Jose Moreno a Customer Engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team joins Sujit and Russell to talk about Networking, and more specifically discusses best practices for Express Route configuration and monitoring with an eye on resiliency and performance.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode488.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/KUhODMaQjEU

Resources:

• FastTrack for Azure: FastTrack for Azure – Technical Enablement FAQ | Microsoft Azure
• Azure ER Locations (not to confuse with Azure Regions): Locations and connectivity providers for Azure ExpressRoute | Microsoft Learn
• Azure Connection Monitor: Connection monitor overview - Azure Network Watcher | Microsoft Learn

Other updates:

• GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer Productivity
• Public Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKS
• TLS/TCP Proxy Preview

Paresh Mundade, a Senior PM in the Azure ExpressRoute team, gives the guys an update on the service and a glimpse into the roadmap of planned features.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode268.mp3

Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/aca83d23-620b-46d6-beec-e920bff88847/videos/976fea3a84/

Links:
NPM: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/how-to-npm
Global Reach: https://aka.ms/GlobalReach
ExpressRoute Direct: https://aka.ms/ERDirect

Other updates:

Stream Analytics now empowers every developer to easily add anomaly detection capabilities to their Stream Analytics jobs without requiring them to develop and train their own machine learning models. Ready-to-use machine learning models are provided right within the SQL language. This reduces the cost and complexity associated with building and training machine learning models to a simple single function call.

Latest enhancements now available for Cognitive Services' Computer Vision
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/latest-enhancements-now-available-for-cognitive-services-computer-vision/

Announcing Azure Integration Service Environment for Logic Apps
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-integration-service-environment-for-logic-apps/

Azure Stack laaS – part two
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-stack-laas-part-two/

Improving the TypeScript support in Azure Functions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improving-the-typescript-support-in-azure-functions/

IPFS All Hands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYPfzm9wGE&list=PLuhRWgmPaHtSGRSHdU9dbsukHKlihZZAe&index=2&t=0s

HoloLens 2
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/02/24/microsoft-at-mwc-barcelona-introducing-microsoft-hololens-2/