Did you know that Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available as a managed service not just in Azure, but also at the edge? Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can also deploy it on Windows IoT operating system. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - AKS hybrid options on Windows 03:20 - Exploring AKS Edge Essentials 05:00 - Deploy as code 06:50 - Sample application 17:07 - git remote -v 21:17 - Wrap-up Recommended resources AKS Edge Essentials AKS Edge Essentials playlist AKS E...
Mar 10, 2023
Hansjoerg Scherer joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to deploy your mission-critical workload in an Azure landing zone. For enterprises, a mission critical workload is expected to integrate with resources owned by centralized platform team. They control and govern the shared infrastructure for the entire organization. Connectivity and governance controls influence where and how the application is deployed in your corporate tenant. Learn about the best practices for deploying your workload in t...
Feb 20, 2023
Gavin Aguiar and Shreya Batra join Scott Hanselman to discuss the v2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python, which provides an Azure Functions development experience that is more familiar to Python developers. Key features include triggers and bindings declared as decorators, a simplified folder structure, and support through easy-to-reference documentation. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:18 - Azure Functions backgrounder 04:30 - v2 programming model for Python 06:40 - VS Code exte...
Feb 10, 2023
Sebastian Bader joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use health modeling to minimize downtime of your mission-critical workloads on Azure. With health modeling, you don't only see the health status of the entire system, you also see the dependencies between your components and an intuitive indication of degraded components. See exactly where to start your investigations to quickly find the root cause and the cascading impacts caused by the incident. This is the second episode on running mis...
Jan 30, 2023
Davide Mauri joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a recently announced feature of Azure SQL DB that makes integration with REST APIs incredibly easy. A new system function enables Azure SQL DB to call any HTTP REST API securely: call an Azure Function, send a message to Event Hub, execute a DAX query in Power BI, enrich data with Cognitive Services, etc. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:15 - Background discussion 06:21 - Demo 1: Calling an Azure Function 10:02 - Demo 2: Query a GraphQL service 12:05...
Jan 23, 2023
It's crucial to test recent changes before rolling them out to production, especially for mission-critical workloads. You want to be sure that the system is resilient after the latest code update. Combined with load testing, you can be confident that the system will maintain the expected performance. Heyko Oelrichs and Martin Šimiček join Scott Hanselman to show how integrating automated tests early in the development process will enable you to deploy new releases with high quality. Chapters 00:...
Jan 09, 2023
The cloud costs money and you want to control that. Barry 'Azure Barry' Luijbregts and Scott Hanselman cover what things cost money in the cloud, how to analyze and track costs, and practical tips to reduce costs to help manage your cloud spending. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - What costs money in the cloud? 06:43 - Managing costs 12:23 - Reporting costs 15:14 - Reducing costs 25:09 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Optimize your Azure costs Use Azure Spot Virtual Machines Cost Management ...
Dec 19, 2022
Mainframe and midrange systems have been at the core of many organizations for their mission-critical workloads. Cristina Potra joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how these systems can be migrated to Azure with the migration frameworks, partners, and expertise. Learn about modernization complexities, strategies, and documentation to cater to every unique customer's needs. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:35 - Modernization Journey Roadmap 08:12 - Modernize mainframe and midrange data 10:11 - Gu...
Dec 16, 2022
Have you ever tried to deploy to Azure with ARM templates, but found them too difficult or overwhelming to learn? Alex Frankel joins Scott Hanselman to show how Bicep—an abstraction on top of ARM templates—gives you all the same power and flexibility, but in a modern, safe, declarative language. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:30 - Demo - a Bicep file from scratch 16:15 - Demo - transpiling with az bicep build 19:40 - Demo - adding a parameter for a name prefix 23:40 - Demo - unplanned debuggin...
Nov 28, 2022
Drew Skwiers-Koballa shows Scott Hanselman a new option for developing with Azure SQL Database: The Azure SQL Database emulator, which is a containerized database for a desktop dev experience. Use your favorite client OS and dev tools for cloud development without the cloud. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:54 - Modern microservices-demo application overview 04:10 - Database Projects and Integration with VS Code 15:43 - Deployment using GitHub Actions 18:46 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What i...
Nov 11, 2022
Amar Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Confidential Computing protects data in use and helps you achieve data security and data privacy goals within a managed cloud environment. Confidential VM's protect VM-based workloads with memory encryption and code integrity for VM and container workloads. Attestation helps you remotely verify the entire VM is a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:20 - Azure Confidential Computing 04:00 - Creatin...
Oct 27, 2022
Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL enables developers to build scalable PostgreSQL apps. Kirill Gavrylyuk and Charles Feddersen join Scott Hanselman to explain Distributed SQL PostgreSQL in Azure Cosmos DB. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:12 - Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL demo 09:36 - Demo loading data from Azure Storage and sharding 15:34 - Demo creating a replica for reduced latency 21:56 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL Use Azure Cosmos DB for free Azure Cosmos DB...
Oct 26, 2022
Estefani Arroyo joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Azure Cosmos DB desktop tools for developing, querying, and testing your applications. The Azure Cosmos DB Linux Emulator provides a high-fidelity emulation of the Azure Cosmos DB service. The Azure Data Studio Cosmos DB API for Mongo DB extension enables you to connect to your Mongo resources and query your data using the mongo shell. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:03 - Emulator configuration options 02:20 - Emulator pre-requisites 04:36 -...
Oct 12, 2022
Going from your local development environment to the cloud can be challenging. Savannah Ostrowski joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Developer CLI (azd) uses a set of developer-friendly commands that map to key stages in your workflow and idiomatic application templates to accelerate the time it takes you to get started on Azure. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - Code to Cloud Journey 04:04 - Azure Developer CLI templates 05:42 - Exploring with a sample app 11:57 - azd CLI demo 21:0...
Oct 11, 2022
Front-end web applications often call back-end APIs for data and services. Annina Keller joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Static Web Apps provides built-in serverless API endpoints via integration with Azure services, including Azure App Service, Azure API Management, Azure Container Apps, and Azure Functions. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:18 - Simple demo 10:30 - Demo with OAuth and API Management 17:50 - Wrap-up 18:40 - Resources Recommended resources Overview of API support in Azure...
Sep 26, 2022
Lakshmi Murthy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to build your enterprise data model using Azure Synapse database templates to add rich business context to your data and drive meaningful analytics. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Azure Synapse database templates 04:54 - Demo: Creating a lake database 10:35 - Demo: Customizing and querying 17:04 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Lake database templates Announcing GA of Database Templates in Azure Synapse Analytics How-to: Create a lake databa...
Sep 13, 2022
Elizabeth Barnitt joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demo GraphQL support in Azure API Management, which allows you to import, validate, secure, and augment GraphQL APIs in Azure. Azure API Management enables you to both govern your existing GraphQL servers and build one from scratch with Synthetic GraphQL, which allows you to combine your existing REST and SOAP endpoints into a single, easy to query endpoint. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:23 - What is GraphQL? 11:34 - Demo - Import a Graph...
Aug 29, 2022
Managing concurrent access to a resource, be it a row, a table, or a single value, is easy if no one is trying to modify the underlying data. But what happens if someone changes data while someone else is reading it? Even better, what could happen if two or more users try to change the same data at the same time? Well, there are a couple of options. The easiest is to just ask everyone to queue up, the other is to have multiple versions of the data available over time so that no one must wait for...
Aug 12, 2022
Rong Zhang and Tats Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated Azure Kubernetes Services diagnostics experience. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:53 - Get the extension + connect to Azure 03:18 - Extension features 05:32 - AKS Periscope 06:47 - Navigational features 07:24 - Cluster properties 08:25 - Creating workflows 09:43 - Azure Service Operator 11:05 - Wrap-up Recommended resources AKS tools and diagnostics in VS Code AKS Extensio...
Aug 11, 2022
Davide Mauri is back with Lara Rubbelke to discuss columnstore indexes. In a typical relational database data is stored per row. This means that all row columns are saved together, which is great in all those cases where you want to retrieve all the information related to a specific row. But what if you want to have all the data stored in a subset of columns but for all the rows? That would be complex and slow—unless data was saved per-column instead of per-row. That's exactly what columnstore i...
Aug 10, 2022
Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes extensibility model, which makes any Kubernetes cluster outside of Azure a target location for many Azure services. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:58 - Extensibility model 04:54 - Azure portal 09:20 - Demo, Part 1 16:30 - Demo, Part 2 17:50 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Arc landing zone accelerator for hybrid and multi-cloud What is Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes? Azure Arc Jumpstart Jumpstart ArcBox - Overview Cre...
May 31, 2022
If you are familiar with the Event Sourcing and CQRS patterns, then you know that they are extremely powerful, but can be quite complex to implement correctly. Davide Mauri joins Lara Rubbelke to show temporal tables give you the same benefits without the related challenges. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:28 - Demo using temporal tables 06:11 - Demo using 'as of' 07:36 - Demo for a range of time 08:32 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Getting started with temporal tables Configure temporal reten...
May 20, 2022
Bruno Borges joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Java development with Microsoft. Like many of our customers, Microsoft is a Java shop with lots of systems that rely on Java and its ecosystem. We employ thousands of Java engineers, run millions of JVMs, and process terabytes of data every day, to deliver the services everyone loves. We also built tools and services specifically designed for Java developers and applications. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:53 - Java usage at Microsoft 04:55 - Mi...
May 17, 2022
In recent years, developers pushed for relational databases to be more flexible and open to the many different formats (e.g., JSON, graph, and spatial) to store and manipulate data. Davide Mauri joins Lara Rubbelke to show how Azure SQL Database enables you to take advantage of the rock-solid foundation of relational databases with the flexibility offered by non-relational models. And best of all, it's seamlessly integrated to empower you to choose the best technology for the job. Chapters 00:00...
Apr 26, 2022
John Downs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to design, architect, and build multitenant solutions on Azure. If you're building a SaaS product or another multitenant service, there's a lot to consider when you want to ensure high performance, tenant isolation, and managing deployments. We'll walk through some example SaaS architectures and see how Microsoft provides guidance to help you to build a multitenant solution on top of Azure. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:23 - Multitenancy in the ...
Apr 25, 2022
In the first of a series of episodes about Azure SQL Database, Davide Mauri joins Lara Rubbelke to give an overview of Grouping Sets and Windowing Functions, which can make you, your solution, and your code much more efficient. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:01 - Discussion 03:58 - Grouping Sets 11:56 - Windowing Functions 25:11 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure SQL Database Azure SQL documentation Azure SQL Database code samples Write queries that use window functions 10 reasons to use Az...
Apr 24, 2022
Henk Boelman joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how AI can help to create more accessible experiences with Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services, and Azure Media Services. They will look at the AI building blocks available in Azure and see how these building blocks can be applied. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:32 - Henk's demo environment using Jupyter notebooks 05:28 - Computer Vision demo 10:42 - Custom Vision demo 16:59 - Face demo 20:20 - Handwriting example 20:59 - Text to speec...
Apr 08, 2022
John Stallo joins Scott Hanselman to introduce Azure’s new, fully managed load testing service that enables developers and testers to generate high-scale load and gain actionable insights to catch performance bottlenecks at scale. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:07 - Getting Started with Azure Load Testing 05:43 - Running a load test 08:54 - How did the application components behave? 15:00 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Load Testing What is Azure Load Testing Preview? Quickstart: Create ...
Mar 31, 2022
Learn how to use the new Azure Cosmos DB indexing metrics to improve query performance. Tim Sander shows Scott Hanselman how to obtain, interpret, and make changes based on the indexing metrics. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:23 - Default indexing policy 04:18 - Optimizing for write performance 07:23 - Index metrics 09:32 - Composite indexes 16:42 - Roadmap insights 18:00 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Optimize query performance with Azure Cosmos DB indexing metrics Troubleshoot query issues ...
Mar 25, 2022
Isaac Levin from Elastic joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Elastic Cloud on Azure. Elastic Cloud is an Elasticsearch and Kibana managed service - with solutions for enterprise search, observability, and security. Running Elastic on Azure enables you to take data from any source - reliably and securely, in any format - then search, analyze, and visualize that data in real time. Elastic on Azure users experience frictionless integration directly within the Azure portal, allowing for faster time to ...
Feb 15, 2022
