Azure Friday
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Continuous integration and deployment using Azure Data Factory
<p>Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can follow industry-leading best practices to do continuous integration and deployment for your Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows to multiple environments such as Dev, Test, Prod, and more.For more information:Continuous integration and deployment using Data Factory (Azure blog)Continuous integration and deployment in Azure Data Factory (Docs)Create a free Azure accountFollow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gauravmalhot12</p>
Common design patterns with Azure Cosmos DB
<p>Aravind Krishna stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman and take a look at common design patterns for building highly scalable solutions with Azure Cosmos DB. We will talk a little bit about modeling data and how to choose an appropriate partition key. We then look at a few patterns like event sourcing, time series data, and patterns for addressing bottlenecks/hot spots for reads, writes, and storage.For more information:Azure Cosmos DB (overview)Azure Cosmos DB (docs)Partition and scale in Azure Cosmos DBCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @arkramac</p>
Azure Security Center
<p>Kelly Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Security Center, which offers built-in security management and threat protection for your cloud workloads. Azure Security Center helps you find &amp; fix vulnerabilities, aids in blocking malicious access and alerts you when your resources are under attack. For more information:Azure Security Center documentation Azure Security blog Azure Security Center overview Azure Security Center pricing Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kellyanderson93</p>
Metaparticle - A standard library for cloud-native applications on Kubernetes
<p>Metaparticle is an experimental, cloud-native development environment for democratizing and simplifying the development of reliable distributed applications. It uses a code-first approach, so developers can describe the composite nature of their application with easy to apply patterns and practices to annotate their existing code.For more information, see:MetaparticleMetaparticle.io on GitHubMetaparticle tutorialsCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @brendandburns</p>
Backup and Recovery with Azure Files
<p>Mike Emard joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Files, which offers fully managed file shares in the cloud, and deep dive into the latest backup and restore capability in Azure Files.For more information:Introducing backup for Azure file shares (Azure blog)Overview of share snapshots for Azure Files (docs)Hybrid Storage with Azure File Sync (Azure Friday)Azure Files (overview)Create a free account (Azure)Email feedback to the Azure Storage Team: [email protected] @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>
Azure + Visual Studio + Xamarin = Great Mobile Apps
<p>James Montemagno joins Scott Hanselman to show how powerful Azure services can be used with Visual Studio and Xamarin to create cloud-connected mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows, using one toolset and development language (C#) across front-end and back-end.For more information, see:Geo Contacts app source code on GitHubData &amp; Cloud Services docs for Xamarin.FormsMobile apps using Xamarin + Azure guideCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @jamesmontemagno</p>
Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console
<p>Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console, which allows console access to Azure VMs. This allows you to connect and recover VMs which are in a stuck state due to OS or configuration issues. For more information:Azure's Virtual Machine Serial Console (docs)Announced at Ignite - Azure Compute: New features and roadmapCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Harijayms</p>
Using Habitat in Azure
<p>Nick Rycar from Chef stops by Azure Friday to chat with Donovan Brown about Habitat, a simple, flexible way to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications. Habitat makes it easier to develop and promote changes by enabling each instance of your application to continually and independently apply updates as soon as they're ready.For more information, see:Habitat (home)Habitat (docs)Habitat bldr public depotCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @rycar</p>
Get started with the Azure SDK for Go
<p>The Azure SDK for Go provides Go packages for managing and using Azure services using the Go language. Deploy your Go app to Azure Web Apps and take advantage of managed services, such as PostgreSQL, Storage, Identity, and more.For more information, see:Azure SDK for GoVanpool Manager sample applicationAzure for Go developers (docs)Azure SDK for Go SamplesCreate a Free Account (Azure) Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joshugav</p>
Using PowerShell Core with Azure
<p>Joey Aiello joins Donovan Brown to discuss PowerShell Core 6.0, a cross-platform, open-source edition of PowerShell based on .NET Core built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud. You'll also learn about how the upcoming release of OpenSSH for Windows and Windows Server will enable new ways to remotely manage your environments, as well as how PowerShell Core integrates with OpenSSH.For more information, see:What's New in PowerShell Core 6.0 (docs)OpenSSH now available in PowerShell in Cloud Shell (Azure updates)Using Windows PowerShell for Administration (sample scripts)PowerShell DocumentationPowerShell Remoting Over SSH (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joeyaiello</p>
Serverless APIs with Azure Function Proxies
<p>Alex Karcher joins Donovan Brown to discuss Azure Function Proxies, the serverless API toolbox. Proxies give you a truly serverless experience to manage your APIs with dynamic billing and scaling, and a super simple setup process.For more information, see:Azure Functions Proxies is now Generally Available (blog post)Work with Azure Functions Proxies (docs)Azure Functions samples (GitHub)Azure Functions Resources (GitHub)Create Serverless APIs Using Azure Functions (MSDN Magazine)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @alexkarcher Follow @AzureFunctions</p>
Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DB
<p>Join Kirill Gavrylyuk and Scott Hanselman to learn about native support for Apache Cassandra API in Azure Cosmos DB with wire protocol level compatibility. This support ensures you can continue using your existing application and OSS tools with no code changes and gives you the flexibility to run your Cassandra apps fully managed with no vendor lock-in. Dear Cassandra Developers, welcome to Azure #CosmosDB!Introduction to Apache Cassandra API for Azure Cosmos DBCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft</p>
What's New in Azure Cosmos DB
<p>Kirill Gavrylyuk returns to Azure Friday to update Scott Hanselman on what's new in Azure Cosmos DB, such as the Cassandra API for applications that are written for Apache Cassandra, updates to the Azure Table storage API, the Apache Spark Connector, the Graph API, partitioned collections, 99.999% (five 9s) SLA, and more.Dear Cassandra Developers, welcome to Azure #CosmosDB!Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB Table APIApache Spark to Azure #CosmosDB Connector is now generally availableAzure #CosmosDB Graph API now generally availablePartition and scale in Azure Cosmos DBCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft</p>
Container-native developer experiences, Part 3 - Brigade
<p>Join Donovan Brown &amp; Ralph Squillace to learn about Brigade, the Kubernetes-native service that creates structured container pipelines from JavaScript functions, letting you &quot;script&quot; your cluster in reaction to events. You'll also learn about Kashti, the web dashboard that shows you the status of all your Brigade projects.Brigade - Event-driven scripting for KubernetesAzure/brigade on GitHubAzure/Kashti on GitHubKubeCon 2017 Demo — Istio and Brigade CI/CDPart 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 (this episode)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @ralph_squillace</p>
Container-native developer experiences, Part 2 - Draft
<p>Join Donovan Brown &amp; Ralph Squillace to learn how to use Draft to kick start container-native development for Kubernetes applications. Draft lets you concentrate on your service code by removing the containment and service composition from most development work, which increases the speed of service development and improves the consistency of Dockerfiles &amp; Helm charts.Draft - Streamlined Kubernetes Development Helm - The package manager for KubernetesAzure/draft on GitHubPart 1 | Part 2 (this episode) | Part 3Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @ralph_squillace</p>
Container-native developer experiences, Part 1 - Overview
<p>Join Donovan Brown &amp; Ralph Squillace to learn about the open source tool chain that enables container-native, microservice-oriented app development and delivery in Kubernetes. They cover the challenges of adopting containers as a code delivery technology and some of the tools that help address them:Draft for containment and service compositionHelm for application deployment and managementBrigade for automating critical developer and operations tasksKashti for displaying the progress of Brigade pipelinesPart 1 (this episode) | Part 2 | Part 3Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @ralph_squillace</p>
Running Ansible on Azure
<p>Kylie Liang shows Donovan Brown how to run Ansible playbooks on Azure using Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. She also demonstrates how to use the Ansible extension for VS Code to accelerate Ansible playbook development using auto-completion and code snippets, and then run it inside Docker or Cloud Shell.Ansible in Azure Documentation (docs)VS Code extension for Ansible (Visual Studio Marketplace)Ansible playbook roles to get the latest Azure modules: Azure.azure_modules (Ansible Galaxy)Azure.azure_preview_modules (Ansible Galaxy)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @LiangKylie</p>
Azure Notebooks
<p>Shahrokh Mortazavi stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about Azure Notebooks, a free hosted Python/R/F# REPL for learning to program all the way to mastering Data Science.Azure NotebooksProject JupyterCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureNotebooks</p>
Spring Boot with VS Code and Azure
<p>Xiaokai He stops by to show Donovan Brown the rich Java support within VS Code, a free and open source editor, as well as how you can easily deploy your Spring Boot application to Azure Web App for Containers.For more information, see: Java in VS Code (docs)Build Java Web Apps with VS Code (docs)todo-app-java-on-azure - Sample TODO app using Java on Azure (GitHub)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday</p>
Azure Backup
<p>Even though Azure takes three copies of your virtual machines and stores them in Azure Storage, you still need to protect your data against ransomware, corruption, or accidental deletion. Kelly Anderson stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how simple it is to set up Azure Backup, how its built-in security features can protect your backup data from ransomware, and how easy it is to restore your data from Azure.For more information, see:Azure Backup Documentation Cloud Backup – Online Backup Software (overview) Storage, Backup &amp; Recovery posts on the Azure blog Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>
Visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2
<p>Gaurav Malhotra shows Donovan Brown how you can now visually build pipelines for Azure Data Factory V2 and be more productive by getting pipelines up &amp; running quickly without writing any code.For more information, see:ADF v2: Visual Tools enabled in public preview (blog)Azure Data Factory V2 Preview Documentation (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gauravmalhot12</p>
Remote debug Azure Functions written in Java using VS Code
<p>Xiaokai He shows Donovan Brown how to quickly develop and deploy serverless functions to Azure, then go inside the black box and debug functions locally, as well as remotely in the cloud.For more information, see:Serverless Java Apps with VS Code (docs)Azure Functions Java developer guide (docs)Azure Functions (overview)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday </p>
Apache Spark Connector for Azure Cosmos DB
<p>Emily Lawton stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about the Azure Cosmos DB Spark Connector, which enables Azure Cosmos DB to act as an input source or output sink for Apache Spark jobs.For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB Spark WikiCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @emilymlawton</p>
Azure SQL Data Warehouse compute optimized performance tier
<p>Ron Ortloff talks with Scott Hanselman about the new Azure SQL Data Warehouse compute optimized tier that enables you to analyze ever growing amounts of data more easily, and how the team used NVM Express caching for up to 100x better performance.Azure SQL Data Warehouse previews 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage (blog)Faster compute optimized performance tier for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (blog)Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance tiers (Preview) (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @RonOrtloff</p>
Azure Advisor Updates
<p>Matt Wagner joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Advisor, your personalized cloud service for Azure best practices that helps you to improve availability, enhance protection, optimize performance of your Azure resources, and maximize the return on your IT budget. In this episode, you'll learn about the latest set of improvements to Advisor that enable you to attain a comprehensive view of Advisor's advice across all your subscriptions and to customize Advisor to the needs of your specific organization.Azure Advisor (overview)Azure Advisor (docs)Azure Advisor (portal)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>
Azure Analysis Services Scale Out & Diagnostics
<p>Christian Wade stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how to use Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging and query scale out. These features provide high scalability and monitoring for IT-owned &quot;corporate BI&quot; and are much easier to set up in Azure than on-premises.For more information, see:Introducing query replica scale-out for Azure Analysis Services (blog)Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @_christianwade</p>
Use the Azure portal to answer your billing questions
<p>Tommy Nguyen joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Billing in the Azure portal. If you're wondering: &quot;Where do I find a copy of my invoice?&quot; or &quot;How does an Azure service affect my overall costs?&quot; - these questions and more will be answered in this episode, which highlights features in the Azure portal to get cost and billing clarity.For more information, see:Prevent unexpected charges with Azure billing and cost management (docs)Understand your bill for Microsoft Azure (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureBilling</p>
Apache Kafka on HDInsight
<p>Raghav Mohan joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Apache Kafka on HDInsight, which added the open-source distributed streaming platform last year to complete a scalable, big data streaming scenario on Azure. The service has come a long way since - processing millions of events/sec, petabytes of data/day to power scenarios like Toyota's connected car, Office 365's clickstream analytics, fraud detection for large banks, etc. Deploy managed, cost-effective Kafka clusters on Azure HDInsight with a 99.9% SLA with just 4 clicks or pre-created ARM templates.For more information, see:Announcing Apache Kafka for Azure Hdinsight General AvailabilityApache Kafka for HDInsightStart with Apache Kafka on HDInsight (docs)Use Apache Kafka with Storm on HDInsight (docs)Apache Spark streaming (DStream) example with Kafka on HDInsight (docs)Analyze logs for Apache Kafka on HDInsight (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @theycallmeraj</p>
Jenkins CI/CD with Service Fabric
<p>In this episode, Mani Ramaswamy shows Scott Hanselman how to use Jenkins for your CI/CD pipeline with Service Fabric and run your Jenkins build server directly on the Service Fabric cluster. The Service Fabric team uses Jenkins internally for testing on Linux, and you can learn about how it is configured.For more information, see:Use Jenkins to build and deploy your Linux applications (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @sramaswamy1111</p>
Windows 10 IoT and Azure IoT Device Management Enhancements
<p>David Campbell joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Windows 10 IoT and how it enhances Azure IoT Device Management (DM) capabilities on Windows IoT, simplifying DM and aligning Azure DM with other Windows DM solutions.For more information, see: Windows 10 IoT Azure DM Blog postWindows 10 IoT Azure Device Management clientWindows 10 IoT Azure Device Provisioning Client Windows 10 IoTAzure IoT HubAzure Friday: Azure IoT Hub episodeCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>
Azure IoT Hub
<p>Olivier Bloch joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure IoT and how it is more than just about connecting IoT devices and sending telemetry to the Cloud. They also talk about Azure IoT device topics such as twins, provisioning, and lifecycle management.For more information, see:Azure IoT HubAzure IoT MXChip starter kitAzure IoT Developer CenterAzure Friday: Windows IoT and Azure IoT Device Management Enhancements episodeCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @obloch</p>
Azure Availability Zones
<p>Raj Ganapathy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new addition to Azure's resiliency offerings – Availability Zones. Azure Availability Zones are fault-isolated locations within an Azure region to help protect customers applications and data from datacenter-level failures with independent power, network, and cooling.For more information, see: Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability (blog)Overview of Availability Zones in Azure (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>
Open Service Broker for Azure
<p>In this episode, Sean McKenna shows Scott Hanselman the Open Service Broker for Azure, an easy way to connect applications running in platforms like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry to some of the most popular Azure services, using a standard, multi-cloud API.For more information, see:Open Service Broker API (org site)Open Service Broker for Azure project (GitHub)Kubernetes Service Catalog project (GitHub)Custom Services Overview (Cloud Foundry docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @seanmckmsft</p>
Azure Maps
<p>Chris Pendleton joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Maps (Location Based Services), which is a portfolio of geospatial service APIs natively integrated into Azure that enables developers, enterprises, and ISVs to create location-aware apps and IoT, mobility, logistics, and asset tracking solutions. The portfolio currently comprises of services for Map Rendering, Routing, Search, Time Zones and Traffic.For more information, see:Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @chrispendleton</p>
Durable Functions in Azure Functions
<p>Chris Gillum joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a new extension of Azure Functions known as Durable Functions. Durable Functions is a programming model for authoring stateful, reliable, and serverless function orchestrations using C# and async/await.For more information, see: Durable Functions overview (docs)Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions (GitHub repo)Durable Functions and Bindings Extensibility Preview Announcement (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @cgillum</p>
Azure Free Account
<p>Amber Bhargava joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new Azure free account. The new Azure free account provides Azure customers US $200 credit for first 30 days to experiment with a combination of services. Now it also includes 12-months of popular free services and 25+ always free services to learn and explore Azure further.For more information, see:Create a Free Account (Azure)Azure Free Account FAQCreate services included with Azure free account (docs)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday</p>
Using Web App for Containers in a Multi-Tier Application
<p>Ahmed Elnably joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a sample project, Developer Finder, that was created to showcase how to use Web App for Containers in the context of a multi-tiered application.For more information, see:Azure App Services (demo app) Web App For ContainersCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @elnably</p>
Azure Analysis Services: Desktop PowerBI to the Cloud
<p>The new web modeling experience for Azure Analysis Service can supersize the models that you have built for Power BI. In this episode, Josh Caplan will show how you can take data models that were built inside the Power BI desktop and easily convert them to Azure Analysis Services models. You can then use all the Power of Azure Analysis Services to scale your model to hundreds or even thousands of users.For more information, see:Import Power BI Desktop files into Azure Analysis Services (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joshcaplan1984</p>
Azure CDN: Dynamic Site Acceleration
<p>Richard Li joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA) optimization for Azure CDN, and how it can be used in combination with standard CDN caching features to measurably improve the performance of web pages with dynamic content. For more information, see:Dynamic Site Acceleration via Azure CDN (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @richyli</p>
Azure App Service Diagnostic and Troubleshooting Experience
<p>Steve Ernst joins Scott Hanselman to introduce App Service diagnostics, which is the home for diagnosing and troubleshooting problems with your app. This intelligent service was built to diagnose many different problems and suggest targeted solutions for the customer. For more information, see: Announcing the general availability of Azure App Service diagnostics (blog)New App Service Support Center (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @stevenernst131</p>
Azure Analysis Services Visual Model Editor
<p>Azure Analysis Services makes it easier to build semantic models with the introduction of its new web modeling experience. In this episode, Josh Caplan will show you just how easy it is to use this experience to create a rich semantic model on top of data stored in Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Learn how to empower your business users to build their own reports with data at cloud scale.For more information, see: Learn the latest on Azure Analysis Services (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joshcaplan1984</p>
Java in Azure Functions
<p>Xiaokai He joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how easy it is for you to use Java to create an Azure Function, and then test &amp; debug it locally before pushing it to the cloud. You can also use VS Code to implement lightweight Java applications such as Azure Functions.For more information, see: Announcing the preview of Java support for Azure Functions (blog)Create your first function with Java and Maven (docs)Azure Functions Java developer guide (docs)GitHub repositoryJava in VS Code (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @XiaokaiHe</p>
Azure DDoS Protection Service
<p>JR Mayberry joins Scott Hanselman to discuss protecting applications on Azure from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks with the Azure DDoS Protection service. Azure resources now have access to the same DDoS Protection technology that protects other Microsoft online services, such as Xbox Live and Office 365.For more information, see:Azure DDoS Protection Service (product page)Azure DDoS pricing InformationAzure DDoS Protection (docs)Request to register for the limited previewCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azureddos</p>
Azure Batch Rendering Service
<p>Dave Fellows joins Donovan Brown to chat about a new service called Azure Batch Rendering, which is built on the Azure Batch service to provide capabilities for rendering 3D graphics for film and other visual media projects. The service provides pay-per-use licensing of the commercial applications commonly used in this field. For more information, see: Azure Batch Rendering (overview)Azure Batch Rendering (docs)Azure Batch Applications (BatchLabs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dave_fellows</p>
What’s New in Azure Cosmos DB’s API for MongoDB
<p>Emily Lawton joins Scott Hanselman to discuss what's new in Azure Cosmos DB's API for Mongo DB, including new preview features such as support for the aggregation pipeline and unique indexes. They discuss tips and tricks for importing large backups using MongoDB Tools.For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB: API for MongoDBAzure Cosmos DB: Import MongoDB Data Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @emilymlawton</p>
Get Intelligent Insights for Improving Azure SQL Database Performance
<p>Veljko Vasic shows Seth Juarez how Azure SQL Database uses built-in intelligence to continuously monitors database usage so that it can detect disruptive events that cause poor performance. Once detected, a detailed analysis is performed generating a diagnostic log with an intelligent assessment of the issue, which consists of a root cause analysis of the database performance issue and recommendations for performance improvements where possible (i.e., intelligent insights).For more information, see:Monitor Database Usage with Intelligent InsightsMonitor Azure SQL Database using Azure SQL Analytics (Preview) in Log AnalyticsCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @sethjuarez Follow @AzureFriday Follow @drveljko</p>
Improve Azure SQL Database Performance with Automatic Tuning
<p>Veljko Vasic demos the built-in automatic tuning intelligence mechanism in Azure SQL Database to show Seth Juarez how it can automatically tune and improve query performance by dynamically adapting the database to your workload. Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database might be one of the most important features that you can enable on Azure SQL Database to optimize the performance of your queries. For more information, see: Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database Automatic tuning in SQL Server Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @sethjuarez Follow @AzureFriday Follow @drveljko</p>
Azure Building Blocks 2.0 (azbb)
<p>Telmo Sampaio joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Building Blocks 2.0 (azbb), which is an open-source command line tool and set of Azure Resource Manager templates designed to simplify deployment of Azure resources. It enables you to use infrastructure as code in Azure without worrying about the complexity of ARM resources. For more information, see: Building Blocks (GitHub) Simplifying Resource Deployment (GitHub) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @telmo_sampaio</p>
Container Orchestration Simplified with Managed Kubernetes
<p>Gabe Monroy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Container Service (AKS), Microsoft's new managed Kubernetes service. Now you can easily manage your Kubernetes environment by simplifying the deployment, management, and operations activities without sacrificing portability. You gain all the benefits of Kubernetes without the complexity and operational overhead. For more information, see: Azure Container Service (docs) Azure Container Service (overview) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gabrtv</p>
Azure Container Registry Geo-replication
<p>Steve Lasker joins Donovan Brown to explain Azure Container Registry (ACR) Geo-replication. With ACR, you can now manage your global Azure footprint as one resource, enabling network-close deployments of your Docker containers. With regionalized WebHooks, you can deploy regions as your images arrive. For more information, see: Azure Container Registry (overview) Geo-replication in Azure Container Registry (docs) Azure Container Registry SKUs (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @SteveLasker</p>