Azure Friday

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Anusha Subramanian to demo Azure Databox and Azure Storage Mover, learning how to demystify storage migrations. See how these Azure tools can help you move petabytes of data easily and quickly to Azure Storage. Moving large amounts of data can be complex, but with the right tools and AI you can further simplify the process. Chapters 00:00 - Int...

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jan Kalis to demo Azure Code Optimizations for .NET. See how Azure’s AI-driven capabilities help you find real-world performance issues in your apps, ground Copilot suggestions with production data, and even help auto-generate PRs with benchmarked code fixes with GitHub Copilot software agent. Watch the live demo and learn how to level up your...

Daya Patil drops in on Scott Hanselman to chat about getting started with Azure Business continuity Center, a single pane of glass for all your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) needs across solutions and platforms for various key pillars like manage, monitor, Govern and audit compliance along with ability to perform core actions from centralized place. Recommended resources Azure B...

In this session Tulika Chaudharie joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Sidecar feature in Azure App Service and how it helps developers extend their applications with additional functionality. Learn how to run sidecar containers alongside your main app to add capabilities like logging, monitoring, caching, or background processing. Recommended resources Sidecar in Azure App Service Connect Scott H...

Rakhi Thejraj joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Cosmos DB! Azure Cosmos DB has been constantly bringing new features to boost performance and optimize costs. Azure Cosmos DB has optimized the autoscale feature to make it more cost-effective for customers with non-uniform workloads such as highly trafficked primary region and a passive secondary region just for disaster recovery. This break...

New Relic’s all-in-one observability platform makes it simple to optimize your performance by giving you a single source of truth to analyze your apps, infrastructure, and all of your Azure services. Glenn Thomas from New Relic joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure’s Native New Relic Service in Azure. Glenn demos how easy it is to get started with New Relic and manage Azure resources directly...

Nandini Bajaj joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the new alerting and reporting capabilities released by Azure BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) on the Business Continuity Center to monitor your estate protected with the Azure Site Recovery service. We announced built-in Site Recovery alerts on Azure Monitor so you can manage all your alerts on a single platform where you can confi...

Richa Gaur joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how to boost developer productivity & app efficiency with Azure Cosmos DB while building an energy optimization solution for enterprises to hit their emission targets. They start with a serverless Azure Cosmos DB account to dive into development without the hassle of capacity planning. Next, they explore how to seamlessly adjust partition keys for...

Did you know that with the Accelerated Logs feature in Azure Database for MySQL Business Critical service tier, the service provides 100% improvement in throughput? Additionally, you can automatically scale IOPS up to 80k and storage up to 32TB based on your workload needs. Siddhant (Sidd) Sawant joins Scott Hanselman to walk through the benefits of this tier and highlight its superior performance...

Darren Tu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new UI in Azure Cloud Shell and ephemeral (non-persistent) Cloud Shell sessions. Learn more about the Azure Cloud Shell container image and how to engage the team on GitHub. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Old Cloud Shell UI 01:33 - New Cloud Shell UI 02:15 - Ephemeral sessions 04:25 - Exploring the new UI 05:15 - Accessing Cloud Shell 06:17 - C...

Hanna Endrias joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Microsoft Copilot for Azure integration in Azure App Service. App Service has over sixty troubleshooting tools, which can make it difficult to know where to look when an issue arises. With Azure Copilot, you can describe a problem and navigate to the perfect diagnostics, whether it's related to high CPU usage, networking issues, getting a memory dump,...

Join Scott Hanselman and James Codella to learn how you can turn your natural language questions about your data into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries to find the right data to power your applications more easily. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - Copilot for Azure in Cosmos DB 02:40 - Demo 08:30 - Discussion 10:20 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Microsoft Copilot for Azure enables natural langua...

Steve Buchanan and Rajat Shrivastava join Scott Hanselman to explore the functionality of Azure Kubernetes Service backup in safeguarding containerized apps and their data. Learn the importance of backing up your containers, even when they are mostly stateless. See why safeguarding containers is crucial and provides insights into the workings of AKS backup in ensuring the protection of workloads r...

Scott Hanselman and Mahip Deora explore the Azure cross-region Load Balancer, a global OSI Model Layer 4 load balancing solution. Now you can distribute traffic across multiple regions with ultra-low latency and high performance. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Load balancing options 03:24 - Request routing 06:55 - Global load balancing 15:34 - Demo in the Azure portal 19:17 - Wrap-up Recomm...

Join Scott Hanselman, Kirill Gavrylyuk, and James Codella to learn about Azure Cosmos DB's built-in vector search capabilities, how customers are using it in their AI apps, and how you can easily get started today. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:05 - Overview with Kirill Gavrylyuk 06:46 - Real world example: Asos 09:12 - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 11:57 - Demo setup with James Codella...

Join Stefan Wernli and Scott Hanselman as they unveil the full capabilities of the Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0. This latest update revolutionizes quantum coding with a Rust-based core, ensuring speed, portability, and direct browser accessibility. Dive into the Azure Quantum portal, now enhanced with Copilot guidance, and transition seamlessly to web-based VS Code. Here, you can craft quantu...

Khelan Modi joins Scott Hanselman to explore the features of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, highlighting enhanced compatibility, seamless Azure integration, and flat pricing. The vCore-based architecture streamlines MongoDB workloads, offering real-time AI capabilities, an optimized structure for rich queries, and support for distributed transactions. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - Demo...

Azure Container Storage offers highly scalable, cost-efficient, and performant storage, built natively for containers. Azure Container Storage simplifies management, deployment, and orchestration of storage volumes seamlessly across volume types including Azure Disk Storage, Azure Elastic SAN, and ephemeral disks. Vybava Ramadoss joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can scale up to multiple users...

Socket. IO is a library for building low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server. Now you can build real-time apps with Azure Web PubSub for Socket. IO and say goodbye to using adapters. Kevin Guo and Chenyang Liu are here to show Scott Hanselman how it works, today on Azure Friday. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - What is Socket. IO? 02:19 - What pa...

Katherine Lu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new capabilities of Elastic SAN, a new storage offering that offers a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance, and comprehensive storage solution for a range of compute options. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:41 - What is Azure Elastic SAN? 03:05 - Azure Elastic SAN capabilities 05:15 - Azure Elastic SAN demo 12:23 - Wrap-up Recommended resour...

Tom Kerkhove joins Scott Hanselman for a hands-on experience to demonstrate how enterprises can make the transition to API-first architectures and microservices in a hybrid, multicloud world with the self-hosted gateway in Azure API Management. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Concepts 06:38 - Demo setup 10:46 - Demo self-hosted gateway 23:09 - Wrap-up Recommended resources API gateway in Azu...

Harold Campos joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Logic Apps to build native integration solutions for mainframes and midranges, including IBM DB2, Host Files, CICS, IMS, MQ, 3270 systems, and many more. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of mainframes and midranges 03:21 - Mainframe modernization 04:28 - Azure Logic Apps for legacy modernization 07:24 - Demo: Az...

Ben Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to walk through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights, which is a native monitoring solution that gives you visibility into connection characteristics and optimization opportunities for your AVD environment. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Macro and micro analysis 01:33 - Overview tab 03:33 - Connection Diagnostics tab 04:44 - Connection Performance tab 05:37...

Liam Cavanagh joins Scott Hanselman to explain vector search in Azure Cognitive Search. Vector search is a method of searching for information within various data types, including image, audio, text, video, and more. It determines search results based on the similarity of numerical representations of data, called vector embeddings. Unlike keyword matching, vector search compares the vector represe...

Olivia Al Joundi and Sudhanva Huruli join Scott Hanselman to discuss the recently announced Azure Linux for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Linux is Microsoft's Linux distribution and is Generally Available for use as an OS option in AKS. It provides added security, performance, and quality benefits for your Linux based Kubernetes workloads. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Why Azure Li...