The Azure Podcast
Our resident expert on all things Java on Azure, Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, gives us all the latest updates on running your Java workloads on various Azure services. He also dives into the newly renamed Azure Spring Apps service which now has more SKUs to address various use-cases.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode428.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/PaMaWij21N0
Resources:
Start Enterprise - https://aka.ms/spring-apps-EnterpriseDevelop your first Spring Boot app - https://aka.ms/Start-SpringLearn using a self-paced workshop - https://aka.ms/Learn-SpringWatch bite-size demos - https://aka.ms/Spring-PlaylistLeverage best practices - https://aka.ms/Spring-BootBuild and deploy Java apps on Azure - https://aka.ms/LearnJavaInteract with Azure services using Spring - https://aka.ms/Spring-Cloud-Azure
Technical Case StoriesFedEx - https://aka.ms/FedExNational Life Group - https://aka.ms/National-LifeDigital Realty Trust - https://aka.ms/DLRSwiss Re - https://aka.ms/Swiss-ReRaley's - https://aka.ms/Raley'Liantis - https://aka.ms/LiantisKroger - https://aka.ms/Kroger-on-AzureMorgan Stanley - https://aka.ms/Morgan-StanleyBosch - https://aka.ms/Bosch.IO
Other Updates:
See how 3 industry-leading companies are driving innovation in a new episode of Inside Azure for IT
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/see-how-3-industryleading-companies-are-driving-innovation-in-a-new-episode-of-inside-azure-for-it/
Responsible AI investments and safeguards for facial recognition
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/responsible-ai-investments-and-safeguards-for-facial-recognition/
Azure IoT increases enterprise-level intelligent edge and cloud capabilities
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-increases-enterpriselevel-intelligent-edge-and-cloud-capabilities/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-databricks-available-in-new-regions/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-sdk-for-go/
Various Load Testing updates:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-splitting-input-data-across-test-engines/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-user-specified-jmeter-properties/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-customermanaged-keys/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-userassigned-managed-identities/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-quick-start-tests-with-web-url/
General availability: Azure Data Explorer connector for Power Automate, Logic Apps, and Power Apps
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/power-platform-connector-ga/
Keywords: Java
Filed Under: Podcast
The team catches up with Sarah Novotny and Xin Liu to learn about both the network switch SONiC and why Microsoft recently transferred control of it to the Linux Foundation.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode427.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/hmyz4Qpp9e4
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Moves to the Linux Foundation
GitHub Repo
Quick Start
Updates:
General availability: Updates for resource configuration changes
Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets
Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway
Preview of Windows Admin Center for Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure - Microsoft Windows Server Blog
Keywords: Networking
Audrey Long, a Senior Security Software Engineer in Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft, discusses the Defender for the Cloud service. She explains how the service plays an important part in securing our assets and apps in Azure and other clouds as well.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode426.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/w5wG6Bf2aQY
Overview: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction
Other updates:
General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics. | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Start skilling on Azure with these helpful guides
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/start-skilling-on-azure-with-these-helpful-guides/
Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/find-out-why-your-sql-server-data-belongs-on-azure/
Keywords: Security
Special guest Mark Eisenberg (Senior CSAM at Microsoft), co-hosts with Kendall, Evan and Sujit on this special edition of the Podcast to offer his insights into the various Azure announcements at BUILD 2022.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode425.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/1xoGKpDyRxs
Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/build-2022-book-of-news/
Keywords: BUILD
Filed Under:
Our very own Cynthia Kreng, who is a PM in the Worldwide Customer Success Unit focused on Developer acceleration, talks to us about one their first offerings in API Management.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode424.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UusIj1ikvLM
Repo: https://aka.ms/EnterpriseScale-APIM
Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/app-platform/api-management/landing-zone-accelerator
Other resources:
Manage Red Hat workloads seamlessly on Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-red-hat-workloads-seamlessly-on-azure/
Accelerating innovation in the diabetic foot market with Azure Health Data Services
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/accelerating-innovation-in-the-diabetic-foot-market-with-azure-health-data-services/
Join us and the developer community to celebrate Azure Static Web Apps
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/join-us-and-the-developer-community-to-celebrate-azure-static-web-apps/
Microsoft Build 5/24-5/26
https://mybuild.microsoft.com/
Keywords: API
Kyle Teegarden, a Senior PM in the DevDiv group, gets us re-acquainted with the Redis offering on Azure and discusses all the latest features including the Enterprise tier.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode423.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xKA-w7Icn00
Azure Cache for Redis | Microsoft Azure
How to Improve Your Azure SQL Performance by up to 800% - Microsoft Tech Community
Cache-Aside pattern - Azure Architecture Center
Implement Redis Pub/Sub and Streams in Azure Cache for Redis - Learn
Optimize your web applications by caching read-only data with Redis - Learn
Quickstart: Use Azure Cache for Redis in .NET Core
Generally available: Node pool snapshot
Generally available: Scale-down mode in AKS
Public preview: Static Web Apps now supports Gitlab and Bitbucket for CI/CD
Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service
Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall
Customize your secure VM session experience with native client support on Azure Bastion
Keywords: Cache, Redis
Thomas Stringer is a Software Engineering Lead in the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft and he gives us insights into the OSM add-on for AKS and tells us why that makes applications on AKS so much more secure.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode422.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/DICsJmFSGCs
Resources: https://openservicemesh.io/
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (cncf.io)
General availability: App Service - Networking capabilities added to Basic pricing tier | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: App Service - Configure networking in Azure Portal during app creation | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
The team talks with Pujitha and Sidhanshu about Project Flash, an initiative to improve VM availability monitoring that allows for immediate actions and trend analysis at scale.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode421.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7vXz-tjQAA
Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-azure-virtual-machine-availability-monitoring-with-project-flash/
https://aka.ms/flashblog
Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-sql-database-hyperscale-reverse-migration-to-general-purpose-tier/
General availability: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-zone-redundancy-for-azure-sql-database-general-purpose-tier/
Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-purview-is-now-microsoft-purview/
Getting rid of credentials in Azure (multi-part)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/getting-rid-of-credentials-in-azure-part-1/ba-p/3265205
Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2022
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-sql-public-preview-updates-for-midapril-2022/
Generally available: IBM WebSphere on Azure with evaluation licensing
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ibm-websphere-on-azure-with-evaluation-licensing/
Keywords: Monitoring
Microsoft MVP, Director of Solution Architecture at WTW and all things Azure expert, Sam Cogan, joins us for an in-depth discussion on Infrastructure as Code. He shares his views and give us valuable tips for having a good IaC strategy.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode420.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/PlfAS6eUfzE
Blog: https://samcogan.com
Generally available: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the Ebs/Ebds v5 memory optimized Azure VM series, that deliver up to 300% increase in remote storage performance compared to prior generation VMs.
Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
No need to expose public endpoints or expose data over public internet to enable access from ADX clusters.
Update: Azure AD Graph retirement date | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Extended retirement to move to Microsoft Graph - now 31 Dec 2022 (was 30 June 22). Feature updates are going into MS Graph, not AD Graph
General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
More GB but cheaper overall, using vault-archive instead of vault-standard
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-future-is-on-fhir-for-sas-and-microsoft-azure/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-metrics-and-alerts-support-in-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-health-probes-support-in-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-visual-studio-support-for-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-visual-studio-code-extension-for-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-managed-identities-support-in-azure-container-apps/
Keywords: Infrastructure
We are fortunate to have Abhishek Tiwari, from the Azure Networking team, join us again on the podcast, this time to discuss the Front Door service.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode419.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/QrNMpugD4zA
Front Door Announcement
General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure
Public preview: Simplified compute node communication
Public preview: Azure Bastion support for Kerberos authentication
Public preview: Azure Arc integration with VMware vSphere and Azure VMware Solution
Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB partition key advisor notebook
Join us at the Innovate for Impact digital event
Keywords: Front Door
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