Azure Friday

<p>Yashesvi Sharma joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to significantly reduce costs up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go prices with one-year or three-year terms on Windows and Linux virtual machines (VMs). When you combine the cost savings gained from Azure RIs with the added value of the Azure Hybrid Benefit, you can save even more.Jump To:[04:59] Demo Start For more information:Prepay for Virtual Machines with Azure Reserved VM Instances (docs)Azure Reserved VM Instances (RIs)Azure Virtual Machine pricingAzure Hybrid BenefitGet Reserved Instance purchase recommendations based on usage pattern (blog)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureBilling</p>

<p>Xiaokai He joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure SignalR Service. See how easy it is to start building your real-time web application without setting up your own SignalR server.Jump To: [01:05] Demo Start For more information, see:Azure SignalR Service product pageAzure SignalR samples (GitHub)ASP.NET SignalRWhat is Azure SignalR Service (docs)Azure SignalR Service pricingCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @XiaokaiHe Follow @signalr</p>

<p>Kiran Madnani chats with Scott Hanselman about Azure Monitor, where you can set up alerts to monitor the metrics and log data for the entire stack across your infrastructure, application, and Azure platform. Learn about the next generation of alerts in Azure, which provides a new consolidated alerts experience in Azure Monitor. Plus, new metrics-based alerts platform that is faster and leveraged by other Azure services.Jump To:[02:15] - Demo Start For more information, see:Unified alerts in Azure Monitor (docs)Azure Monitor product pageAzure Monitor pricing pageThe next generation of Azure Alerts has arrived (blog post)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Kmadnani</p>

<p>Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure App Service Web Apps, the best way to build and host web applications in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. It offers auto-scaling and high availability, supports both Windows and Linux, and enables automated deployments from GitHub, Visual Studio Team Services, or any Git repo.Jump To:[01:45] Demo #1 [09:10] Demo #2For more information:Learn more about App ServiceApp Service Web Apps docsAzure App Service Best Practices for Large Scale ApplicationsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @bktv99</p>

<p>Arturo Lucatero joins Donovan Brown to discuss Azure AD Managed Service Identity, which can be used to authenticate to any service that supports Azure AD authentication.For more information, see:What is Managed Service Identity (MSI) for Azure resources? (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @ArLucaID</p>

<p>James Baker joins Lara Rubbelke to introduce Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, which is redefining cloud storage for big data analytics due to multi-modal (object store and file system) access and combining the best qualities of a dedicated analytics file system with those of a cloud-scale object store.For more information:Introduction to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Preview (docs)Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 Public Preview signupAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2 product pageAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2 pricing pageCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Vinod Kurpad joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how Azure Cost Management APIs provide critical cost management features like budgets and data APIs to enable granular analysis of your cloud spending. In this episode, you'll see how to control what happens in your subscription when you reach budget limits you define using the Azure Budgets API with Action Groups in Azure Monitor.[05:30] - Azure Budgets APIs and Action Groups demoFor more information:Enhancements to Azure Budgets API supporting Resource Groups and Usage Budgets (blog post)Manage costs with Azure Budgets (docs)Create and manage action groups in the Azure portal (docs)Azure Consumption REST API (docs)Azure billing and cost management (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kurpad</p>

<p>Kit Merker, VP of Business Development at JFrog shows how you can easily build and release software using popular DevOps tools including Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). JFrog Artifactory is a universal package management binary repository that enables DevOps teams to go seamlessly from Code to Cloud, and support your build, push, and deployment to AKS. You'll also learn the importance of having a Kubernetes registry and the role of JFrog Artifactory to expedite your software releases with security, reliability, and greater transparency.For more information, see:Get a free trial of Artifactory on AzureWhy you need a Kubernetes Registry: JFrog ArtifactoryFrom Git to Cluster with JFrog Artifactory and AKSAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kitmerker</p>

<p>Aaron and Scott check out the latest extensions for Azure CLI. Azure CLI Extensions provide new, exciting features, and the Alias Extension is the first of many user-centric extensions that make Azure automation simple and easy.For more information, see:Azure CLI DocsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax</p>

<p>Aaron and Scott check out the latest updates in Azure PowerShell, from simplified scenarios to <code>-AsJob</code> backgrounding support. This new functionality is now available on Mac, Linux, and Windows with PowerShell Core 6.For more information:Azure PowerShell docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @twitchax</p>

<p>Peter Pogorski chats with Scott Hanselman about building Service Fabric applications with the Service Fabric for VS Code extension. This episode introduces the process of creating and debugging Service Fabric applications with the new Service Fabric extension for VS Code. The extension enables you to create, build, and deploy Service Fabric applications (e.g., C#, Java, Containers, and Guests) to local or remote clusters.For more information, see:Service Fabric Extension for VS Code (Visual Studio Marketplace)Service Fabric Extension for VS Code (GitHub repo)Azure Service Fabric Team BlogCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Brendan Burns joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss GA of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Developers can drastically simplify how they build and run container-based solutions without deep Kubernetes expertise.For more information:Quickstart: Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusterAzure Container Hackfest repo on GitHubSample: BikeSharing360Node repo on GitHubAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS) product pageAzure Kubernetes Service RoadmapNew eBook: Kubernetes objects on Microsoft AzureCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday Follow @brendandburns</p>

<p>Shrirang Shirodkar joins Donovan Brown to discuss what's new in App Service for Java developers. You'll see how Java developers can build web apps for Linux without having to deal with custom Docker containers (i.e., how to use the Tomcat Docker containers provided out of the box). How to use the new deployment mechanism in Kudu - 'wardeploy' (for Linux and Windows both). You'll learn what are the problems with existing deployment mechanisms and how wardeploy solves it.For more information, see:Use a custom Docker image for Web App for Containers (docs)Azure-App-Service/tomcat repo (GitHub)projectkudu/kudu: Deploying WAR files using wardeploy (GitHub)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @shrishrirang</p>

<p>Jayanta Mondal stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about Gremlin, the traversal query language for Cosmos DB graph. Gremlin being a dataflow language and procedural is nature, writing efficient Gremlin queries requires the knowledge of graph structure and the query execution plan. Learn how to structure a Gremlin query, and what are the best practices, and tips & tricks to get the best performance.For more information:Azure Cosmos DB product pageIntroduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Graph API (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azurecosmosdb</p>

<p>Carey MacDonald stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about Azure Cosmos DB, a managed database service with unlimited horizontal scale, allowing you to scale storage and throughput independently. In this video, Carey will cover how to partition your data in Azure Cosmos DB, best practices for choosing a partition key, and how to troubleshoot bad partition key choices.For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB product pagePartition and scale in Azure Cosmos DB (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azurecosmosdb</p>

<p>Brendan Burns joins Donovan Brown to discuss how you can quickly and easily build a containerized Node.js app on Linux and deploy it to Azure Kubernetes Service using Visual Studio Code and the Visual Studio Code Kubernetes Extension.For more information:Kubernetes Extension for Visual Studio CodeSource code for the Kubernetes Extension on GitHubCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @brendandburns</p>

<p>Azure MVP Barry Luijbregts chats with Scott Hanselman about how he goes about choosing the right services in Azure to run his applications and store his data. For more information, see:Overview of Azure servicesPluralsight course: Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (paywall)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azurebarry</p>

<p>Data Integration is becoming more and more complex as customer requirements and expectations are continuously changing. Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how users can now develop and debug their Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows iteratively using Azure Data Factory.For more information:Iterative development and debugging with Azure Data Factory (docs)Iterative development and debugging using Data Factory (blog post)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gauravmalhot12</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure Functions from Chris Gillum.For more information, see:Durable Functions overview (docs)Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension (GitHub)Azure FunctionsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Scott Hanselman gets an update on Azure Service Fabric from Matthew Snider.For more information, see:Azure Service FabricService Fabric Mesh previewService Fabric on GitHubAzure Service Fabric docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Scott Hanselman gets an update on Azure IoT Central from Miriam Berhane Russom.For more information, see:Azure IoT CentralAzure IoT Central docsAzure IoT Dev KitCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Donovan Brown chats with Abel Wang about agile development.For more information, see:DevOps Resource CenterVisual Studio Team ServicesWhat is Agile? (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @abelsquidhead</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Big Data and Analytics from Shubha Vijayasarathy.For more information, see:Big data and analyticsAzure Event HubsText Classification with SQL ServerCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Donovan Brown chats with Edward Thomson about Git and TFVC.For more information, see:DevOps Resource CenterVisual Studio Team ServicesWhat is Git?Create a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on SQL Database Migration Service from Kevin Farlee.For more information, see:SQL Database Migration ServiceWhat is the Azure Database Migration Service? (docs)Migrate SQL Server to Azure SQL Database Managed Instance using DMSCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure Machine Learning from Matt Winkler.For more information, see:Microsoft AI platformMicrosoft AI SchoolMicrosoft AI solutionsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Donovan Brown chats with Abel Wang about continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).For more information, see:DevOps Resource CenterVisual Studio Team ServicesWhat is Continuous Integration?What is Continuous Delivery?Create a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @abelsquidhead</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) from Sean McKenna.For more information, see:Try Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) docsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Scott Hanselman gets an update on Visual Studio Live Share from Jon Chu.For more information, see:Visual Studio Live ShareCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Scott Hanselman gets an update on Azure App Service from Stefan Schackow.For more information, see:Azure App ServiceAzure App Service docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Scott Hanselman gets an update on Azure Sphere from Caitie McCaffrey.For more information, see:Azure SphereAzure Sphere (azure.com)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure Monitoring and Application Insights from Shankar Sivadasan.For more information, see:Monitoring Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) with Azure Monitor container health (preview)Azure MonitorAzure Monitor docsMonitoringCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure IoT Edge from Olivier Bloch.For more information, see:Azure IoT Edge overviewAzure IoT Edge docsAzure IoT Edge (GitHub)Azure Iot Edge Starter Kit Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Cognitive Services - Languages (LUIS) from Ahmed Ashour.For more information, see:Cognitive ServicesCognitive Services (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Scott Hanselman gets an update on Azure Blockchain from Brenda Lee.For more information, see:Azure Blockchain (docs)Azure Blockchain WorkbenchCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure Container Instances from Justin Luk.For more information, see:Azure Container Instances samplesAzure Container InstancesAzure Container Instances docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Ricky Brundritt joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the rich data visualization capabilities in the Azure Maps web map control. Azure Maps is a portfolio of geospatial services that include service APIs for Maps, Search, Routing, Traffic, and Time Zones. The portfolio of Azure OneAPI compliant services allows you to use familiar developer tools to quickly develop and scale solutions that integrate location information into your Azure solutions.For more information:Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @rbrundritt</p>

<p>Ricky Brundritt joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the routing capabilities in the Azure Maps Directions API. Azure Maps is a portfolio of geospatial services that include service APIs for Maps, Search, Routing, Traffic, and Time Zones. The portfolio of Azure OneAPI compliant services allows you to use familiar developer tools to quickly develop and scale solutions that integrate location information into your Azure solutions.For more information:Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @rbrundritt</p>

<p>Azure Maps were designed with the cloud customer in mind. Learn about the cartography design process as well as the robust data behind the curtains. For more information:Azure Maps (sample)Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to use the set of time zone APIs available in Azure Maps. Learn about how this service is easy to use and how to get up to date information about time zones that change frequently around the world.For more information:Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to use the traffic APIs in Azure Maps. You will learn about how to surface the best in class traffic data coming from our partnership with TomTom using a set of simple REST APIs. Get up to date information on traffic flow as well as incidents.For more information:Azure Maps (layers sample)Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the newest search APIs that have been added to Azure Maps. In this episode, you'll learn about doing a nearby search, searching within a given geometry and how to search along a route providing a maximum detour time.For more information:Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the core set of search APIs available in Azure Maps. In this episode, you'll learn how to do geocoding, reverse geocoding, search for Points of Interest and see an example using the JavaScript map control.For more information:Azure Maps product pageAzure Maps pricing pageAzure Maps documentationCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>

<p>Ziv Rafalovich joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use low-priority VM scale set for a significant cost saving with Azure. Low-priority VM scale set allows you to take advantage of unutilized capacity without any availability guarantees. By combining low-priority scale sets with autoscaling and mixing two scale sets behind a single SLB, Ziv shows how to get the most out of this new offer currently in preview.For more information, see:Low-priority VMs on scale sets (docs)Autoscale demo app on Ubuntu 16.04 with low priority VMSSPricing Virtual Machine Scale Sets PricingLow-priority VMs on scale set (public doc)Hybrid Scale Set demo app on Ubuntu 16.04 (combining on-demand with low-priority)Announcing low-priority VMs on scale sets now in public previewCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @zivraf</p>

<p>Rome Li joins Donovan Brown to discuss how to run your Java microservices in Kubernetes with the help of Visual Studio Code. Java Extension Pack lets you work with Java code and projects. Spring Boot Extension Pack makes it very efficient to work with Spring Boot applications. And Kubernetes Extension visualizes Kubernetes resources and makes it easier to work with kubectl and manifest files.For more information:VS Code for Java TutorialJava Extension Pack for VS CodeSpring Boot Extension Pack for VS CodeKubernetes Extension for VS CodeDocker Extension for VS CodeService Catalog InstallationOpen Service Broker for Azure Quick StartCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @akalirong</p>

<p>Today's business managers depend heavily on reliable data integration systems that run complex ETL/ELT workflows (extract, transform/load and load/transform data). Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can iteratively build, debug, deploy, and monitor your data integration workflows (including analytics workloads in Azure Databricks) using Azure Data Factory pipelines. For more information:Ingest, prepare, and transform using Azure Databricks and Data Factory (blog)Run a Databricks notebook with the Databricks Notebook Activity in Azure Data Factory (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gauravmalhot12</p>

<p>Ria Bhatia joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Virtual Kubelet and Azure's provider, the ACI Connector. The ACI Connector paired with Kubernetes enables you to quickly spin out container instances from an AKS cluster. This is the fastest way to scale a Kubernetes cluster in the cloud.For more information:Kubernetes Virtual Kubelet with ACI (GitHub + docs)Container Instances pricingCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @rbitia</p>

<p>Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Azure Container Instances provide a new compute primitive in the form of on-demand containers. ACI provides efficient, granular compute that starts in seconds with simple packaging and no VM management. Use ACI in new and existing infrastructure, including Kubernetes.For more information, see:Azure Container Instances DocumentationQuickstart: Create your first container in Azure Container InstancesContainer Instances (overview)Container Instances pricingAzure Roadmap: Azure Container Instances Azure Container Instances now generally available (blog)Learn about KubernetesAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS) serviceCreate a free account (Azure)</p>

<p>Azure MVP Barry Luijbregts stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how .NET developers can easily get started with Azure. They talk about the free e-book: Getting started with Azure for .NET developers and they discuss and show some of the awesome tools that can help you get started with Azure today.For more information:Get the free e-book: Getting started with Azure for .NET developersSelecting Workloads in Visual Studio 2017Azure SDKs download pageAzure Friday about Snapshot Debugger with Application InsightsCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureBarry</p>

<p>Rick Spencer joins Donovan to chat about deploying Bitnami Node.js High Availability with Azure Cosmos DB, a free listing in Azure Marketplace that uses ARM to automatically spin up a three-node Node.js cluster behind a load balancer with a shared file system and Azure Cosmos DB integration. See how you can quickly get a sample MEAN app from GitHub to a highly available production environment in the Azure cloud, with very little configuration or sysadmin knowledge required.For more information, see:Bitnami Node.js For Microsoft Azure Multi-Tier Solutions (docs)Bitnami Node.js High-Availability Cluster (Azure Marketplace)Bitnami sample MEAN application (GitHub)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @rickspencer_3</p>