Azure Friday (Audio)

In this episode, Sean McKenna shows Scott Hanselman the Open Service Broker for Azure, an easy way to connect applications running in platforms like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry to some of the most popular Azure services, using a standard, multi-cloud API.For more information, see:Open Service Broker API (org site)Open Service Broker for Azure project (GitHub)Kubernetes Service Catalog project (GitHub)Custom Services Overview (Cloud Foundry docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @seanmckmsft

Chris Pendleton joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Maps (Location Based Services), which is a portfolio of geospatial service APIs natively integrated into Azure that enables developers, enterprises, and ISVs to create location-aware apps and IoT, mobility, logistics, and asset tracking solutions. The portfolio currently comprises of services for Map Rendering, Routing, Search, Time Zones and Traffic.For more information, see:Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @chrispendleton

Chris Gillum joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a new extension of Azure Functions known as Durable Functions. Durable Functions is a programming model for authoring stateful, reliable, and serverless function orchestrations using C# and async/await.For more information, see: Durable Functions overview (docs)Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions (GitHub repo)Durable Functions and Bindings Extensibility Preview Announcement (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @cgillum

Amber Bhargava joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new Azure free account. The new Azure free account provides Azure customers US $200 credit for first 30 days to experiment with a combination of services. Now it also includes 12-months of popular free services and 25+ always free services to learn and explore Azure further.For more information, see:Create a Free Account (Azure)Azure Free Account FAQCreate services included with Azure free account (docs)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Ahmed Elnably joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a sample project, Developer Finder, that was created to showcase how to use Web App for Containers in the context of a multi-tiered application.For more information, see:Azure App Services (demo app) Web App For ContainersCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @elnably

The new web modeling experience for Azure Analysis Service can supersize the models that you have built for Power BI. In this episode, Josh Caplan will show how you can take data models that were built inside the Power BI desktop and easily convert them to Azure Analysis Services models. You can then use all the Power of Azure Analysis Services to scale your model to hundreds or even thousands of users.For more information, see:Import Power BI Desktop files into Azure Analysis Services (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joshcaplan1984

Richard Li joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the new Dynamic Site Acceleration (DSA) optimization for Azure CDN, and how it can be used in combination with standard CDN caching features to measurably improve the performance of web pages with dynamic content. For more information, see:Dynamic Site Acceleration via Azure CDN (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @richyli

Steve Ernst joins Scott Hanselman to introduce App Service diagnostics, which is the home for diagnosing and troubleshooting problems with your app. This intelligent service was built to diagnose many different problems and suggest targeted solutions for the customer. For more information, see: Announcing the general availability of Azure App Service diagnostics (blog)New App Service Support Center (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @stevenernst131

Azure Analysis Services makes it easier to build semantic models with the introduction of its new web modeling experience. In this episode, Josh Caplan will show you just how easy it is to use this experience to create a rich semantic model on top of data stored in Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Learn how to empower your business users to build their own reports with data at cloud scale.For more information, see: Learn the latest on Azure Analysis Services (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joshcaplan1984

Xiaokai He joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how easy it is for you to use Java to create an Azure Function, and then test & debug it locally before pushing it to the cloud. You can also use VS Code to implement lightweight Java applications such as Azure Functions.For more information, see: Announcing the preview of Java support for Azure Functions (blog)Create your first function with Java and Maven (docs)Azure Functions Java developer guide (docs)GitHub repositoryJava in VS Code (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @XiaokaiHe