Azure Friday

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale applications. It encompasses infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, and user-experience monitoring. Sreekanth Thirthala from Azure and Ryan MacLean from Datadog join Scott Hanselman to show how Datadog's offering in the Azure Marketplace enables you to manage Datadog in the Azure console as an in...

Last December, Gaurav was on Azure Friday with Scott Hanselman to introduce a new Azure service: Azure Purview. He showed how Azure Purview scans and map all your data—no matter where it is. Azure Purview is now generally available, and Gaurav is back to show what's new and what's on the roadmap.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:30]– Azure Purview overview[0:05:40]– Key GA Announcements[0:18:40]– Roadm...

Sarah Young joins Scott Hanselman to discuss updates to Azure Sentinel automation and how you can use it to accelerate and streamline threat response for your security operations.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:41]– Azure Sentinel automation rules[0:06:15]– Automating responses with playbooks [0:09:30]– Playbook templates [0:12:56]– Wrap-upAutomate incident handling in Azure Sentinel with automation...

David de Matheu joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Communication Services UI Library enables you to add communications capabilities to your applications with only a couple lines of code plus composable components and turn-key composites. [0:00:00]– Overview[0:00:49]– General concepts[0:05:54]– Azure Communication Services UI Library storybook[0:12:22]– Demo[0:19:43]– Wrap-upAzure Communic...

Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Arc-enabled data services bring Azure data solutions – such as SQL Managed Instance and PostgreSQL Hyperscale – to your own infrastructure and how to modernize your data layer using Azure services, outside of Azure.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:14]– Overview and architecture[0:04:22]– Demo: Azure Arc-enabled SQL Managed Instance deployment flow[0:...

Kirill Gavrylyuk, Matias Quaranta, Deborah Chen, and Estefani Arroyo join Scott Hanselman to provide another set of updates for Azure Cosmos DB.  Learn about: using Azure Cosmos DB as a Session State Provider for ASP.NET Core; the latest updates for Azure Cosmos DB free tier; how to optimize cost and performance by scaling the throughput (RU/s) of your database or container automatically and insta...

Steve Michelotti joins Scott Hanselman to show what's new in Azure Government, which provides a physically separate and network-isolated instance of Azure for U.S. federal, state, and local governments in multiple regions in the United States.  Learn how Azure Government is both the same and different from Azure public cloud.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:38]– What is Azure Government?[0:05:19]– Azu...

Derek Martin joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Secure Baseline reference implementation from the Azure Architecture Center.  Learn what it is, how it works, and how you can use it to start your production deployment in a secure and compliant manner.  You'll also learn about the available additions for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS 3.2.1) co...

Yuan Zheng joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demonstrate Blob storage support for the NFS 3.0 protocol, which enables you to run your applications on a single storage platform.  With no application rewrites necessary you will also help eliminate data silos.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:00]– Overview of NFS v3 support for Azure Blob Storage[0:04:42]– Demo: Enabling NFSv3 in your Storage account[0...

Delbert Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to show how quantum-inspired algorithms mimic quantum physics to solve difficult optimization problems. Quantum-Inspired Optimization (QIO) takes state-of-the-art algorithmic techniques from quantum physics and makes these capabilities available in Azure on conventional hardware, and callable from a Python client. You can use QIO to solve problems with hundreds...

Josh Caplan, Sabin Nair, and Priyanka Langade join Scott Hanselman to show how you can use native Azure Synapse Analytical runtimes to analyze Dataverse data and get actionable insights.  Dataverse structures a variety of data and business logic to support interconnected applications and processes in a secure and compliant manner.  Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse is the fastest path to success fo...

Connie Yau joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate the advantages of using the new Azure SDK by comparing rewrites of the same application, one using the legacy library and the other using the unified Azure SDK. In this example, Connie uses the Azure SDK for Java.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:45]– Cloud Clipboard sample app[0:03:07]– Adding authentication[0:06:02]– Common Azure core functions (paginat...

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management integration in Azure Lighthouse is now in public preview.  Meagan Olsen and Saif Kayani show Scott Hanselman how partners can now use just-in-time access permissions, combined with MFA, to securely deliver secure managed services.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:43]– Overview with Meagan Olsen[0:04:50]– Demo with Saif Kayani[0:17:55]– Wrap-upCreate eligible auth...

Anthony Chu joins Scott Hanselman to show how to build, debug, and deploy a full-stack serverless application in minutes with Azure Static Web Apps.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:00:55]– Overview[0:03:03]– Demo - basic stuff[0:12:48]– Demo - a little more advanced[0:18:41]– Wrap-upWhat is Azure Static Web Apps? Azure Static Web Apps learning pathAzure Static Web Apps CLI (preview)Getting Started with C...

Mariia Mykhailova joins Scott Hanselman to discuss quantum computing and quantum programming with Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK), from writing Q# code to running it on hardware via Azure Quantum.[0:00:00]– Intro[0:00:51]– Overview[0:05:43]– From algorithm to coding and unit tests[0:20:58]– Jupyter notebook support for Q#[0:34:17]– Wrap-upMicrosoft Quantum overviewAzure Quantum documentati...

Sydney Morton joins Scott Hanselman to show how verifiable credentials enable you to own and prove who you are in the digital world. See how to enable decentralized identity through seamless user and developer experiences.[0:00:00]– Intro[0:00:37]– Overview[0:03:01]– Demo – end user experience[0:06:14]– Demo – relying party experience[0:09:53]– Demo – admin experience[0:13:00]– Wrap-upAn introduct...

Kirill Gavrylyuk and friends join Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Cosmos DB updates: integrated cache, serverless for MongoDB API, and Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra with dual write proxy.[0:00:00]– Opening[0:01:33]– Integrated cache with Tim Sander[0:17:36]– Serverless for MongoDB API with Gahl Levy[0:24:00]– Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra with Theo van Kraay[0:37:35]– Wrap-upHow t...

Claire Giordano joins Scott Hanselman to show how the new Free account for Flexible Server & the new Basic tier for Hyperscale (Citus) in Azure Database for PostgreSQL makes it easier and cheaper to get started with Postgres on Azure.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:15]– What you might not know about Postgres on Azure[0:02:50]– Flexible Server available in Azure free account[0:04:00]– Getting star...

Christos Matskas joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Microsoft identity platform enables you to add identity authentication and authorization to your solution in a few easy steps.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:03:19]– Overview of the Microsoft identity platform[0:10:50]– Demo: ASP.NET Core Web App with AAD authentication[0:12:53]– Demo: Registering an application in AAD[0:16:05]– Wrap-upWhat is the M...

Lisa Cohen joins Scott Hanselman to explain how Microsoft uses data science to help Azure customers. Learn about content, programs, and services to guide you on your cloud journey while getting a glimpse behind the scenes into how data drives product investments.[0:00:00]– Opening[0:00:25]– Introduction[0:03:10]– Azure Quickstart Center for early success[0:04:07]– Azure portal improvements and the...

Azure VMware Solution delivers a VMware environment as a service, which enables you to run native VMware workloads on Azure.  Shannon Kuehn shows Scott Hanselman the seamless experience to migrate VMs directly from on-premises to Azure.[0:00:23]– Introduction[0:01:44]– Background[0:04:10]– Architecture[0:05:18]– Demo[0:15:02]– Wrap-upAzure VMware Solution overviewAzure VMware Solution documentatio...

Develop web applications with real-time messaging using Azure Web PubSub, a fully managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.  David Fowler and Liangying Wei join Scott Hanselman to show how to build real time applications with WebSockets and Azure Web PubSub.[0:00:23]– Introduction[0:05:55]– Live chat demo[0:12:52]– Collaborative whiteboard demo[0:13:41]– Using with ngrok and...

Wee Hyong Tok joins Scott Hanselman to provide an Azure Data Factory update with several members of the Azure Data Factory engineering team.[0:00:22]– Intro[0:02:48]– Using Azure Data Factory and Azure Purview for data governance and data integration (Linda Wang)[0:16:37]– Fast startup time to data flow compute clusters (Mark Kromer)[0:31:46]– CI/CD improvements with Azure Data Factory (Abhishek N...

Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to provide another Azure Cosmos DB update with several members of the Azure Cosmos DB engineering team.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:02:20]– MongoDB 4.0 (Gahl Levy)[0:12:30]– Azure Cosmos DB notebooks (Tanuj Mittal)[0:22:43]– Continuous backups (Govind Kanshi)[0:31:25]– Wrap-upAzure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB (4.0 server version): supported features and syntaxUp...

Ramya Oruganti shows Scott Hanselman how much faster and easier it is to provision Confluent Cloud resources directly from Azure.  Ramya also shows a real-time search use case demo that leverages Azure Database for MySQL, RediSearch, Azure Spring Cloud, and Confluent Cloud on Azure.[0:00:00]– Introduction[0:01:03]– Background[0:05:06]– Demo: Provisioning Confluent Cloud from Azure [0:09:27]– Demo:...