Azure Friday

Scott Guthrie tells Scott what SQL Databases in Azure can do, how backups work, what can be managed, exported, and moved to the cloud.

ScottGu explains how Web Sites are load balanced, then they add Endpoint Monitoring to an existing site

ScottHa talks to ScottGu about first principles of Azure. Where is Azure? How do the containers work? Where are they located? Where does the hardware stop and the software start?

Scott and David use Azure Web Site deployment hooks plus the 3rd party Zapier service to send text messages after successfully deployments.

There's an amazing debug console within your Azure Web Site that you can use for debugging, exploring, uploading files, as well as JSON endpoints for getting information about your environment. David hooks us up.

David explains where Kudu and Web Site logs are kept, and how we can capture diagnostics trace information.

Scott and David connect to the log streaming services and watch Trace output from the command line.

Kudu can be extended to run Unit Tests and much more more using Custom Deployment Scripts. How far can David and Scott take it?

David and Scott setup a branching system to deploy their web site from a specific Git Branch.

Scott talks to Erich Gamma about how a rich JavaScript-based editor codenamed "Monaco" integrates with Windows Azure and Visual Studio Online

Scott and David deploy a website directly from GitHub to Azure Web Sites using Git and Kudu.

Erich and Scott continue their exploration of the codenamed "Monaco" editor and the Visual Studio Online experience, editing and deploying node apps and C# apps to Azure via Git.

David Ebbo explains the Kudu deployment system to Scott. How does Kudu use Git to deploy Azure Web Sites from many sources? Join the conversation and have your questions answered at http://friday.azure.com

Erich digs into how the Visual Studio rich editing experience codenamed Monaco uses TypeScript compiled to JavaScript in the browser to deliver type information in a whole new class of application. He also shares the architecture of the new system and how it relates to "Kudu."

Scott and Stefan explore how Application Settings work with Azure. What settings go in your web.config and which don't? How does Azure override settings and why is this useful?

When you want to setup SSL on your Azure Web Site, what are you options? Stefan explains IP-based and SNI-based SSL with Azure Web Sites. Join the conversation at http://friday.azure.com.

Stefan shares some important details than are often forgotten when moving your site to the cloud. What do you own in the Web Sites file system, and what do you not? When is file system access OK?

Scott and Stefan hook up a custom CNAME DNS Record to an Azure Web Site...will it work? Or will they wait a day for DNS to propegate?

Scott and Stefan dig into what's required of an Azure Web Site to run more than just ASP.NET. Why does a PHP app need a web.config? Can we run one site with more than one technology within it...and is that OK?

Scott learns how end point monitoring works and how to keep a Web Site up all the time.

Web Sites can auto-scale either on a schedule or based on load. Stefan explains to Scott how this works.

Why use Azure Web Sites? How do they relate to (and use) Virtual Machines and Cloud Services. Scott talks to Stefan who breaks it all down.

When should you move your Azure Web Site off "Free" and what does that really mean?

How do Web Sites scale? What happens when the underlying Operating System takes a patch? Stefan explains how Web Sites stay up 24/7. Join the conversation and get your questions answered at http://Friday. Azure.com

It's the first episode and Scott makes an Azure Web Site and deploys it all from within Visual Studio 2013 using the new Azure SDK 2.2. Also, he attaches the debugger to the site in Azure itself! Join the conversation at http://Friday. Azure.com