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Re: Participation in Azure Friday
I appreciate your interest in appearing on Azure Friday. When we do invite an external guest to appear on an episode of Azure Friday, it's because that person has demonstrated a unique perspective about Azure that we can't find internally from Azure engineers. But I must admit that it's not too common since we have a growing backlog of topics to record.1.3KViews0likes1CommentAzure Cosmos DB update: SDKs, CORS, multi-region strong consistency, and more
Learn about the new SDKs for Azure Cosmos DB with the JavaScript SDK as an example, talk about CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) with a simple JavaScript app to demonstrate it, a new, low-cost database offer in the Azure portal, Azure DevOps build task, cost saving tips, and support for multi-region strong consistency. JavaScript and Node.js library for Azure Cosmos DB Azure Friday - An intro to Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK 2.0 Azure Friday - An intro to An intro to Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK 3.0 Azure Cosmos DB docs Configure Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) (docs) Use the Azure Cosmos DB Emulator for local development and testing (docs) Create an Azure Cosmos container (docs) Consistency levels in Azure Cosmos DB (docs) Create a free account (Azure)1.5KViews1like0CommentsAn intro to Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK 3.0
Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss new improvements for Azure Cosmos DB SDKs, including the new, idiomatic .NET SDK with friendlier, more intuitive programming model, better testability, better performance, .NET Standard 2.0 support, and now open sourced. Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 now in public preview Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 (GitHub) Build a .NET console app to manage data in Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account (SDK Version 3 Preview) Create a free account (Azure)1KViews0likes0CommentsAn intro to Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK 3.0
Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss new improvements for Azure Cosmos DB SDKs, including the new, idiomatic .NET SDK with friendlier, more intuitive programming model, better testability, better performance, .NET Standard 2.0 support, and now open sourced. Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 now in public preview Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK Version 3.0 (GitHub) Build a .NET console app to manage data in Azure Cosmos DB SQL API account (SDK Version 3 Preview) Create a free account (Azure)848Views0likes0CommentsIntroduction to Azure Integration Service Environment for Logic Apps | Azure Friday
The Integration Service Environment (ISE) provides a dedicated Logic Apps runtime that can directly integrate with systems in a virtual network, including on-premises via an ExpressRoute. Announcing Azure Integration Service Environment for Logic Apps blog post Connect to Azure virtual networks from Azure Logic Apps by using an integration service environment (ISE) docs Azure Logic Apps docs What is Azure Virtual Network? docs Create a free account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @LogicAppsIO Follow @kevinlam_msft Never miss an episode: Follow @AzureFriday2.3KViews0likes0CommentsAn overview of Azure Integration Services | Azure Friday
Azure Integration Services brings together API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid as a reliable, scalable platform for integrating on-premises and cloud-based applications, data, and processes across your enterprise. Azure Integration Services overview Azure Integration Services white paper Azure Integration Services docs Basic enterprise integration on Azure reference architecture Create a free account (Azure) Follow @sqlgal Follow @Azure Don't miss an episode: Follow @AzureFriday2KViews0likes0CommentsAzure Instance Metadata Service updates for attested data | Azure Friday
Azure Instance Metadata Service is used to provide information about a running virtual machine that can be used to configure and manage the machine. With the latest updates, Azure Marketplace vendors can now validate that their image is running in Azure. Azure Instance Metadata service Instance metadata data categories Azure Virtual Machines Azure Marketplace Create a free account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @Azure Don't miss an episode of Azure Friday - Follow @AzureFriday1.1KViews0likes0CommentsAnomaly detection using machine learning in Azure Stream Analytics | Azure Friday
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed serverless offering on Azure. With the new Anomaly Detection functions in Stream Analytics, the whole complexity associated with building and training custom machine learning (ML) models is reduced to a simple function call resulting in lower costs, faster time to value, and lower latencies. Anomaly Detection in Azure Stream Analytics (docs) Anomaly detection using built-in machine learning models in Azure Stream Analytics (blog post) Azure Stream Analytics docs Azure Stream Analytics - Real-time data analytics overview Azure Stream Analytics pricing Create a free account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureStreaming Never miss an episode: Follow @AzureFriday1.2KViews1like0CommentsUsing HashiCorp Vault with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) | Azure Friday
As the adoption of Kubernetes grows, secret management tools must integrate well with Kubernetes so that the sensitive data can be protected in the containerized world. On this episode, Yoko Hakuna demonstrates the HashiCorp Vault's Kubernetes auth method for identifying the validity of containers requesting access to the secrets. HashiCorp Vault project website Get started with Vault Kubernetes Auth Method doc Vault Agent with Kubernetes guide Vault Agent doc How does Vault encrypt data? Open Source Security Best Practices for Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers (The Open Source Show) Create a free account (Azure)2.2KViews0likes0CommentsHashiCorp Vault on Azure | Azure Friday
Working with Microsoft, HashiCorp launched Vault with a number of features to make secret management easier to automate in Azure cloud. Yoko Hyakuna from HashiCorp joins Donovan Brown to show how Azure Key Vault can auto-unseal the HashiCorp Vault server, and then how HashiCorp Vault can dynamically generate Azure credentials for apps using its Azure secrets engine feature. HashiCorp Vault project website Get started with Vault Auto-unsealing Vault using Azure Key Vault guide Vault server configuration with Azure Key Vault Azure Secrets Engine doc How does Vault encrypt data? Create a free account (Azure)1.3KViews0likes0CommentsQuickly build data integration pipelines using templates in Azure Data Factory | Azure Friday
Gaurav Malhotra joins Lara Rubbelke (@sqlgal) to show how to use predefined Azure Data Factory pipeline templates to get started quickly with Azure Data Factory thereby reducing the development time for building data integration projects. Overview of templates for Azure Data Factory Azure Data Factory overview Azure Data Factory docs Azure Data Factory pricing Get started quickly using templates in Azure Data Factory (blog post) Create a free account (Azure)1.1KViews0likes0CommentsAn overview of Azure Blueprints | Azure Friday
Alex Frankel (@sonofdiesel) joins Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) to discuss Azure Blueprints. Environment creation can be a long and error prone process. Azure Blueprints helps you deploy and update cloud environments in a repeatable manner using composable artifacts such as policies, role-based access control, and Azure Resource Manager templates. Azure Blueprints docs Getting started with Blueprints YouTube series Managing Blueprints-as-code Create a free account (Azure)1KViews0likes0CommentsAn overview of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) | Azure Friday
Manoj Raheja joins Lara Rubbelke to demonstrate Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and provide an overview of the service from provisioning to querying. ADX is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of streaming data. It brings together a highly performant and scalable cloud analytics service with an intuitive query language to deliver near-instant insights. Azure Data Explorer overview Azure Data Explorer docs Azure Data Explorer pricing Create a free account (Azure)9.5KViews1like0CommentsCode-free data transformation at scale using Azure Data Factory | Azure Friday
Learn about the new code-free visual data transformation capabilities in Azure Data Factory as Gaurav Malhotra joins Lara Rubbelke to demonstrate how you can visually design, build, and manage data transformation processes without learning Spark or having a deep understanding of the distributed infrastructure. Azure Data Factory mapping data flows Azure Data Factory overview Azure Data Factory docs Azure Data Factory pricing Create a free account (Azure)916Views0likes0CommentsEnhanced monitoring capabilities and tags/annotations in Azure Data Factory | Azure Frida
Gaurav Malhotra and Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) explore tagging support and enhanced monitoring capabilities, including dashboards and improved debugging support in Azure Data Factory. Data integration is complex and the ability to monitor your data factory pipelines is a key requirement for dev ops personnel inside an enterprise. Now, you can tag/annotate your data factory pipelines to monitor all the pipeline executions with that particular tag. In addition, Data Factory visual tools provide dashboards to monitor your pipelines and an ability to monitor your pipeline execution by the Integration Runtime (IR) upon which the activities execute. Alert and Monitor data factories using Azure Monitor Azure Data Factory overview Azure Data Factory docs Azure Data Factory pricing Create a free account (Azure)1.1KViews0likes0CommentsAzure is the new mainframe | Azure Friday
Steve Steuart from Astadia joins Scott Hanselman to show how a mainframe reference architecture based on Azure enables you to deploy your mainframe assets to a native Azure environment. You can the leverage all the available Azure services with your new mainframe in the cloud, including AI, Power BI, IoT, and Machine Learning. IBM Mainframe to Microsoft Azure Reference Architecture (Astadia whitepaper) Moving COBOL Workload to Microsoft Azure (Astadia webinar) Shifting Unisys Mainframe to Microsoft Azure (Astadia webinar) Shifting IBM Mainframe to Microsoft Azure (Astadia webinar) Supporting cost saving and improved performance at WorkSafe (Astadia video) Create a free account (Azure)732Views0likes0CommentsAn intro to Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK 2.0 | Azrue Friday
Chris Anderson (@crandycodes) joins Donovan Brown (@donovanbrown) to discuss Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK 2.0, which adds support for multi-region writes, a new fluent-style object model—making it easier to reference Azure Cosmos DB resources without an explicit URL—and support for promises and other modern JavaScript features. It is also written in TypeScript and supports the latest TypeScript 3.0. Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript SDK 2.0 now generally available (blog post) JavaScript and Node.js library for Azure Cosmos DB (GitHub) Azure Cosmos DB: Build a Node.js app using JavaScript SDK to manage Azure Cosmos DB SQL API data (docs) Azure Cosmos DB (overview) Azure Cosmos DB (pricing) Create a free account (Azure)1.3KViews1like0CommentsMonitor your Azure Data Factory pipelines proactively with alerts | Azure Friday
In this episode, Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how organizations can now improve operational productivity by creating alerts on data integration events (success/failure) and proactively monitor their Azure Data Factories. Data Integration is complex and helps organizations to combine data and complex business processes in hybrid data environments. The increase in volume, variety and velocity of data has led to delays in monitoring and reacting to issues. Organizations want to reduce the risk of data integration activity failures and the impact to other downstream processes. Manual approaches to monitoring data integration projects are inefficient and time consuming. As a result, organizations want to have automated processes to monitor and manage data integration projects to remove inefficiencies and catch issues before they affect the entire system. Visually monitor Azure data factories - Alerts (docs) Create alerts to proactively monitor your data factory pipelines (blog post) Azure Data Factory documentation Azure Data Factory pricing Create a free account (Azure)963Views0likes0CommentsUsing HashiCorp Consul to connect Kubernetes clusters on Azure | Azure Friday
HashiCorp Consul is a distributed service mesh to connect, secure, and configure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud. In this episode, Scott Hanselman is joined by HashiCorp's Geoffrey Grossenbach who uses Helm to install a Consul server to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster. Next, he deploys and secures a pair of microservices with Consul. Consul Curriculum - HashiCorp Learn Consul by HashiCorp Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Intro to Service Meshes: Data Planes, Control Planes, and More | The Open Source Show Use case: Modern service discovery with Consul on Azure (Part 1) Use case: Modern Service Mesh with Consul on Azure (Part 2) Create a free account (Azure)1.4KViews0likes0CommentsRun Azure Functions from Azure Data Factory Pipelines | Azure Friday
Azure Functions is a serverless compute service that enables you to run code on-demand without having to explicitly provision or manage infrastructure. Using Azure Functions, you can run a script or piece of code in response to a variety of events. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a managed data integration service in Azure that enables you to iteratively build, orchestrate, and monitor your Extract Transform Load (ETL) workflows. Azure Functions is now integrated with ADF, enabling you to run an Azure function as a step in your data factory pipelines. Azure Function activity in Azure Data Factory (docs) Azure Functions now supported as a step in Azure Data Factory pipelines (blog post) Azure Data Factory (docs) Azure Data Factory (overview) Azure Data Factory pricing Create a free account (Azure)2.9KViews1like0Comments
