Azure Friday (Audio)

Sean McKenna drops by Azure Friday to discuss and demo Cloud Foundry, an open-source cloud application platform following the recent announcement that Microsoft has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is available in the Azure Marketplace for ease of deployment on Azure. Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @seanmckmsft

Niraj Gandhi joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demonstrate Azure Managed Applications. Managed service providers (MSPs), ISVs, and corporate IT teams can create managed applications to deliver solutions through the Azure Marketplace or the Service Catalog. Because the publisher manages and supports the applications, those who deploy them don't have to develop the additional expertise to maintain, update, or service them. For more information, see: Azure Managed Applications (blog) Azure managed applications overview (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @helloniraj

Leon Welicki wows Scott Hanselman with recent updates to the Azure Portal, including new usability features, how you can preview new portal features, keyboard shortcuts, improved filtering, bulk actions, accessibility, portal-wide search, dashboard customization, and more. For more information, see: Azure portal (Preview) Microsoft Azure portal Microsoft Azure portal overview Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @LWelicki

Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how to optimize content delivery with Azure CDN for various customer scenarios, such as general web delivery, large file download, and media streaming. With one little hint from customer about the scenario, Azure CDN will apply the a set of default optimizations in the backend which provides optimal performance of content delivery. For more information, see: Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Azure CDN docs Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to demo the recent integration of CDN into Azure Web App, Storage and Media Services portal experience. Enabling and managing a CDN for these services is extremely simple with a few clicks and without leaving the portal. For more information, see: Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Azure CDN docs Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Bahram Banisadr introduces Scott Hanselman to Azure Event Grid, which is a fully-managed event service for managing events across many different Azure services and applications. Made for performance and scale, it simplifies building event-driven applications and serverless architectures. For more information, see: Azure Event Grid: An Event Grid for Modern Applications (blog) Azure Event Grid (product overview) Azure Event Grid (documentation) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @BAHRAwesoMe

Matt Nielson joins Donovan Brown to show off a preview of App Service Domain, which gives you a first-class experience in the Azure portal to create and manage domains that will be hosted on Azure DNS for your Azure services such as Web Apps, Traffic Manager, Virtual Machines, and more. For more information, see: Announcing the preview of App Service domain (blog) Buy a custom domain name for Azure Web Apps (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday

Aravind Krishna shows Scott Hanselman how to get started with the Table API for Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed multi-model database. Using the API, applications running on Azure Table storage can take advantage of secondary indexes, turnkey global distribution, dedicated throughput, and single digit millisecond latency with 99.99% comprehensive SLAs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Table API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @arkramac

Kirill Gavrylyuk talks Azure Cosmos DB and Graphs with Scott, exploring why we need graphs, and what we can we do with graphs on Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB offers native graph gremlin API support in addition MongoDB, SQL, and others. Graphs in Azure Cosmos DB also enjoy the same global distribution, low latency, limitless throughput, and 99.99% SLAs as other APIs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Graph API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft

Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. With Cloud Shell's built-in authentication and pre-installed tools, getting work done on Azure has never been easier. For more information, see: Azure Cloud Shell (docs) Azure Cloud Shell (overview) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @whosjluk