Azure Friday

Scott talks to Victor Mushkatin from the Application Insights team. They create a new Web API application to deploy to Azure, but they instrument that all with Application Insights. Victor show us how to instrumental the ASP.NET Web API and hook it directly into Application Insights to get use amounts of context. It's hugely useful when trying to understand production applications in the cloud.

In this video, Scott learns from Guang Yang about how to manage Azure from the PowerShell command line! We learn how to manage multiple accounts and subscriptions, and access any Azure resource.

Guang joins Scott to demystify the concepts behind Azure Resource Manager. We talk about how Resource Manager and the Gallery fit into the Azure ecosystem. We'll automate the creation of our new resources from the command line with PowerShell.

In this special episode of Azure Friday, a demo goes bad and WE KEEP ROLLING. We want you to learn as we learn. When a deployment fails, Scott and Guang step out of the demo and do some debugging and learn interesting things about Azure, Azure Websites, Git, and PowerShell. Also, much respect and a big shout out to Guang Yang who was a great sport for letting us share this teachable moment for us...

Scott talks to Wee Hyong Tok on how to analyze huge amounts of data with Azure Data Factory. Specifically, he shows us how to create a customer "churn model" so a theoretical telco provider can better understand how their wireless customers "churn" - why they leave and how they can get them back.

Scott talks to Gaurav Malhotra about the Azure Data Factory, specifically how to monitor and manage large scale data workflows. When moving massive amounts of data through a data workflow managing each step and the health of the system can be overwhelming. Azure Data Factory has sophisticated tools for data ingress, health monitoring, and management.

The new Azure portal is getting better and better. Chandrika Shankarnarayan wows Scott with the new Essentials panel, Part Gallery and settings improvement.

Scott Hanselman talks with Yochay Kiriaty about the new Azure App Service Web Apps. Yochay is going to share how Web Apps helps developers build mission-critical Web apps that scale with your business.

Scott Hanselman talks with Josh Twist about the new Azure App Service Logic Apps. Josh will share how this new service helps developers automate the access and use of data and business processes across your web and mobile apps.

Scott Hanselman talks with Kirill Gavrylyuk about the new Azure App Service Mobile Apps service. He'll cover how Mobile Services can be used to build mobile apps for employees, partners, and customers on any device and / or extend existing web apps with mobile capabilities.

Scott Hanselman talks with Scott Hunter about the new Azure App Service API Apps. Scott Hunter will share how this new service helps developers build and consume Cloud APIs and participate in the API economy as well as leverage APIs and connectors as a building block for creating integrated web and mobile apps.

Anand Subbaraj introduces Azure Data Factory, and explains why HDInsight users should adopt it to improve their reliability and maturity of their data analytics solution.

Scott talks to Dan Rosanova about Azure Service Bus Event Hubs in this 101-level introduction. High level architecture and telemetry ingress are discussed and demonstrated in the context of cloud scale applications.

We expand on the last episode (Azure Service Bus Event Hubs 101) and demonstrate using an intelligent agent, EventProcessorHost, to scale out our telemetry processing. Dan Rosanova shows us the code and the techniques we need to know to pull in and process huge amounts of data.

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps. In this video, Scott and Liam build on the Trail Application from the Azure Search 101 video and add a Bing Map turning their Spatial Data into a great Geographic web app! Azure Search Marketing Page Azure Search Doc Page Azure Blog Announcement

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps! You can scale out easily and tune indices just the way your users want it. Liam explains how the REST API for Azure Search works and how easy it is to plug into an app. You could have blazingly fast search on your site or in your app in no time. Scott and Liam integrate Azure Search...

Scott talks to Rahul Bagaria from the Application Insights team. We'll cause some real errors in an Azure Website and then root-cause the issues by instrumenting the production site with Application Insights!

Open Source lover Cory Fowler teaches Scott how to use Vagrant to create and set up virtual machines on Microsoft Azure.

Scott talks to Daria Grigoriu about new support for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Websites. We'll see how you can set up separate roles and credentials and do Git deployments without giving away the keys to the whole city!

Scott's brain explodes as Amir Netz introduces him to the new Power BI. Think BI is hard and perhaps Power BI isn't for you? Just watch.

Scott and Amir continue digging into Power BI and the powerful Power BI Dashboard to explore huge amounts of data with an ease and flexibility.

Scott talks to Azure Websites Software Engineer Elliot Hamai about the new Deploy to Azure button. It's magic, truly. You can just put a link on your GitHub repository that points to the Azure Deploy button and Azure will automatically create a websites and deploy the site directly from your Git Repository! This is a great way to enable your users to quickly deploy your open source project directl...

Scott talks with Senior Program Manager Kundana Palagiri about Linux Virtual Machine Management. She teaches Scott how to have Azure automatically run shell scripts on Azure VMs as they provision without having to manually SSH into each machine. She also covers Chef and Puppet and how Azure supports both now!

Scott talks to Yochay Kiriaty about the new CDN support for Azure Websites! Before you could manually create a CDN and copy files over from your Azure Website, but this new feature automatically syncs your Azure Websites static files directly to the CDN! This means faster images, JavaScript, and static content for your users!

Scott talks to Azure Websites software engineer Chris Gillum who gets is up to speed on Azure Websites' Easy Authentication and Authorization. This new "one-click" feature can take any Azure Website - that means node.js and PHP as well as ASP.NET and Java - and quickly setup authentication and authorization!