Azure Friday (Audio)

Vybava Ramadoss joins Scott Hanselman to share the new interactive experience for the Azure Marketplace, which makes it easier to navigate the product catalog and find the right solution for your cloud application. Marketplace provides a rich catalog of thousands of products and solutions that range from open source and community software to enterprise applications that have been certified and optimized to run on Azure.

Nitika Gupta joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Azure AD Identity Protection, which uses technologies and machine learning capabilities that Microsoft uses to help protect Microsoft Account identities. If you're using Azure AD Premium, you're just one step away from including these protections for your Azure AD accounts.

Anthony Howe joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Helm in Azure Container Service, which is a package manager for Kubernetes that enables the community to share best practices for installing distributed applications, such as from KubeApps.

Steve Lasker joins Scott Hanselman to demo & discuss Azure Container Registry, which was in preview since November 2016. Since then, we have received a lot of valuable feedback from customers that we've worked to incorporate, which enables us to move Azure Container Registry to GA.

John Kemnetz joins Scott Hanselman to show how to unlock the power of Azure monitoring data with Azure Monitor. Azure Monitor is the built-in platform monitoring service that provides a single pipeline for monitoring and diagnostics data across all Azure services, enabling you to monitor, diagnose, and get alerts & notifications of problems in your cloud infrastructure.

Telmo Sampaio joins Scott Hanselman to discuss & demo a solution for implementing a high availability configuration for most types of network virtual appliances (NVA), which was created by the Azure CAT Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft. The NVA monitor client is implemented as a ZooKeeper client running in a Docker container, while a ZooKeeper server ensemble runs in multiple Docker containers and provides concurrency and leader election for the NVA monitor client nodes. For more information, see Highly Available Ingress/Egress with layer 7 NVAs.

Andrew Liu joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure DocumentDB's language integrated, transactional execution of JavaScript, which enables developers write stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions (UDFs) natively in JavaScript. Andrew also shares best practices for writing these stored procedures.

Adrian Hall joins Scott Hanselman to explain the new features and demo push notifications in Azure App Service, which is a secure way to use Azure Mobile Apps to integrate mobile apps with Azure Notification Hubs to receive push notifications.

Arif Kureshy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to extend the Common Data Service (CDS) base schema for custom scenarios. CDS ships with over 65 standard entity sets that you can use to build apps for many common scenarios.

Manbeen Kohli joins Scott Hanselman to explain and demo Azure Advisor, your personalized cloud consultant that guides you to optimal resource configurations. It delivers best practices recommendations to improve the high availability, security and performance of your resources, while looking for opportunities to optimize your overall Azure spend. Get started with Advisor today by visiting https://aka.ms/azureadvisor. Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday