Azure Friday

Jay Gordon (@jaydestro) joins Donovan Brown (@donovanbrown) to show how to build a containerized React application and deploy it to production with Azure Kubernetes Service. He'll also show how to configure an Azure Active Directory service principal to enable Role-Based Authentication, which enables you to dynamically create and manage other Azure resources.[0:01:07] - DemoService principals with...

Dr. Ranveer Chandra gives Scott Hanselman an introduction to Azure FarmBeats at Microsoft Ignite 2019. FarmBeats is a business-to-business offering available in Azure Marketplace. It enables the aggregation of data from farms -- across sensors, drones, robots, satellites, and weather providers -- and generation of actionable insights using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) mod...

Azure Data Share enables organizations to share data simply, safely and with plenty of flexibility when it comes to data sources and modes of sharing. In this episode, Joanna Podgoetsky joins Donovan Brown to walks us through how organizations can share data with no data movement through a new capability which enables in-place sharing from Azure Data Explorer.[0:04:20] - DemoAzure Data Share docum...

Tim Sander joins Scott Hanselman to discuss composite indexes and correlated subqueries using the SQL API in Azure Cosmos DB. A Request Unit, or RU, is the measure of throughput in Azure Cosmos DB. Learn how to optimize queries with a composite index to decrease the RUs needed for a given query. They also showcases correlated subqueries and examples of how they can make it easier to query arrays i...

Anavi Nahar joins Donovan Brown to show how virtual network peering enables you to connect networks seamlessly in Azure Virtual Network. The virtual networks appear as one for connectivity purposes. The traffic between virtual machines uses the Microsoft backbone infrastructure. Like traffic between virtual machines in the same network, traffic is routed through Microsoft's private network only.[0...

Aung Oo joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Azure Ultra Disks. Ultra Disk is a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.[0:02:00] - DemoUsing Azure ultra disksAzure Disk Storage overviewAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk Stora...

Jie Feng joins Scott Hanselman to show how to share SQL tables and views using Azure Data Share. Azure Data Share now supports snapshot-based sharing for SQL-based sources, including Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse. Data Providers can use Azure Data Share to share tables and views with their customers and partners in a governed, secure and simple way. Data Consumers have full flexibility...

Thomas Maurer joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can connect your Windows Servers on-premises to Azure hybrid services like Azure Site Recovery to protect your virtual machines or Azure Update Management to keep your servers up to date.[0:01:28] - DemoConnecting Windows Server to Azure hybrid servicesAzure Site Recovery overviewUpdate Management solution in AzureHow to configure Azure Hybrid Se...

Learn how you can publish your SaaS solution and start generating revenue by making it available to potential buyers on Microsoft AppSource and Azure Marketplace. Ercenk Keresteci joins Scott Hanselman to cover the technical details of integrating a solution with Microsoft's commercial marketplace, including how to use scripts for provisioning and de-provisioning a customer.[0:05:00] - DemoAzure M...

Christina Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show what's new in Azure Cognitive Services.  Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer—without requiring machine-learning expertise.  All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps.[0:02:00] - DemoAzure Cognitive Services overviewContainer support in Az...

Keiko Harada joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Prometheus to monitor containers in Azure Monitor.  Prometheus is a popular open source metric monitoring solution and is a part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation.  Customers who like the extensive metrics which Prometheus provides on Kubernetes also like how easy it is to use Azure Monitor for containers which provides fully managed, out of t...

Most of the time, your apps are running happily and healthily. However, when things go wrong, you can use Genie and Navigator in App Service Diagnostics to figure out what's wrong. Jen Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show how the App Service Diagnostics interactive interface (Genie) guides you intelligently through the self-troubleshooting experience. Navigator, enables you to find potentially breaki...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how wrangling data flows in Azure Data Factory empower you with a code-free, serverless environment that simplifies data preparation in the cloud and scales to any data size with no infrastructure management required. It uses the industry-leading Power Query data preparation technology (also used in Power Platform dataflows, Excel, and Power BI) to pre...

Container startup time is the price of admission, but startup time is also an inhibitor for many serverless scenarios. Steve Lasker joins Lara Rubbelke to show how Project Teleport eliminates the download and decompression of layers by directly mounting expanded layers, potentially unlocking many new scenarios.[0:02:13] - DemoAzure Container Registry Adds Teleportation blog postTeleport Preview si...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are rampant and it's not a question of if a business will be impacted but when. Anupam Vij shows Scott Hanselman how Azure DDoS Protection Standard can protect your applications against targeted DDoS attacks and why it is critical for every business running in Azure to use the service to enhance their security posture. If your protected applications are...

Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the actor model of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.[00:01:36] - DemoDapr - Distribu...

Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the core concepts of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.[00:02:19] - DemoDapr - Distri...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Gantt views to visualize your pipeline and activity runs. Look at the Gantt view per pipeline, or group by pipeline annotations/tags you create.[00:49] Demo Visually monitor Azure data factories (docs)Enhanced monitoring capabilities and tags/annotations in Azure Data Factory (Azure Friday)Azure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory d...

Using a bastion host can help limit threats such as port scanning and other types of malware targeting your VMs. Ashish Jain joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Bastion gives you secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines. Now you can securely access your VMs over SSL from the Azure portal and without exposing public IP addresses.[05:20] Demo Azure Bastion overviewAzure Ba...

Geoff Staneff joins Donovan Brown to show how Data Accelerator for Apache Spark simplifies everything from onboarding to streaming of big data. It offers a rich, easy-to-use experience for creating, editing, and managing Apache Spark jobs on Azure HDInsight while enabling the full power of the Apache Spark engine.[01:21] Demo Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator for Apache SparkData Accelerator...

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can run your Azure Machine Learning (AML) service pipelines as a step in your Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines. This enables you to run your machine learning models with data from multiple sources (85+ data connectors supported in ADF). This seamless integration enables batch prediction scenarios such as identifying possible loan defaults, de...

Orin Thomas joins Donovan Brown to show how you can use Azure File Sync to tier unused files from file shares to the cloud, and to simplify replication of files and folders to different file servers in your organization.[00:01:32] - DemoDeploy Azure File SyncPlanning for an Azure File Sync deploymentCloud Tiering OverviewAbout Azure File SyncCreate a free account (Azure)

Are you tired of managing your multiple public IP addresses in Azure? Anavi Nahar joins Donovan Brown to show how Public IP Prefix enables you to use one prefix to manage your public endpoints in Azure. You can have predictable, contiguous public IP addresses that don't change as you scale. With a prefix, you can give your customers in Azure one range to simplify firewall management with predictab...

The performance of your applications is central to the success of your IT organization. Many factors can affect the performance of your applications including network latency which is impacted by, among other things, the physical distance between the deployed virtual machines. Ziv Rafalovich joins Donovan Brown to show how Proximity Placement Groups help you co-locate your Azure infrastructure as...

Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to show how to run Jupyter Notebook and Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB. Now you can use the interactive experience of Jupyter Notebook and analytics powered by Apache Spark with your operational data. Run analytics and ML on your operational data in real time without data movement, and without the need to split into transactional and analytical silos.[00:02:...