Azure Friday (Audio)

Emily Lawton stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about the Azure Cosmos DB Spark Connector, which enables Azure Cosmos DB to act as an input source or output sink for Apache Spark jobs.For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB Spark WikiCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @emilymlawton

Ron Ortloff talks with Scott Hanselman about the new Azure SQL Data Warehouse compute optimized tier that enables you to analyze ever growing amounts of data more easily, and how the team used NVM Express caching for up to 100x better performance.Azure SQL Data Warehouse previews 3x compute scale with unlimited columnar storage (blog)Faster compute optimized performance tier for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (blog)Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance tiers (Preview) (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @RonOrtloff

Matt Wagner joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Advisor, your personalized cloud service for Azure best practices that helps you to improve availability, enhance protection, optimize performance of your Azure resources, and maximize the return on your IT budget. In this episode, you'll learn about the latest set of improvements to Advisor that enable you to attain a comprehensive view of Advisor's advice across all your subscriptions and to customize Advisor to the needs of your specific organization.Azure Advisor (overview)Azure Advisor (docs)Azure Advisor (portal)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Christian Wade stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about how to use Azure Analysis Services diagnostic logging and query scale out. These features provide high scalability and monitoring for IT-owned "corporate BI" and are much easier to set up in Azure than on-premises.For more information, see:Introducing query replica scale-out for Azure Analysis Services (blog)Azure Analysis Services integration with Azure Diagnostic Logs (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @_christianwade

Tommy Nguyen joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Billing in the Azure portal. If you're wondering: "Where do I find a copy of my invoice?" or "How does an Azure service affect my overall costs?" - these questions and more will be answered in this episode, which highlights features in the Azure portal to get cost and billing clarity.For more information, see:Prevent unexpected charges with Azure billing and cost management (docs)Understand your bill for Microsoft Azure (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureBilling

Raghav Mohan joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Apache Kafka on HDInsight, which added the open-source distributed streaming platform last year to complete a scalable, big data streaming scenario on Azure. The service has come a long way since - processing millions of events/sec, petabytes of data/day to power scenarios like Toyota's connected car, Office 365's clickstream analytics, fraud detection for large banks, etc. Deploy managed, cost-effective Kafka clusters on Azure HDInsight with a 99.9% SLA with just 4 clicks or pre-created ARM templates.For more information, see:Announcing Apache Kafka for Azure Hdinsight General AvailabilityApache Kafka for HDInsightStart with Apache Kafka on HDInsight (docs)Use Apache Kafka with Storm on HDInsight (docs)Apache Spark streaming (DStream) example with Kafka on HDInsight (docs)Analyze logs for Apache Kafka on HDInsight (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @theycallmeraj

In this episode, Mani Ramaswamy shows Scott Hanselman how to use Jenkins for your CI/CD pipeline with Service Fabric and run your Jenkins build server directly on the Service Fabric cluster. The Service Fabric team uses Jenkins internally for testing on Linux, and you can learn about how it is configured.For more information, see:Use Jenkins to build and deploy your Linux applications (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @sramaswamy1111

David Campbell joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Windows 10 IoT and how it enhances Azure IoT Device Management (DM) capabilities on Windows IoT, simplifying DM and aligning Azure DM with other Windows DM solutions.For more information, see: Windows 10 IoT Azure DM Blog postWindows 10 IoT Azure Device Management clientWindows 10 IoT Azure Device Provisioning Client Windows 10 IoTAzure IoT HubAzure Friday: Azure IoT Hub episodeCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Olivier Bloch joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure IoT and how it is more than just about connecting IoT devices and sending telemetry to the Cloud. They also talk about Azure IoT device topics such as twins, provisioning, and lifecycle management.For more information, see:Azure IoT HubAzure IoT MXChip starter kitAzure IoT Developer CenterAzure Friday: Windows IoT and Azure IoT Device Management Enhancements episodeCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @obloch

Raj Ganapathy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new addition to Azure's resiliency offerings – Availability Zones. Azure Availability Zones are fault-isolated locations within an Azure region to help protect customers applications and data from datacenter-level failures with independent power, network, and cooling.For more information, see: Introducing Azure Availability Zones for resiliency and high availability (blog)Overview of Availability Zones in Azure (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday