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-Enterprise
Develop your first Spring Boot app - https://aka.ms/Start-Spring
Learn using a self-paced workshop - https://aka.ms/Learn-Spring
Watch bite-size demos - https://aka.ms/Spring-Playlist
Leverage best practices - https://aka.ms/Spring-Boot
Build and deploy Java apps on Azure - https://aka.ms/LearnJava
Interact with Azure services using Spring - https://aka.ms/Spring-Cloud-Azure

Technical Case Stories
FedEx - https://aka.ms/FedEx
National Life Group - https://aka.ms/National-Life
Digital Realty Trust - https://aka.ms/DLR
Swiss Re - https://aka.ms/Swiss-Re
Raley's - https://aka.ms/Raley'
Liantis - https://aka.ms/Liantis
Kroger - https://aka.ms/Kroger-on-Azure
Morgan Stanley - https://aka.ms/Morgan-Stanley
Bosch - 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/

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

Resources:

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

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

Resources: 

Overview: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction

• Microsoft Defender for Servers
• Microsoft Defender for Storage
• Microsoft Defender for SQL
• Microsoft Defender for Containers
• Microsoft Defender for App Service
• Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
• Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
• Microsoft Defender for DNS
• Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases
• Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB (Preview)
• Microsoft Defender for IoT https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/iot-defender/#overview

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/

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/

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

Resources:

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/

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

Resources:

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

Updates:

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

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)

Other updates:

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

Other updates:

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/

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

Other updates:

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/

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

Resources:

Front Door Announcement

Updates:

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

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