Azure Friday

Galin Iliev talk about Azure Websites Testing in Production which lets you route some of your traffic to another slot that may contain a newer version of the site that you'd like to test.

Galin Iliev shows how to automate Testing in Production in Azure Websites in order to automatically control how much traffic we route to each slot. Galin shows the Testing in Production extension, and talks about the data that the runtime provides you in order to make a decision.

Guy Burstein demos how to create a simple GitHub bot that interacts with GitHub for automating processes.

Guy Burstein talks with Scott about community contributions to Azure SDK's and documentation, and shows the new and simplified process for signing contribution license agreements.

Joseph Idziorek talks about management of Elastic Scale and how to move partitions from one shard to another. Areas covered in this video: Managing shards based on split, merge and move operations Stepping through a shard move example Useful topics and links: Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Overview Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale Topics

Joseph Idziorek talks about the Azure SQL Databases pricing tiers and shows Scott how easy it is to scale up and down thier SQL Databases in Azure.

How do we scale out databases in Azure? Joseph Idziorek talks about multi-tenant environments vs. single tenant environments, and how our apps should deal with them. Areas covered in this video: Demonstrating the Elastic Scale Starter Kit Working with the **shardMap object, the **MultiShardConnection object, and the **MultiShardDataReader object Useful topics and links: Azure SQL Database Elastic...

Apurva Joshi (AJ) shows Scott how to use the Azure Websites Migration Assistant to migrate an on-premises site to the cloud in just a few clicks. Areas covered in this video: Migrating a Website (IIS 6.0, SQL 2005, ASP.NET 2.0) running on Windows Server 2003 to Azure Accessing the Azure Websites Migration Assistant tool Understanding the Readiness Report and Readiness Assessment Completing options...

Mark tells Scott all about how to run compute intensive jobs at scale in the cloud. Areas covered in this video: Azure batch example scenarios View Azure batch service in the Azure portal Review an Azure Batch OCR Demo Service Use the Batch Explorer and Heat Map Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Batch Azure Batch Technical Overview Getting Started with the Azure Batch Library for .NET

Matt talks about Azure HDInsight - Hadoop running on Azure, that allows customers process big data. Areas covered in this video: Understanding examples of using Hadoop in Azure Understanding big data Using Azure to create a data cluster Writing a hive query Useful topics and links: Introduction to Hadoop in HDInsight Learning map for HDInsight HDInsight (Hadoop) Documentation

Donna Malayeri demos how to integrate Push Notifications on both the client and the .NET backend with Azure Mobile Services. Areas covered in this video: Adding a Pushing Notification to a Window Universal project Selecting a mobile service Understanding the client and backend push notification code Sending a Push Notification Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Mobile Services - Documentatio...

Donna and Scott having fun talking about Azure Mobile Services Offline Sync, and how to make apps offline enabled. Areas covered in this video: Making a Windows Quick Start app offline-enabled Using NuGet to add Azure Mobile Services SQLiteStore Understanding the Sync code Running the service Handling conflicts Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Mobile Services - Documentation

Donna Malayeri shows Scott how to build an Azure Mobile Service with .NET backend, and talks about the Visual Studio integration and debugging capabilities. Areas covered in this video: Creating a Mobile Service Using the Quick Start Understanding the API Understanding the functionality available through Azure Running locally Publishing and debugging in Azure Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azu...

Santosh Balasubramanian talks about how Azure Stream Analytics helps to address data that is always in motion. Areas covered in this video: Examples of moving data Defining Azure Stream Analytics and what it provides Writing your stream processing in SQL How to create a Stream Analytics solution Useful topics and links: Azure Stream Analytics Introduction to Azure Stream Analytics Get started usin...

Santosh Balasubramanian shows the Live dashboard and Notifications in Azure Stream Analytics, and talks about how to operationalize streamed data. Areas covered in this video: Making real-time decisions based on live data Augmenting static data with stream data Streaming notifications Using a SQL query to determine when to take action Scaling using streaming units Useful topics and links: Introduc...

Kundana Palagiri talks about Octopus VM Extension - a third party automated deployment tool that simplifies deployment across multiple machines. Areas covered in this video: Explaining the purpose of the Octopus VM Extension Explaining deployments across multiple machine Adding Octopus on the VM Viewing the Octopus portal Understanding environments and projects Using PowerShell to install Octopus...

Kundana Palagiri shows Scott how to extend the VM functionality with VM Extensions. Kundana explains the following in this video: VM Extensions is software provided by either Microsoft or by trusted third-party providers for Azure VMs to extend the functionality of the VM. Windows and Linux are supported by VM Extensions. Deploy to a running VM or a new VM. Programmability support. Update life cyc...

Dan Rosanova talks more deeply about Azure Service Bus techniques with common patterns in Distributed Messaging Areas covered in this video: Correlation IDs Read Receipts ReplyTo Queues Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Christine Avanessians tells Scott all about the new VM Marketplace in Azure and shows what it takes for him to get there and sell his VMs. Areas covered in this video: Stepping through the Azure ecosystem Viewing the available VMs on the Azure Marketplace Reviewing the Microsoft Certification Test Tool Reviewing the Microsoft Azure Publishing portal Useful topics and links: Azure Virtual Machines

Guy Bowerman shows Scott how easy it is to run LAMP on Azure VMs. Areas covered in this video: Creating a VM with a LAMP Stack using Microsoft Azure Logging in to the VM Reviewing and running the control script for the LAMP stack Verifying that Apache, PHP, and MySQL are running Accessing and viewing the Web server page Installing the LAMP stack manually Useful topics and links: How to create a LA...

Mat Velloso explains how to create applications and services in Azure that an authenticate again Azure AD. How do you access data "on behalf of" a user in a secure way. Let's make apps that access a users' calendar or mailbox in the cloud! We'll do it for real, using C# and Visual Studio, but talking JSON and REST over HTTPS. Be sure to watch this short companion video on REST in a cloud...

Mat Velloso explains how to create applications and services in Azure that get permission to access OTHER applications like SharePoint! We'll dig into the URL Structure of these services, see how to get events when things are updated, and figure out how ODATA and REST fit into these cloud building blocks. Be sure to watch this short companion video on REST in a cloud context: HATEOAS, REST, and Hy...

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Dead Letter Messaging and Properties, and extends on the PubSeb example in the 102 video. Areas covered in this video: Properties Dead Letter Handling TTL - Time to Live Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Topics, Queues and Relays. In this 102 episode, Dan expands on the concept of Topics Areas covered in this video: What are topics and why do you need them? How does PubSub work? How do you create Brokered Messages? Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

Scott learns even more about Azure Automation from Beth Cooper. Beth shows some advanced internals with some useful PowerShell scripts that show you exactly how to use Automation in a secure way. She shows how to next runbooks, share functions and variables, and mange your connection to Azure correctly. We cover: Certification and Subscription Management Runbook libraries Architecting your jobs by...