The Azure Podcast

Azure Networking Engineering Manager Abhishek Tiwari joins us once again, this time to talk about all of the work his team has done to add L7 and DDOS protection at the Edge and the enhancements in the DNS Service to make it more secure. Media:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode446.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/yTtchBGLsKg   Other updates: General availabilit...

Cynthia, Sujit and Russell discuss the SAP for Azure Land Zone Acclerator with Pankaj Meshram from the Microsoft Product team, and Matt Ely from Microsoft's Global Partner Solutions CSA team.   Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode445.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/m1FPIp0mWDo   SAP on Azure Landing Zone Resources: SAP on Azure Deployment Automat...

The team gets together with Mark Eisenberg, Cloud Solutions Architect and frequent guest on the podcast, to analyze the various Innovations in Azure that were announced my Mark Russinovich at the recent Ignite conference. The discussions range from data center hardware to quantum computing. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode444.mp3 YouTube:  https://you...

The team talks to Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a Principal Architect in the Azure team, about the new style of applications that leverage the 5G wireless network and are managed by Azure. This enables new scenarios running apps on factory floors, smart buildings, stadiums etc. and opens up new microservice style architectures that are all controlled via Azure.   Media File:  https://azpod...

The team catches up with Brian Lehr to take a look at the range of IP services available in Azure.   Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode442.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/weTl6r63qYo Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ip-services-overview (IP Services Overview) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtu...

The team catches up with the developers of the Databricks Accelerator for Azure Purview to learn when, where, and why you might use it.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode441.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/W9Dyb6E5eKk Resources: The Databricks to Purview Solution Accelerator Repo: microsoft/Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator: A connector to...

The team catches up with Holger Bruchelt to get an update SAP and why we now say "SAP and Azure" and not "SAP on Azure"   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode440.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/T70PrDkSQvI Resources: https://microsoft.com/SAP - Overall picture at SAP on Azure https://aka.ms/acss - This is THE central entry point for Azure Center for S...

Kendall and Sujit talk to Tom Kerkhove again, now a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure team and still the maintainer of KEDA. He gives us insights into the new API Management Self Hosted Gateway V2 option, which allows customers to host API Management capabilities in other clouds and on-premises with many more deployment options. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episode...

The team catches up with Aimee Littleton, PM on the Azure Networking team, to learn more about NAT Gateway and when customers should be using it. Short answer = whenever you have outbound network connectivity as part of your workload!   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode438.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/cmU5hNEISlg Resources: What is Azure Vi...

James Tabor from the Azure CXP CRE (Customer Reliability Engineering) team shares how he improves team productivity by building Power Platform Apps and gives us tips and tricks to get us started on the same journey.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode437.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/_t6BIh-9vHI   Other Updates: Public preview: Ephemeral OS...

The team catches up with Byron Tardif from the App Services team to learn about App Services' migration to Kestrel+YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy)   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode436.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/OuPj4RAGDLQ Resources: A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services - .NET Blog (microsoft.com) gRPC support on...

The team catches up with Bill Paxson and Rob Futrick to learn about Azure HPC and the unique way in which the Microsoft Support team is supports HPC customers     Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode435.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/1y1iDUvx75A Resources: High-performance computing (HPC) on Azure - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs Hig...

Evan and Cynthia speak with Abhishek Tiwari, Director of Software Engineering about the diverse types of situations traffic manager can be used in, how Microsoft has built a service to support 100% SLA, and how traffic manager can even be leveraged as part of a cloud modernization effort in a hybrid scenario.  Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode434.mp3 Y...

Evan and Sujit discuss one of the earliest, yet least talked-about services in Azure, the Relay Service. They discuss how it works and the place it can play in various application deployment scenarios. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode433.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/hCR-BY8hf7E Resources:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-relay/rela...

Cale and Sujit discuss the little-known. but very important App Config Service which simplifies configurations for all applications on Azure. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode432.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/P6QsUY0zdQQ Resources:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-app-configuration/overview   Other updates: Azure empowers easy-t...

We chat with Nir Mashkowski, Principal PM Manager, about the evolution of PaaS since its inception 10+ years ago, some of the usage patterns that he has observed, the benefits and reasoning of using PaaS services, and the future of where Azure PaaS services is headed.  Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode431.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/b3zUtaCnhTE...

Azure FastTrack Engineers John Downs and Arsen Vladimirskiy explain how multi-tenant architectures can be deployed on Azure. They talk about the various factors that should be considered when designing these types of applications.   Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode430.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/r4pePMf_Y28 Resources:  https://aka.ms/mult...

Cale and Cynthia chat with Manju Ramanathpura about the Azure Native ISV program, the customer experience, the background of the initiative and the investments that are made to streamline various products that developers are using onto Azure.   Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode429.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/DEjJ6DJDjBc Resources: Extend Azure...

Our resident expert on all things Java on Azure, Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, gives us all the latest updates on running your Java workloads on various Azure services. He also dives into the newly renamed Azure Spring Apps service which now has more SKUs to address various use-cases.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode428.mp3 YouTube:  https://...

The team catches up with Sarah Novotny and Xin Liu to learn about both the network switch SONiC and why Microsoft recently transferred control of it to the Linux Foundation. Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode427.mp3  YouTube:  https://youtu.be/hmyz4Qpp9e4 Resources: Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Moves to the Linux Foundation Git...

Audrey Long, a Senior Security Software Engineer in Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft, discusses the Defender for the Cloud service. She explains how the service plays an important part in securing our assets and apps in Azure and other clouds as well.  Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode426.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/w5wG6Bf2aQY Reso...

Special guest Mark Eisenberg (Senior CSAM at Microsoft), co-hosts with Kendall, Evan and Sujit on this special edition of the Podcast to offer his insights into the various Azure announcements at BUILD 2022.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode425.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/1xoGKpDyRxs Resources:  https://news.microsoft.com/build-2022-book...

Our very own Cynthia Kreng, who is a PM in the Worldwide Customer Success Unit focused on Developer acceleration, talks to us about one their first offerings in API Management.   Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode424.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/UusIj1ikvLM Resources: Repo: https://aka.ms/EnterpriseScale-APIM Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-u...

Kyle Teegarden, a Senior PM in the DevDiv group, gets us re-acquainted with the Redis offering on Azure and discusses all the latest features including the Enterprise tier. Media File:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode423.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/xKA-w7Icn00 Resources: Azure Cache for Redis | Microsoft Azure How to Improve Your Azure SQL Performance by up to...

Thomas Stringer is a Software Engineering Lead in the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft and he gives us insights into the OSM add-on for AKS and tells us why that makes applications on AKS so much more secure. Media file:  https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode422.mp3 YouTube:  https://youtu.be/DICsJmFSGCs Resources:  https://openservicemesh.io/ Cloud Native Comp...