The Azure Podcast

We talk to Steve Selleny, a Global Partner Development Manager at Microsoft, about the AI and ML trends he has noticed in Financial Services ISVs.  Steve has been working in the technology sector for over 21 years in various roles including software development, systems architecture, consulting, sales, and partner management. For the past two years, he has been working with Financial Services...

Evan and Sujit cover a whole bunch of updates to various Azure services such as AKS, ACA, Functions, VMs, PostgerSQL, VNETs and Storage. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode470.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/eGsnmw5WjHI  Resources: VMs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-subscription-restore-for-azure-virtual-machines/...

Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode469.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/k0DkkVkfw2o Resources:   Announcement for Fabric including the key dates and how to enable :...

This week Cale talks to Radhika Bollineni, Engineering Manager for Wordpress on App Service, about how to easily create WordPress sites in your Azure subscription to publish your content, using just a few clicks in the Marketplace. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode468.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/rO8xicLKKow Documentation: https://github.com/Azure/wordpress-linu...

After talking to Ryan Berry a little while back about OneStream's journey to Azure, the team catches back up with him to hear about how their architecture will evolve in the future to be more Cloud Native. In addition, they discuss the challenges of rearchitecting a pre-existing product when you cannot afford the have dual stacks running at the same time. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.wi...

Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to reason over their own data.  Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode466.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/nDcIWvHa43s Resources: ...

Evan and Sujit talk to Principal PM Ramya Oruganti about the release of Functions as a first class managed service on Azure Container Apps. She tells us how this opens up possibilities for event-driven applications on ACA with full support for KEDA, Bindings, Dapr, GitHub Actions etc.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode465.mp3 YouTube:  https://yo...

Cale and Russell talk to the Microsoft Program Manager for DevBox and Azure Deployment Environments, Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala, about how Azure Deployment Environments can enable rapid deployment of on-demand dev/test environments while providing governance, security and cost management - plus some more updates from Microsoft Build 2023! Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episod...

The team catches up with Ryan Berry to learn about OneStream's journey to Azure. They talk about both the benefits and pitfalls and why Ryan is happy OneStream in running in Azure.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode463.mp3  YouTube:  https://youtu.be/Um4rg4eKRuU Resources:  https://www.onestream.com/blog/onestream-splash-dc-wows-attende...

Jorge Palma, the Lead PM for Azure Kubernetes Services, talks to Evan and Sujit about the Long-Term Support (LTS) version Kubernetes which provides support for 2 years. He tells us how this model works and who may benefit from this option. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode462.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/zmrOegThyCE Resources:  https://techcommu...

Russell and Sujit talk to Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products at NVIDIA, about a new offering in Azure via the Marketplace that will make it easier to get NVIDIA's software onto the Azure platform to make it easier for customers to take advantage of their GPU accelerated instances.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode461.mp3 YouTub...

Cale, Evan and Sujit talk to Neha Rathod, Garv Jasuja, Akshay Gupta and Vijay Chiluveru, who are Graduate Students at Penn State University that have developed a wireless monitoring device to detect cardiac arrest and alert the caretakers. We talk to them about how they developed the product and how Azure helped speed up the development.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows...

Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable information about the state of the platform.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode459.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/Ousa2qWQEiQ Resources:  Blogs Advanci...

Elizabeth Graham, a Senior Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering group at Microsoft, talks to Evan and Sujit about the various options we have for integrating external systems with Azure. She talks about how messages, files and other input forms can be ingested and processed with some of the services available in Azure. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/e...

The team talks to Ayush Agarwal, Davide Mauri, and Sean Leonard to learn about how the open-source Data API Builder can be used to quickly and easily create CRUD APIs on top of multiple database platforms in Azure for use in many types of applications and languages.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode457.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/pgvMa3tFg7s...

Evan and Sujit talk to Ricardo Villarreal about the new ability to built network-aware applications in Azure. APC provides a unified abstraction layer for accessing network APIs—such as edge discovery, quality on demand, and device location—consistently across operators and connectivity methods. Ricardo offers compelling use-cases for these new APIs in Azure and tips to get started. &n...

In this episode we chat with Andrés Padilla and Meer Alam about practical use of AI and ML systems.  Examples of this are discussed around autonomous drone / delivery models and the various components in Azure that make this a seamless, scalable and sustainable experience.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode455.mp3 YouTube:  https://yo...

Our guest this week, Paul Henwood joins Kendall and Russell to talk about many different aspects of sustainability, and how Azure embraces and supports customers with their sustainability goals.   Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode454.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/HSPeE6Hpmns Sustainability Resources: Microsoft Sustainability - Products for a Sust...

Ryan Bostelmann joins the Azure Podcast team to share how the Azure Support function use Azure and Power Platform to be more efficient and deliver a better customer service. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Edpisode453.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/mIYTsy6jwVQ Links: Power Apps: What is Power Apps? - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn Power Automate: Get Started with Po...

The team catches up with April Edwards to learn about the benefits of using Bicep to deploy Azure resources.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode452.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/FhniwXjDBe0 Resources:  IaC Blog: Infrastructure as Code - comparing tools (microsoft.com) MS Learn path for BIcep: Learn Live: Use Bicep to deploy your Azure infras...

Jack Tracey, a Cloud Solutions Architect from the Customer Architecture and Engineering team talks to us about the work his team does to create the Landing Zones which can form the foundation for any well-designed Azure platform. He explains what they are and best practices to consume them in your cloud strategy.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode451....

In an Azure Podcast team first, we all got together on Twitter Live Spaces, with a handful of live listeners to see how well this medium works.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode450.mp3   YouTube:  https://youtu.be/1SIRBCWR0YI Public Preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17 Gen...

Reza Rahman, a Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure, talks to us about the work his team has done to enable customers using legacy Java frameworks to easily migrate to Azure or modernize in a variety of ways. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode449.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/OqjDtcT6c9E Resources: https://speakerdeck.com/reza_rahman/why-jakarta...

Sarah Novotny joins us on the show again, this time to tell us all about the collaboration that happens with Azure in Open Source Software. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode448.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/XwkyxBq0KL4 Resources:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/16/microsoft-contributes-s2c2f-to-openssf-to-improve-supply-cha...

Sujit and Evan are joined by Amir Dahan, Senior Product Manager for Networking at Microsoft, to discuss Azure DDOS protection. Media File: Episode447.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/B_TNr6c2F9o Other Updates Use managed identities with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Preview) | Microsoft Learn Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022 | Azure updates | Microsof...