Raghav Mohan stops by to announce the addition of Apache Kafka to the HDInsight family. Azure HDInsight is a managed cloud Hadoop and Spark service built for the enterprise. This is an exciting addition as it enables enterprises to build scalable, real-time streaming pipelines on the HDInsight platform within minutes and with just a few clicks. Editing note: Tweet stream blurred for your protection. :|
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DocumentDB collections are logical resources that can span multiple partitions to provide practically limitless scale. In this episode of Azure Friday, Shireesh Thota talks with Scott Hanselman about scaling DocumentDB with a partitioning collection and how best to choose your partition keys to optimize for read and write workloads. Partition management is fully managed by Azure DocumentDB and it is completely transparent to your application, so you do not have to write complex code or manage your partitions.
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Kevin Lam joins Scott Hanselman to show him the powerful management and tooling capabilities that help you develop and debug logic apps using the Azure Portal, and also from within Visual Studio using a Logic App ARM template.
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In this episode of Azure Friday, Vishal Sood gives Scott Hanselman a quick tour of Microsoft Stream, which is built on Microsoft Azure and enables you to upload & share videos across your organization.
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Azure Mobile Services is transitioning to Azure App Service. In this Azure Friday, Adrian Hall and Seth Juarez will discuss how to migrate your site and what to expect after you have migrated.
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Jon Fancey joins Scott to talk about Azure Logic Apps, iPaaS, and enterprise integration. With the new XML and B2B processing features in Logic Apps, Jon shows how you can quickly create cloud-scale processes for exchanging data securely with trading partners as well as validating and transforming XML data using an Integration Account.
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Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott about the latest updates to Azure DocumentDB, including a free local development with emulator, DocumentDB .NET Core Preview SDK, and other improvements.
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Paulo Ramos joins Scott to talk about migAz, which is an additional option for migrating IaaS resources from the classic deployment model to the Azure Resource Manager deployment model. The tool uses Service Management REST API calls to gather all the details on Network, Storage and Compute related resources to create a nice ARM Template. You can find it at: http://aka.ms/migaz. This is a two-part video: Part 1: Overview and DemoPart 2: Utilization Scenarios (this part)
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Paulo Ramos joins Scott to talk about migAz, which is an additional option for migrating IaaS resources from the classic deployment model to the Azure Resource Manager deployment model. The tool uses Service Management REST API calls to gather all the details on Network, Storage and Compute related resources to create a nice ARM Template. You can find it at: http://aka.ms/migaz. This is a two-part video: Part 1: Overview and Demo (this part)Part 2: Utilization Scenarios
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Aravind Ramachandran stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott about predictable performance and getting the scale you need with 99.99% guarantee from DocumentDB. Aravind explains Request Units and best practices for building scalable applications with DocumentDB's transparent partitioning.
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Karthik Raman takes Scott on a whirlwind tour of Azure DocumentDB to show off turnkey geo-distribution, high availability, failover policies, and the power of bringing your data to your customers around the world with a click on a map.
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Scott talks to Narayan Annamalai from the Azure Networking team about the new Virtual Network Peering feature. VNet peering is a mechanism that connects two virtual networks (VNets) in the same region through the Azure backbone network. Once peered, the two virtual networks appear as one for all connectivity purposes.
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Scott talks to Josh Caplan about the General Availability of Microsoft Power BI Embedded. It's a great new Azure service that allows app developers to embed live interactive reports into their applications.
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Azure Logic Apps are generally available and ready for you to build amazing apps! Logic Apps let you quickly build powerful integration solutions and create business processes and workflows visually.
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Ashish Kurmi joins Seth to show a quick demo of App Service Certificate (ASC). App Service Certificate (ASC) allows App Service customers to create certificates, use them with their App Service Apps and manage certificate lifecycle in Azure. ASC simplifies the user experience by performing all crypto operations required for generating/rekeying/renewing a certificate and supporting auto cert rotation for app service SSL bindings. Enjoy! https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/internals-of-app-service-certificate/https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-purchase-ssl-web-site/https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/?term=%22App+Service+Certifi...
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Chris Anderson joins Seth and explores how Azure Functions integrate with larger applications.
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Donovan Brown joins the Azure Friday team and speaks with Bryon Tardif about the new App Service Companion! App in Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=azureApps.AzureAppsAnnouncement Blog https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2016/10/10/azure_app_service_companion/Support Forums on MSDN and Stack Overflow.Feature Requests User VoiceByron on Twitter https://twitter.com/bktv99
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Azure Redis Cache adds new administration options which allows you to test your application for connection resiliency in case of a failure and also schedule updates to Azure Redis Cache.https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-administration/
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In this video we will look at some of the best practices on how should you pick the right Redis Cache offering for your use case.https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-faq/
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Redis clustering gives you maximum scale and throughput. Azure Redis Cache offers Redis cluster as implemented in Redis. In Azure, Redis cluster is offered as a primary/replica model where each shard has a primary/replica pair with replication where the replication is managed by Azure Redis Cache service. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-how-to-premium-clustering/http://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial
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Microsoft Azure will be offering state of the art GPU visualization infrastructure and GPU compute infrastructure for various different scenarios like gaming, streaming, transcoding, machine learning, visualized CAD applications and many more other workloads that utilize GPUs. Relevant Links:https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2016/T615http://connect.teradici.com/blog/teradici-joins-azure-big-compute-team-onstage-at-build-2016http://connect.teradici.com/blog/teradici-and-microsoft-azure-to-turn-heads-at-siggraph-2016
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Seth Juarez talks to Chuck Weininger and Vance Morrison about the power of Azure Service Profiler. It can help you debug performance problems for many different Azure workloads, but they specifically demonstrate how to get it working for Azure Web Apps.
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Scott digs in with Neil Gat and learns how to scale VM scales set to new heights! With all VMs configured the same, VM scale sets are designed to support true autoscale - no pre-provisioning of VMs is required - and as such makes it easier to build large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads.
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Scott talks with Ross Gardler about how Azure Container Service can be used to scale your Docker and container-based work-loads easier than ever.
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Scott learns from Neil Gat about Azure VM Scale Sets. VM Scale Sets are an Azure Compute resource you can use to deploy and manage a collection of virtual machines as a set. Scale sets are well suited for building large-scale services targeting big compute, big data, and containerized workloads - all of which are increasing in significance as cloud computing continues to evolve.
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Scott talks to Gaurav Malhotra about how Azure Data Factory's tools have improved and now make the monitoring and management of Big Data Pipelines easier than ever. He also demos how Data Factory is used with How-old.net!
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Scott talks to Ross Gardler about using Azure Container Service with Docker and the Docker command line. Ross builds, deploys, and scales dozens of machines with in Azure all using Docker and the Azure Container Service.
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Scott talks to Azure Developer Aarthi Saravanakumar about the new Azure Web Apps Local Cache feature! How does local cache work and how does it change the behavior of your Web Apps and how they load, run, and write to disk?
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Scott talks to Injy Zarif about how you can manage the Azure CDN from inside the new Azure Portal. There's a surprisingly large number of features and configuration options that you can now manage from the portal to make sure your CDN works the way you want!
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Scott sits down with Kevin Zhang from the Azure CDN team to talk about how developers can get granular control over the Azure CDN with their SDK and developer tools.
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Scott talks to Ross Gardler about the new Azure Container Service! Azure Container Service optimizes the configuration of popular open source tools and technologies specifically for Azure. You get an open solution that offers portability for both your containers and your application configuration.
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With Azure Security Center, you get a central view of the security state of all of your Azure resources. At a glance, verify that the appropriate security controls are in place and configured correctly. Scott talks to Sarah Fender who explains how Security Center integrates Threat Detection.
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When Illyriad wanted to create a game of a massive scale never before achieved, they turned to Azure, ASP.NET and Azure Service Fabric to engage over 50,000 players, through the browser on any device. In this video you'll hear how they developed Age of Ascent on Microsoft's cloud platform.
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Scott talks to Daria Grigoriu from the App Service team about the new Azure App Service Advisor. There's a lot of things you need to monitor when managing your App Service, and the App Service Advisor will give you live recommendations in the Portal for resource exhaustion! It will give you a heads up for conditions related to CPU, Memory, and Connections!
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Scott talks to Josh Caplan about the preview of Microsoft Power BI Embedded. A new Azure service which allows app developers to embed live interactive reports into their applications.
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Staying ahead of current and emerging threats requires an integrated, analytics-driven approach. By combining Microsoft global threat intelligence and expertise with insights into security-related events across your Azure deployments, Security Center helps you detect actual threats early, and it reduces false positives. Scott talks to Sara Fender who breaks down the details.
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With Azure Security Center, you get a central view of the security state of all of your Azure resources. At a glance, verify that the appropriate security controls are in place and configured correctly. Scott talks to Sara Fender who explains it all!
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Scott talks to Den Delimarschi about Azure Notification Hubs for Mobile apps and devices! Sending notifications to your users and their devices is WAY easier than you think. You can get notifications running in minutes! Check out this demo-packed episode.
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The Azure Scheduler has been brought into the new Azure Portal with an all new UI and great new functionality. Kevin Lam brings the scoop. Azure Scheduler lets you create jobs in the cloud that reliably invoke services inside and outside of Azure—such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting messages to Azure Storage queues. You can choose to run jobs right away, on a recurring schedule, or at some point in the future.
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Kevin Lam joins Scott to give an update and overview of the Azure Scheduler. Azure Scheduler lets you create jobs in the cloud that reliably invoke services inside and outside of Azure—such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting messages to Azure Storage queues. You can choose to run jobs right away, on a recurring schedule, or at some point in the future.
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This week on Azure Friday Scott talks to Mingfei Yang about how Azure Media Services can use DRM to protect your streaming media content. You can protect your content on any platform and it's a lot easier than you'd think!
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This week on Azure Friday Scott talks to Mingfei Yang about how Azure Media Services can use AES Encryption to protect your media content. From AES-128 Clear Key, Microsoft PlayReady, and Google Widevine you can protect your content on any platform and it's a lot easier than you'd think!
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Scott talks to Anton Kucer about the powerful new Premium Features that are available in the Azure CDN. There's a bunch of new features that have been added lately and there's a custom dashboard that controls it all.
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This week Scott talks to Brady Gaster about some of the new Azure App Service features in Visual Studio. We've got all new Azure Resource Manager Tools in Visual Studio and there's a number of cool tricks that make working easier and more powerful than ever.
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Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 103, where Karthik creates an app from an existing data source.
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Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 102, where Karthik creates an application from a template, then adds new functionality from there.
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Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement to target specific users and send them notifications! This is a great way to really connect to small slices of users and give them information and notifications that they care about. Notifications are also a powerful way to remind your users about your apps and keep them coming back for more!
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Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement and capture information and events about how users user your mobile apps. You can then take this big data collection and process it to better understand WHY users do what they do and come up with specific ways you can improve a user's experience and engage with your audience more deeply.
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Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement. Combine big data collection with real-time processing to trigger engagement scenarios according to app-user behavior and demographics. Azure Mobile Engagement answers nearly any question relevant to your business needs and it includes SDKs for all major platforms - iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone.
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Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 101.
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Scott talks to Bill Staples about Power Apps. Why did we make it and what can you accomplish with Power Apps and Azure App Service?
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Visual Studio 2015 now includes remote profiling of your web applications running within Azure App Service! That means you can actually profile a live running application inside Azure. Scott talks to Hamid Safi about this powerful new feature that you can use today!
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David Ebbo has created an amazing tool at https://resources.azure.com. You can explore the RESTful APIs that Azure exposes in this rich tree view! A fantastic resource for developers, you can see generated Powershell, Documentation, even POST to a live API from within the browser!
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Cortana Analytics Vehicle Telemetry Analytics Solution showcases how car dealerships, automobile manufacturers and insurance companies can leverage the capabilities of Cortana Analytics to gain real-time and predictive insights on vehicle health and driving habits to drive improvements in the area of customer experience, R&D and marketing campaigns.
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Moinak Bandyopadhyay stops by Azure Friday to show that Azure in fact has rich Billing and Rate Card APIs! In fact, the same Azure Resource Manager APIs that the Azure Portal uses can be used by you in your own applications. If you're a small organization or a large one, you can get detailed usage and billing data directly from Azure and keep track of your bills. Tag resources and control usage data with a JSON-based RESTful API.
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Matthew Henderson shows Scott the open source Field Engineer" sample application that shows how to create Azure Mobile Applications. We'll go through how TableControllers support ASP.NET MVC Applications and Web APIs, and how you can consume data from applications on your mobile device.
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Jeff Hollan stops by Azure Friday and he's brought a Raspberry Pi. Jeff shows Scott how to turn on his sprinklers using a Raspberry Pi and the automation power of your own Logic App running in Azure App Service.
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There's a lot more to Azure Logic Apps than just a nice visual editor. There's a whole JSON-based language grammar in this episode of Azure Friday Jeff Hollan explains the internals of Logic Apps and gives us the tools to explore more.
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Guang Yang continues to educate Scott on Azure API Apps. In this episode, we add authentication and an understanding of identity to an Azure API App.
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In this episode Brady Gaster schools Scott on how to customize the "Swagger" descriptive metadata format for Web APIs. You'll be able to craft your Web APIs and how they present themselves to customers with some of these advanced techniques within ASP.NET Web API.
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Azure Search is a search-as-a-service in the cloud, providing a rich search experience that is easy to integrate into custom applications, and easy to maintain because all infrastructure and administration is handled for you. Watch this video for a brief introduction to Azure Search.
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Brady extends on his Swagger 101 talk and takes an existing Azure API App and plugs it into Azure API Management. Once APIM (API Management) knows about our app, we get a whole world of reach analytics as well as new powers like subscriber management and much more.
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Brady Gaster comes by Azure Friday and explains "Swagger" to Scott. Swagger is kind of like WSDL for RESTful Web Services. If you've got a Web API running in the cloud, you'll want to know about Swagger. Azure API Apps speak Swagger at their core. We'll use Swagger AND Swashbuckle to light up some Web APIs!
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Kirill Gavrylyuk comes to Azure Friday to show the latest Azure App Service updates as of August of 2015 and beyond. Mobile Services features are now integrated into Azure App Service and are available to subscribers are at no additional cost! We'll see how to add Push Notifications to a Web Site running in Azure and push down to an iPad in this episode. And all the code is on GitHub!
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Sunitha Muthukrishna comes by Azure Friday to show Scott how to do sophisticated staged WordPress Deployments on the Azure Cloud.
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Guang Yang visits Azure Friday to talk to Scott about Azure API Apps. How can you host your Web API in the Azure Cloud? Once you do have an API App, what kinds of features does it get over a Web Application?
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Adarsh Solanki joins the whole to how you can use Azure Media Services and Azure Media Services Explorer to create a Microsoft Hyperlapse video. Hyperlapse takes time-lapse videos and amazingly smoothes them out to create a powerful visual experience!
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Scott talks to Mark Fussell about Azure Service Fabric and the Actor Programming Model. Mark demystifies the Actor Model and explains how it relates to Service Fabric. Service Fabric offers both low level and high level APIs so you can choose how you want to attack a problem. We also chat about open source projects like Akka.NET
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Today Amit Bapat introduces Scott to Azure Key Vault. With Azure Key Vault, you can encrypt keys and small secrets like passwords using keys stored in hardware security modules (HSMs). It's cloud-based, hardware-based secret management for Microsoft Azure!
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Scott talks to Chacko Daniel about the lifecycle of an Azure Service Fabric Application. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. When you update those applications on a live, running site, what happens? Chacko brings an amazing demo and updates components of a site while it keeps running!
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Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. Where do Transactions fit in? How can Services scale AND be reliable?
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Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. How do apps live, work, and scale beyond just "VMs in the cloud" and "Web Apps in the cloud." In this conceptual talk, Matthew gives no-nonsense, no marketing answers to straight questions.
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Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a great new feature that lets you performance test your Azure Web Application directly from the Azure Portal! From the Tools menu of an Azure Web Application, we're able to launch a performance test and ensure that our Staging Site can keep up with a production load. Later we can swap our staging and production and test again! Be sure to check out the second Performance Testing Azure Friday as we perform a more advanced test from within Visual Studio.
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Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a Performance Testing your Azure Web Apps. Is this video we use Visual Studio Enterprise and spin up a sophisticated load test that includes multiple kinds of users (light browsers vs. a serious power user). We use the power of Azure and Visual Studio Online to push massive load than you could from your local machine and we manage it all from within Visual Studio.
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After the team's success of how-old.net, Mat Velloso decided to create twinsornot.net just to see how easy it would be! In this episode he shares the code with Scott, and with you on GitHub! You'll see how you can call APIs like the Face API and many others in the Azure Marketplace. We'll also see how the site scales and how easy it was to add analytics as well.
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Scott talks to Corom Thompson from Azure Machine Learning. In just minutes Corom adds Machine Learning intelligence to a chat app, adding emoji based on a sentiment analysis of the text!
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Scott talks about the Microsoft Azure CDN Updates for July 2015 with Anton Kucer. Country filtering support, great reporting features, and more this month!
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This week Scott talks to David Justice about the open source tool AutoRest. AutoRest generates client side SDKs in a number of languages using a Web API's (or an Azure API App's) swagger endpoint. Consume from any language and produce from (almost) any language with this powerful open source tool.
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Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This second episode talks about how JSON Web Tokens work and shows some of the online tools you'll use to express policies and then apply them with a Policy Definition.
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Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This third episode covers how you can change your API's output based on your subscriber level. For example, free product users could get cached data while premium users would get realtime data. You can make these kinds of Policy Expressions and change your API without changing a line of your APIs code!
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Principal Engineer Corom Thompson shares the story behind viral Internet site http://www.how-old.net! How was it made, how does it work, and more importantly, how did it scale when the whole internet showed up at its door?
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Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This first episode covers the basics and explains the architecture of API Management and where policy expressions fit in. You'll see how you can use familiar Razor syntax and how API Management compiles your expressions with the Roslyn compiler.
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Senior Program Manager Narayan Annamalai teaches Scott how to use Network Security Groups within an Azure Virtual Network. You can create control access to objects within Azure by subnet and network! You'll learn how to control access and create groups within Azure using PowerShell!
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Scott talks to Khalid Mouss about how you can monitor your Linux machines within an Azure infrastructure. Large numbers of Linux machines run on Azure with great success, so how can you best monitor the CPU and Disk access of your Linux workloads? Khalid also shows how to add support for Datadog by adding their custom agent to a Linux VM.
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Scott loves IoT devices, and today Santosh Balasubramanian hooks up a Raspberry PI to Azure Stream Analytics. Use a SQL-like language to ask questions of your IoT devices and create dashboards in Power BI.
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Scott talks to Santosh Balasubramanian about how to stream data through Azure and perform real-time analysis and scoring using Azure Stream Analytics. We'll also create and share realtime dashboard showing streaming data in Power BI!
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Scott talks to Karan Batta about how to use Azure Batch for large scale Rendering Workflows. Karan uses a plugin for Autodesk Maya 2015 that lets you utilize the raw power and scale of Azure to speed up your scene renders using Azure Batch.
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Scott talks to Asad Khan about the addition of Apache Spark on Azure HDInsight. Apache Spark is a unified, open source, parallel data processing framework for Big Data Analytics. Spark brings together batch processing, real-time processing, stream analytics, machine learning, and interactive SQL and Azure makes Spark "Software as a Service." It's a great time for you to jump into the world of Big Data on Azure.
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Scott talks to Adarsh Solanki about an amazing Azure Media Services feature - Azure Media Indexer! Azure Media Indexer will automatically create standard-format transcript from your audio or video files! You can upload hours of video and have captioning created, then seek, search, and automatically jump to where someone said a word or term! Where did someone say Hololens in a BUILD keynote? Media Indexer has the answer.
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Channel 9's own Seth Juarez comes to lay down the knowledge and get Scott up to speed on Azure Machine Learning 101.
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Nicole Berdy comes to Azure Friday to educate Scott about how Azure Event Hubs can be used to handle an influx of HUGE amounts of data. What techniques and tools do you need to use to consume data quickly and effectively?
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Scott talks to Khalid Mouss about how install the Azure CLI into a Docker Container. This means your Azure Command Line Interface setup is completely portable and easily installable, anywhere!
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Scott is flying solo in this episode. He digs into Web Apps and how you can use Log Streaming to listen in on what's really happening with your Web Applications running on Azure. From File New Project all the way to connecting to the production log streaming service, this video will show you features you may be not exploiting fully today!
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Hey, it's Scott...by himself! In this episode Scott goes solo to talk about the IIS8+ module called the HttpPlatformHandler. It exists so Azure can run Java but now its existence means we've got a generic reverse proxy mechanism for IIS both in Azure AND outside Azure! Let's see if this means we can run Ruby or F# or anything we like!
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