Azure Friday

Scott Hanselman talks with Kirill Gavrylyuk about the new Azure App Service Mobile Apps service. He'll cover how Mobile Services can be used to build mobile apps for employees, partners, and customers on any device and / or extend existing web apps with mobile capabilities.

Scott Hanselman talks with Scott Hunter about the new Azure App Service API Apps. Scott Hunter will share how this new service helps developers build and consume Cloud APIs and participate in the API economy as well as leverage APIs and connectors as a building block for creating integrated web and mobile apps.

Anand Subbaraj introduces Azure Data Factory, and explains why HDInsight users should adopt it to improve their reliability and maturity of their data analytics solution.

Scott talks to Dan Rosanova about Azure Service Bus Event Hubs in this 101-level introduction. High level architecture and telemetry ingress are discussed and demonstrated in the context of cloud scale applications.

We expand on the last episode (Azure Service Bus Event Hubs 101) and demonstrate using an intelligent agent, EventProcessorHost, to scale out our telemetry processing. Dan Rosanova shows us the code and the techniques we need to know to pull in and process huge amounts of data.

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps. In this video, Scott and Liam build on the Trail Application from the Azure Search 101 video and add a Bing Map turning their Spatial Data into a great Geographic web app! Azure Search Marketing Page Azure Search Doc Page Azure Blog Announcement

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps! You can scale out easily and tune indices just the way your users want it. Liam explains how the REST API for Azure Search works and how easy it is to plug into an app. You could have blazingly fast search on your site or in your app in no time. Scott and Liam integrate Azure Search...

Scott talks to Rahul Bagaria from the Application Insights team. We'll cause some real errors in an Azure Website and then root-cause the issues by instrumenting the production site with Application Insights!

Open Source lover Cory Fowler teaches Scott how to use Vagrant to create and set up virtual machines on Microsoft Azure.

Scott talks to Daria Grigoriu about new support for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Websites. We'll see how you can set up separate roles and credentials and do Git deployments without giving away the keys to the whole city!

Scott's brain explodes as Amir Netz introduces him to the new Power BI. Think BI is hard and perhaps Power BI isn't for you? Just watch.

Scott and Amir continue digging into Power BI and the powerful Power BI Dashboard to explore huge amounts of data with an ease and flexibility.

Scott talks to Azure Websites Software Engineer Elliot Hamai about the new Deploy to Azure button. It's magic, truly. You can just put a link on your GitHub repository that points to the Azure Deploy button and Azure will automatically create a websites and deploy the site directly from your Git Repository! This is a great way to enable your users to quickly deploy your open source project directl...

Scott talks with Senior Program Manager Kundana Palagiri about Linux Virtual Machine Management. She teaches Scott how to have Azure automatically run shell scripts on Azure VMs as they provision without having to manually SSH into each machine. She also covers Chef and Puppet and how Azure supports both now!

Scott talks to Yochay Kiriaty about the new CDN support for Azure Websites! Before you could manually create a CDN and copy files over from your Azure Website, but this new feature automatically syncs your Azure Websites static files directly to the CDN! This means faster images, JavaScript, and static content for your users!

Scott talks to Azure Websites software engineer Chris Gillum who gets is up to speed on Azure Websites' Easy Authentication and Authorization. This new "one-click" feature can take any Azure Website - that means node.js and PHP as well as ASP.NET and Java - and quickly setup authentication and authorization!

Galin Iliev talk about Azure Websites Testing in Production which lets you route some of your traffic to another slot that may contain a newer version of the site that you'd like to test.

Galin Iliev shows how to automate Testing in Production in Azure Websites in order to automatically control how much traffic we route to each slot. Galin shows the Testing in Production extension, and talks about the data that the runtime provides you in order to make a decision.

Guy Burstein demos how to create a simple GitHub bot that interacts with GitHub for automating processes.

Guy Burstein talks with Scott about community contributions to Azure SDK's and documentation, and shows the new and simplified process for signing contribution license agreements.

Joseph Idziorek talks about management of Elastic Scale and how to move partitions from one shard to another. Areas covered in this video: Managing shards based on split, merge and move operations Stepping through a shard move example Useful topics and links: Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Overview Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Topics

Joseph Idziorek talks about the Azure SQL Databases pricing tiers and shows Scott how easy it is to scale up and down thier SQL Databases in Azure.

How do we scale out databases in Azure? Joseph Idziorek talks about multi-tenant environments vs. single tenant environments, and how our apps should deal with them. Areas covered in this video: Demonstrating the Elastic Scale Starter Kit Working with the **shardMap object, the **MultiShardConnection object, and the **MultiShardDataReader object Useful topics and links: Azure SQL Database Elastic...

Apurva Joshi (AJ) shows Scott how to use the Azure Websites Migration Assistant to migrate an on-premises site to the cloud in just a few clicks. Areas covered in this video: Migrating a Website (IIS 6.0, SQL 2005, ASP.NET 2.0) running on Windows Server 2003 to Azure Accessing the Azure Websites Migration Assistant tool Understanding the Readiness Report and Readiness Assessment Completing options...

Mark tells Scott all about how to run compute intensive jobs at scale in the cloud. Areas covered in this video: Azure batch example scenarios View Azure batch service in the Azure portal Review an Azure Batch OCR Demo Service Use the Batch Explorer and Heat Map Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Batch Azure Batch Technical Overview Getting Started with the Azure Batch Library for .NET