Azure Friday (Audio)

Pranav and Seth go in depth about Redis Cache and improving security.

In this video we will look at some of the best practices on how should you pick the right Redis Cache offering for your use case. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-faq/

Redis clustering gives you maximum scale and throughput. Azure Redis Cache offers Redis cluster as implemented in Redis. In Azure, Redis cluster is offered as a primary/replica model where each shard has a primary/replica pair with replication where the replication is managed by Azure Redis Cache service. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-how-to-premium-clustering/ http://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial

How to get started with Akamai on Azure CDN, our newest provider, using both the Azure portal and a Powershell script. We explore the features and options in setting up an endpoint, and look at reasons for using multiple CDN providers. The Cedexis site mentioned here.

At Azure Support, our aim is to help you in your cloud journey, all the way from initial experimentation to running production workloads on Azure with confidence. Software fails, hardware breaks and you can run into issues when trying new things. That's why it's important that you're able to diagnose and resolve issues quickly. To support those efforts, the Azure Support team is pleased to share features in the management portal to help you diagnose and resolve issues, find authoritative troubleshooting resources (tools, guided steps and articles) and easily get additional help as needed. Learn more

Den Delimarsky shows how to quickly build a Chrome app that will leverage Azure Notification Hubs for push notifications within the browser. You can follow the official tutorial.

Den Delimarsky shows how to use Azure Notification Hubs to deliver push notifications to an Android application. You can follow the official tutorial and download the sample code on GitHub.

Den Delimarsky shows how to use Azure Notification Hubs from a Xamarin.Android application. You can follow the official tutorial.

Microsoft Azure will be offering state of the art GPU visualization infrastructure and GPU compute infrastructure for various different scenarios like gaming, streaming, transcoding, machine learning, visualized CAD applications and many more other workloads that utilize GPUs. Relevant Links: Introduction to NVIDIA GPUs in Azure http://connect.teradici.com/blog/teradici-joins-azure-big-compute-team-onstage-at-build-2016 http://connect.teradici.com/blog/teradici-and-microsoft-azure-to-turn-heads-at-siggraph-2016

Seth Juarez talks to Chuck Weininger and Vance Morrison about the power of Azure Service Profiler. It can help you debug performance problems for many different Azure workloads, but they specifically demonstrate how to get it working for Azure Web Apps.