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

Cale and Sujit talk to Pranav Rastogi who is a Program Manager for the Redis Cache Service.

Media File:

http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode67.mp3 

Azure Cache info:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cache/

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41937 

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41937 

Cloud and Enterprise Symbol Set v2.08

The Azure Symbol Set is now the updated and expanded Cloud and Enterprise Symbols.

Some cool demo scenarios w/ Barracuda that recently came out – videos look good and useful  

Deploying Multi-Tier Architecture in Azure, 

                1. Overview -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B27WqIbbfw

                2. Demo :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtMkZyhhl28

Publishing and Securing your Sharepoint Application 

1. Overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJcmmLGV_o
2. Demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QDRFaU02o

Securing High Business Impact (HBI) Applications in Azure 

                1. Overview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Asqg1rV-UY

                2. Demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyd-l8z6gYM

http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/02/26/sunny-and-swarmy-in-azure

Docker Machine, Swarm and Compose capabilities released to Beta.

https://msopentech.com/blog/2014/11/07/creating-asp-net-vnext-docker-container-using-mono-2/

 Running ASP.Net vNext in Docker on Linux

New Azure Training Kit: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8396

Delivered via Platform Installer. Called Azure Readiness Content

 Why caching?

History of caching on Windows

Cache Service (Preview) gives you access to a secure, dedicated cache that is managed by Microsoft.

In-Role Cache - Use the memory in your VM or cloud service as a distributed cache

Programming the cache

Capacity Planning http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/dn386139.aspx

Monitor Windows Azure Cache Service

Learn how to monitor and configure key performance metrics through the Windows Azure Management Portal.

Troubleshooting and debugging for Windows Azure Cache Service

Change diagnostic level via log files or programmatically.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode20.mp3

Links & Updates:

Windows-based Oracle software images are now generally available.

Dear Azuresupplies unique answers to all of your cloud questions. Want to host your Java application in the cloud? Need to scale resources dynamically? Answers to these and many more are featured on DearAzure.com.   

Windows Azure Traffic Manager now supports Windows Azure Web Sites 

HDInsight: Hadoop 2.2 support is now GA.