aim is to help you in your cloud journey, all the way from initial experimentation to running production workloads on Azure with confidence. Software fails, hardware breaks and you can run into issues when trying new things. That's why it's important that you're able to diagnose and resolve issues quickly. To support those efforts, the Azure Support team is pleased to share f...

Den Delimarsky shows how to quickly build a Chrome app that will leverage Azure Notification Hubs for push notifications within the browser. You can follow the official tutorial.

Den Delimarsky shows how to use Azure Notification Hubs to deliver push notifications to an Android application. You can follow the official tutorial and download the sample code on GitHub.

Den Delimarsky shows how to use Azure Notification Hubs from a Xamarin. Android application. You can follow the official tutorial.

Microsoft Azure will be offering state of the art GPU visualization infrastructure and GPU compute infrastructure for various different scenarios like gaming, streaming, transcoding, machine learning, visualized CAD applications and many more other workloads that utilize GPUs. Relevant Links: Introduction to NVIDIA GPUs in Azure http://connect.teradici.com/blog/teradici-joins-azure-big-compute-tea...

Seth Juarez talks to Chuck Weininger and Vance Morrison about the power of Azure Service Profiler. It can help you debug performance problems for many different Azure workloads, but they specifically demonstrate how to get it working for Azure Web Apps.

Scott digs in with Neil Gat and learns how to scale VM scales set to new heights! With all VMs configured the same, VM scale sets are designed to support true autoscale – no pre-provisioning of VMs is required – and as such makes it easier to build large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads.

Scott talks with Ross Gardler about how Azure Container Service can be used to scale your Docker and container-based work-loads easier than ever.

Scott learns from Neil Gat about Azure VM Scale Sets. VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set. Scale sets are well suited for building large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads – all of which are increasing in significance as cloud computing continues to evolve.

Scott talks to Gaurav Malhotra about how Azure Data Factory's tools have improved and now make the monitoring and management of Big Data Pipelines easier than ever. He also demos how Data Factory is used with How-old.net!

Scott talks to Ross Gardler about using Azure Container Service with Docker and the Docker command line. Ross builds, deploys, and scales dozens of machines with in Azure all using Docker and the Azure Container Service.

Scott talks to Azure Developer Aarthi Saravanakumar about the new Azure Web Apps Local Cache feature! How does local cache work and how does it change the behavior of your Web Apps and how they load, run, and write to disk?

Scott talks to Injy Zarif about how you can manage the Azure CDN from inside the new Azure Portal. There's a surprisingly large number of features and configuration options that you can now manage from the portal to make sure your CDN works the way you want!

Scott sits down with Kevin Zhang from the Azure CDN team to talk about how developers can get granular control over the Azure CDN with their SDK and developer tools.

Scott talks to Ross Gardler about the new Azure Container Service! Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration.

With Azure Security Center, you get a central view of the security state of all of your Azure resources. At a glance, verify that the appropriate security controls are in place and configured correctly. Scott talks to Sarah Fender who explains how Security Center integrates Threat Detection.

Scott talks to Daria Grigoriu from the App Service team about the new Azure App Service Advisor. There's a lot of things you need to monitor when managing your App Service, and the App Service Advisor will give you live recommendations in the Portal for resource exhaustion! It will give you a heads up for conditions related to CPU, Memory, and Connections!

Scott talks to Josh Caplan about the preview of Microsoft Power BI Embedded. A new Azure service which allows app developers to embed live interactive reports into their applications.

With Azure Security Center, you get a central view of the security state of all of your Azure resources. At a glance, verify that the appropriate security controls are in place and configured correctly. Scott talks to Sara Fender who explains it all!