The Azure Podcast
The guys talk to Piyush Joshi who is a Senior PM in the Azure Mobile Engagement Services team. He gives us the low-down on this new offering.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode107.mp3
Here are some useful links:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/mobile-engagement/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-engagement-overview/
Recent blog post - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-mobile-engagement-december-2015-update/
Twitter handle - https://twitter.com/AzureMobileEng
Other recent updates:
Azure Data Lake now integrated with Azure Data Cataloghttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-lake-now-integrated-with-azure-data-catalog/
DocumentDB paging support with TOP and more query improvementshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/documentdb-paging-support-with-top-and-more-query-improvements/
Announcing the StorSimple Virtual Array Previewhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-storsimple-virtual-array-preview/
Glimpse at Application Insights Telemetryhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/glimpse-application-insights/
Keywords: Mobile
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The guys have a discussion on how customers can grapple with the various cloud vendors and frameworks.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode106.mp3
http://libcloud.apache.org/
http://www.openstack.org/
http://www.cloudscale-project.eu/
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/cloud/helion-eucalyptus-overview.html
Other updates:
Run U-SQL scripts locally with updated Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studiohttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/run-u-sql-scripts-locally-with-updated-azure-data-lake-tools-for-visual-studio/
Exploring Azure DocumentDB in Visual Studiohttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/exploring-azure-documentdb-in-visual-studio/
The new Recommendations feature for Azure App Servicehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-recommendations-feature-for-azure-app-service/
Azure SQL Server: To upgrade or not to upgrade, that is the questionhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-sql-server-to-upgrade-or-not-to-upgrade-that-is-the-question/
Microsoft offers new certification for Linux on Azurehttp://news.microsoft.com/2015/12/09/microsoft-offers-new-certification-for-linux-on-azure/
Keywords: Frameworks
We are fortunate to talk to Scott Zhang who is a Senior PM with the Open Source Technology group about the new release of the DSC for Linux Extensions.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode105.mp3
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introduce-azure-dscforlinux-extension/
Other resources:
Announcing general availability of AzCopy 5.0 with File and Table Storage supporthttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-azcopy-5-0-with-file-and-table-storage-support/
Announcing general availability of App Service Mobile Appshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-general-availability-of-app-service-mobile-apps/
Azure Container Service previewhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-container-service-preview/
Azure Security Center now availablehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-security-center-now-available/
Announcing availability of Debian GNU/Linux as an endorsed distribution in Azure Marketplacehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/debian-images-now-available-on-azure/
Keywords: DSC
We introduce the new concept of Azure VM Scale Sets and discuss how scaling can be achieved across Azure services.
Today we are announcing the public preview of Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets
Audio file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode104.mp3
Other updates and resources:
http://summit7systems.com/the-performance-impact-of-premium-storage-in-microsoft-azure/
Azure Preview Portal - November 2015 updatehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-preview-portal-november-2015-update/
Using Azure Machine Learning with SQL Data Warehousehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/using-azure-machine-learning-with-sql-data-warehouse/
Azure PowerShell 1.0https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azps-1-0/
Azure App Service Updates – November 2015https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-app-service-updates-november-2015/
Here’s the subscription limits article - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-subscription-service-limits/#virtual-machines-limits
Keywords: IaaS
As part of our make-it-real series, the guys discuss a question posed to us by a colleague regarding migrating a realtime financial app to Azure PaaS.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode103.mp3
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-app-service-authentication-authorization/
What's in ARM and what's not?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/resource-manager-supported-services/
This post summarizes the updates and how the new tools will improve your Azure development experience.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-azure-sdk-2-8-for-net/
Azure Disk Encryption for Linux and Windows Virtual Machines-Public Preview Now Availablehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/azuresecurity/archive/2015/11/16/azure-disk-encryption-for-linux-and-windows-virtual-machines-public-preview.aspx
Azure Service Fabric in Public Previewhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/
Azure Dev/Test Labs in Public Previewhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devtest-lab/
Keywords: PaaS
Cale and Sujit chat with Jos De Bruijn, a Senior PM in the Data Services team, about this new in-memory processing option for SQL Azure.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-in-memory/
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn133186.aspx
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode102.mp3
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-threat-detection-for-azure-sql-database/
https://soundcloud.com/theredzonepodcast/an-insaciders-look-at-the-security-of-microsoft-azure-assume-the-breach-episode-28
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-sql-database-query-store/
Keywords: SQL Azure
Cale and Evan chat with Gaurav Malhotra who is a PM with the Azure team.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode101.mp3
Announcing a new partnership between Microsoft and Red Hathttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-a-new-partnership-between-microsoft-and-red-hat/
Azure DocumentDB is now available in South Central USFrom <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-documentdb-is-now-available-in-south-central-us/>
Elastic Database Transactions with Azure SQL Database
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/elastic-database-transactions-with-azure-sql-database/>
Microsoft Virtual Academy: Security in a cloud-enabled world
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-virtual-academy-security-in-a-cloud-enabled-world/>
Dynamic Data Masking is now generally available for Azure SQL Database
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/dynamic-data-masking-generally-available/>
General availability of Cloud Foundry and preview access of Pivotal Cloud Foundry
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-cloud-foundry-and-preview-access-of-pivotal-cloud-foundry/>
Keywords: Data Lake
The guys continue their analysis of the AzureCon 2015 announcements and bring us up-tp-date on the latest in the Azure space. They also reminisce a bit about the last 99 episodes.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode100.mp3
An early look at Containers: Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and Azure with Mark Russinovich (Microsoft Mechanics)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/an-early-look-containers-windows-server-2016-hyper-v-and-azure-with-mark-russinovich/
Azure Data Lake reaches Public Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-lake-reaches-public-preview/
Introducing the Azure DSCForLinux Extension
The Walking Dead: No Man's Land game soars to #1 supported by Azure DocumentDB
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-walking-dead-no-mans-land-game-soars-to-1-with-azure-documentdb/
All Things Open - Raleigh, NC
http://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-russinovich-the-microsoft-azure-cloud-and-open-source/
http://azurecorner.com/access-your-azure-vms-through-a-web-browser-with-thinrdp/
Keywords: AzureCon
Cale and Sujit discuss the announcements at AzureCon and also some geeky stuff with GPUs.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode99.mp3
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/
Virtual academy training by AzureCAT: “Deep Dive into Azure Resource Manager Scenarios and Patterns”
Convert from ASM to ARM (not official)
https://github.com/fullscale180/asm2arm
Keywords:
We chat with Ashwin Kamath, a Senior PM in the Azure team about the WebHooks feature that was recently released. It allows for easy integration of Azure Alerts with any other incident management system that the customer may be using.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode98.mp3
Webhooks for alerts: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webhooks-for-azure-alerts/
PagerDuty integration guide : https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/azure-integration-guide/
They can also use Twilio SMS, Slack channel or Azure Queues for alert notifications:
Logic App to send SMS via Twilio API. Create a Twilio account first.
Logic App to send Slack messages. Create a Slack account first
Logic App to send messages to an Azure Queue.
From Azure Automation team:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/using-azure-automation-to-take-actions-on-azure-alerts/
Ashwin's recent blog post on the topic:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webhooks-for-azure-alerts/
Keywords: Alerts
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