Christina Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show what's new in Azure Cognitive Services. Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer—without requiring machine-learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps.[0:02:00] - DemoAzure Cognitive Services overviewContainer support in Azure Cognitive ServicesEnable receipt understanding with Form Recognizer's new capabilityStart building...
Nov 15, 2019
Keiko Harada joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Prometheus to monitor containers in Azure Monitor. Prometheus is a popular open source metric monitoring solution and is a part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation. Customers who like the extensive metrics which Prometheus provides on Kubernetes also like how easy it is to use Azure Monitor for containers which provides fully managed, out of the box monitoring for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.[0:04:30] - DemoImproving observability ...
Nov 15, 2019
Most of the time, your apps are running happily and healthily. However, when things go wrong, you can use Genie and Navigator in App Service Diagnostics to figure out what's wrong. Jen Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show how the App Service Diagnostics interactive interface (Genie) guides you intelligently through the self-troubleshooting experience. Navigator, enables you to find potentially breaking changes to your app and its dependencies.[0:00:54] - DemoAzure App Service diagnostics overviewNa...
Nov 08, 2019
Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how wrangling data flows in Azure Data Factory empower you with a code-free, serverless environment that simplifies data preparation in the cloud and scales to any data size with no infrastructure management required. It uses the industry-leading Power Query data preparation technology (also used in Power Platform dataflows, Excel, and Power BI) to prepare and shape the data. Built to handle all the complexities and scale challenges of big data integ...
Nov 04, 2019
Container startup time is the price of admission, but startup time is also an inhibitor for many serverless scenarios. Steve Lasker joins Lara Rubbelke to show how Project Teleport eliminates the download and decompression of layers by directly mounting expanded layers, potentially unlocking many new scenarios.[0:02:13] - DemoAzure Container Registry Adds Teleportation blog postTeleport Preview sign-up formAzure Container Registry overviewAzure Container Registry docsCreate a free account (Azure...
Nov 01, 2019
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are rampant and it's not a question of if a business will be impacted but when. Anupam Vij shows Scott Hanselman how Azure DDoS Protection Standard can protect your applications against targeted DDoS attacks and why it is critical for every business running in Azure to use the service to enhance their security posture. If your protected applications are under attack, Azure DDoS Protection Standard provides an SLA guarantee and cost protection.[0:06:20...
Nov 01, 2019
Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the actor model of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.[00:01:36] - DemoDapr - Distributed Application Runtimedapr/dapr repo (GitHub)Announcing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), an ...
Oct 25, 2019
Aman Bhardwaj and Yaron Schneider join Scott Hanselman to talk about the core concepts of Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). Dapr is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, microservice stateless and stateful applications that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.[00:02:19] - DemoDapr - Distributed Application Runtimedapr/dapr repo (GitHub)Announcing Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a...
Oct 25, 2019
Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Gantt views to visualize your pipeline and activity runs. Look at the Gantt view per pipeline, or group by pipeline annotations/tags you create.[00:49] Demo Visually monitor Azure data factories (docs)Enhanced monitoring capabilities and tags/annotations in Azure Data Factory (Azure Friday)Azure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory docsCreate a free account (Azure)
Oct 18, 2019
Using a bastion host can help limit threats such as port scanning and other types of malware targeting your VMs. Ashish Jain joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Bastion gives you secure and seamless RDP and SSH access to your virtual machines. Now you can securely access your VMs over SSL from the Azure portal and without exposing public IP addresses.[05:20] Demo Azure Bastion overviewAzure Bastion docsDeploy Azure Bastion in an Azure Virtual Network (sample ARM template)Create a free accoun...
Oct 18, 2019
Geoff Staneff joins Donovan Brown to show how Data Accelerator for Apache Spark simplifies everything from onboarding to streaming of big data. It offers a rich, easy-to-use experience for creating, editing, and managing Apache Spark jobs on Azure HDInsight while enabling the full power of the Apache Spark engine.[01:21] Demo Microsoft open sources Data Accelerator for Apache SparkData Accelerator for Apache Spark (microsoft/data-accelerator) on GitHubAzure HDInsight overviewAzure HDInsight docs...
Oct 11, 2019
Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can run your Azure Machine Learning (AML) service pipelines as a step in your Azure Data Factory (ADF) pipelines. This enables you to run your machine learning models with data from multiple sources (85+ data connectors supported in ADF). This seamless integration enables batch prediction scenarios such as identifying possible loan defaults, determining sentiment, and analyzing customer behavior patterns.[0:02:18] DemoAzure Data Factory overv...
Oct 11, 2019
Are you tired of managing your multiple public IP addresses in Azure? Anavi Nahar joins Donovan Brown to show how Public IP Prefix enables you to use one prefix to manage your public endpoints in Azure. You can have predictable, contiguous public IP addresses that don't change as you scale. With a prefix, you can give your customers in Azure one range to simplify firewall management with predictable public IP addresses.[00:01:57] DemoPublic IP address prefixCreate, change, or delete a public IP ...
Sep 27, 2019
The performance of your applications is central to the success of your IT organization. Many factors can affect the performance of your applications including network latency which is impacted by, among other things, the physical distance between the deployed virtual machines. Ziv Rafalovich joins Donovan Brown to show how Proximity Placement Groups help you co-locate your Azure infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources and achieve lower network latency.[00:03:25] DemoIntroducing proximity pl...
Sep 27, 2019
Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to show how to run Jupyter Notebook and Apache Spark in Azure Cosmos DB. Now you can use the interactive experience of Jupyter Notebook and analytics powered by Apache Spark with your operational data. Run analytics and ML on your operational data in real time without data movement, and without the need to split into transactional and analytical silos.[00:02:18] Jupyter Notebook demo[00:05:41] Jupyter Notebook + Apache Spark demoAzure Cosmos DB overviewAzur...
Sep 20, 2019
Sydney Smith joins Scott Hanselman to show the rich editing experience provided by the PowerShell extension in Azure Data Studio by creating a SQL Server in a Linux Docker container with external storage—all using PowerShell Core in Azure Data Studio.To get started with the notebook used in the episode check out: PowerShell/vscode-powershell[00:01:36] Demo - Getting started - installing modules[00:04:45] Demo - Creating a new editor filePowerShell Editor Support for Azure Data StudioThe PowerShe...
Sep 20, 2019
Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate a sample CI/CD pipeline implemented using Azure DevOps and Azure API Management DevOps resource kit. The sample follows the suggested approach that was introduced in Build a CI/CD pipeline for API Management, Part 1.Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure API Management DevOps Resource KitAzure DevOps SolutionsCreate a free account (Azure)
Sep 13, 2019
Miao Jiang joins Scott Hanselman to walk through a conceptual framework for building a CI/CD pipeline to automate the deployment of APIs into Azure API Management. Learn about common automation challenges with API Management and how the suggested approach addresses these challenges. For a demonstration, see: Build a CI/CD pipeline for API Management, Part 2.Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure API Management DevOps Resource KitAzure DevOps SolutionsCreate a free account (A...
Sep 13, 2019
Saurya Das joins Scott Hanselman to show how multiple node pools for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) enable you to use different virtual machine sizes in a node pool supporting a variety of workloads in a single AKS cluster. For example, an e-commerce website can have a node pool for a billing service and another for a machine learning-based recommendation service, each with GPUs.[00:39] DemoPreview - Create and manage multiple node pools for a cluster in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Azure Kuber...
Sep 06, 2019
Jacob Jedryszek joins Scott Hanselman to talk about about using Cognitive Services with Azure Search with your mobile and web apps. Skip hiring search experts who know what an inverted index is. Don't worry about distributed systems expertise to scale your service to handle large amount of data. And forget about setting up, owning and managing the infrastructure. Let Azure Search do it all for you.[01:00] Creating a search index[02:37] AzSearch.js - Automagical UI and sample React controls[03:27...
Sep 06, 2019
When a live site issue or outage occurs, quickly determining the root cause is critical. Standard monitoring solutions might alert you to a problem. They might even indicate which component is failing. But this alert won't always immediately explain the failure's cause. You know your site worked five minutes ago, and now it's broken. What changed in the last five minutes? This is the question that Application Change Analysis is designed to answer in Azure Monitor.[01:09] DemoUse Application Chan...
Aug 30, 2019
Sharad Agrawal and Teresa Yao join Scott Hanselman to introduce Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door. They show how to configure and block malicious attacks against web applications at the edge of Microsoft's network. WAF with Azure Front Door is the best solution to help protect your web applications without compromising on delivery speed.[05:18] DemoAzure Front Door overviewAzure Front Door docsWhat is Azure web application firewall for Azure Front Door?Azure Front Door pricing...
Aug 23, 2019
Mike Budzynski is back to share the latest Azure API Management updates with Scott Hanselman.[01:25] Building serverless APIs with Azure Functions & API Management Consumption tier[03:40] Generating object schemas[06:30] New developer portal (now in preview) Azure API Management developer portal (azure/api-management-developer-portal)Azure API Management overviewAzure API Management docsAzure API Management resourcesGo Serverless playlistCreate a free account (Azure)
Aug 23, 2019
Ziv Rafalovich joins Donovan Brown to introduce Azure Dedicated Host, which is a service that provides physical servers - able to host one or more virtual machines - dedicated to one Azure subscription.Dedicated hosts are the same physical servers used in our data centers, provided as a resource. You can provision dedicated hosts within a region, availability zone, and fault domain. Then, you can place VMs directly into your provisioned hosts, in whatever configuration best meets your needs.[04:...
Aug 22, 2019
Danny Strockis joins Scott Hanselman to discuss decentralized identity, which gives users ownership of their digital identities and data by leveraging permissionless distributed ledgers.[04:07] Authentication concept[10:30] DemoDecentralized identity – Own your own identityDecentralized Identity Developer DocsDIF – Decentralized Identity Foundationdecentralized-identity GitHub repoCreate a free account (Azure)
Aug 16, 2019
Byron Tardif joins Scott Hanselman to show how to leverage Azure App Service features to empower your DevOps to achieve sophisticated scenarios like testing in production using deployment slots with just a few clicks.Azure App Service overviewSet up staging environments in Azure App ServiceAzure App Service docsCreate a free account (Azure)
Aug 09, 2019
Deborah Chen joins Scott Hanselman to share some best practices on how to debug and optimize Azure Cosmos DB for better performance. Watch as they go through the common issues newcomers to Azure Cosmos DB run into with respect to performance and how to solve them by tuning Request Unit (RU) cost and choosing a good partition key.Azure Cosmos DB - Globally distributed, multi-model database service for any scaleOptimize provisioned throughput cost in Azure Cosmos DBOptimize query cost in Azure Cos...
Aug 09, 2019
Jane Mareth joins Scott Hanselman to show how nonprofits with limited budgets can accelerate their cloud adoption with Azure Foundation for nonprofits. The Azure Foundation provides prescriptive scripts, documentation, and diagrams to help nonprofits quickly adopt Microsoft Azure. Azure Foundation also includes governance and security guidance specific to the most common nonprofit scenarios.Azure cloud solutions for nonprofitsGet started with Azure FoundationMicrosoft TechSparkwillstg/AzureFound...
Aug 02, 2019
Data integration is complex and has many moving parts that spans across hybrid data environments. Typically, data integration projects have dependencies upstream and downstream making dependencies an important aspect to consider in any job scheduling.Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can create dependent pipelines in Azure Data Factory by creating dependencies between tumbling window triggers in your pipelines. Using these dependencies assures you that the trigger is only exe...
Aug 02, 2019
In high performance computing (HPC) workloads, access to storage matters. In this episode, Scott Hanselman and Ron Hogue discuss the new Azure FXT Edge Filer, a new appliance that creates a powerful cache on-premises connecting network attached storage (NAS) and Azure Blob.Azure FXT Edge Filer overviewAzure FXT Edge Filer DocumentationAzure FXT Edge Filer Hybrid Storage Cache: Fast File Access and Active Archive for HPC datasheetAzure FXT Edge Filer now generally available (blog post)Create a fr...
Jul 26, 2019
