Balaji Sankaran, General Manager of Azure HDInsight, joins us to share the latest announcement from HDInsight - an updated, managed HDInsight service that runs on AKS, giving a better experience for hosting opensource analytics workloads in the cloud.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode476.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/RiQzpkZeT9c

Resources:

HD Insight on AKS:

• Manage your big data needs with HDInsight on AKS
• Enterprise scale open-source analytics on containers (Video)
• Get started with HDInsights on AKS
• Get in touch - Ask HDInsight

Other news:

• Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
• The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode469.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0DkkVkfw2o

Resources:

• Announcement for Fabric including the key dates and how to enable : Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft Power BI | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
• Fabric Getting started : Get started with Microsoft Fabric - Training | Microsoft Learn
• Happy Paths : Introducing the end-to-end scenarios in Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric
• Cube in a Cube (2 Microsoft Employees with some great content, who are part of the Fabric Customer Advisory Team) : (488) Guy in a Cube - YouTube

• Endjin : (488) endjin - YouTube
• Advancing Analytics :  (488) Advancing Fabric - YouTube

Other updates:

Scale generative AI with new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/azure-customer-stories-ai

Chaos Studio updates 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-supports-new-faults-for-app-service-and-virtual-machines/ 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-is-now-available-in-southeast-asia-region/ 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-has-userassigned-managed-identity-and-custom-role-assignment/

Load Testing Updates

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-for-up-to-24-hours/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-create-and-manage-tests-and-test-runs-using-azure-cli/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-with-100000-virtual-users/

The team talks to Ayush Agarwal, Davide Mauri, and Sean Leonard to learn about how the open-source Data API Builder can be used to quickly and easily create CRUD APIs on top of multiple database platforms in Azure for use in many types of applications and languages.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode457.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/pgvMa3tFg7s

Resources: 

https://aka.ms/dab

Other updates:

Public Preview: In-place scaling for enterprise caches | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Hotpatch now available for Windows Server VMs on Azure with desktop experience | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-126-support-in-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-aks-service-mesh-addon-for-istio/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-long-term-support-version-in-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/app-service-environment-v1-v2-retirement/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/unleash-the-power-of-apis-strategies-for-innovation/

Five years after his last appearance, Gaurav Malhotra comes back to talk to the team about his current work with Azure Purview.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode366.mp3

Other Resources:

Azure Purview Overview

Azure Purview Docs

Azure Purview Feedback

Azure Purview blog on Tech Community

Azure Purview discussion on Tech Community

Updates:

Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL now compatible with Spark 3.0

Customers unify hybrid and multicloud IT operations with Azure Arc

Future-proof your network with Azure for Operators

Microsoft will establish its next U.S. datacenter region in Georgia’s Fulton and Douglas Counties

Public preview: Application Insights work item integration for Azure DevOps & GitHub

LaBrina Loving, a Cloud Architect and Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering division at Microsoft, shares her recent passion with the Data Explorer service. Using a couple of real-world use-cases, she explains the rational behind the service and how developers can utilize it for a wide variety of data processing needs.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode335.mp3

Resources:

Azure Data Explorer Overview - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/data-explorer-overview

Azure Data Explorer Ingestion - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/ingest-data-overview
Getting started with KQL Queries - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/write-queries

SQL to KQL Cheatsheet - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/query/sqlcheatsheet

Other updates:

Azure Quota REST APIs to manage service limits (quota) are now available in preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-quota-rest-api-to-manage-service-limits-quota-are-now-available-in-preview/

Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-live-video-analytics-on-iot-edge-now-in-preview/
Town of Cary innovates flood prediction with IoT
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/town-of-cary-innovates-flood-prediction-with-iot/
Advancing Microsoft Teams on Azure—operating at pandemic scale
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-microsoft-teams-on-azure-operating-at-pandemic-scale/

Azure responds to COVID-19
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-responds-to-covid19/

Jie Feng, a Senior PM in the Azure Data team, gives us the low-down on the new Data Share service that went GA at Ignite. She provides use-cases for the service, tells us how it works and how to access it.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode308.mp3

Transcript: https://eus2.videoindexer.ai/accounts/e0eee289-7730-4999-978b-eb7f63be8cb5/videos/2442844626/?location=EUS2

Resources:

Demo videos: https://channel9.msdn.com/Tags/azure-data-share
Product website: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-share/
Documentations: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-share/

Other updates:

Azure Sphere guardian module simplifies & secures brownfield IoT
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-sphere-guardian-module-simplifies-secures-brownfield-iot/
Introducing maintenance control for platform updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/maintenance-control-for-platform-updates/
Networking enables the new world of Edge and 5G Computing
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/networking-enables-the-new-world-of-edge-and-5g-computing/
Building Xbox game streaming with Site Reliability best practices
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-xbox-game-streaming-with-site-reliability-best-practices/

Cale gives us the low-down on the Data Factory service.

Service details: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/data-factory/

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode74.mp3

Great guidance on Cloud Application Design and Implementation from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft. https://github.com/mspnp/azure-guidance

Upcoming Azure Bootcamp sessions: http://global.azurebootcamp.net/