Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. Where do Transactions fit in? How can Services scale AND be reliable?

Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a Performance Testing your Azure Web Apps. Is this video we use Visual Studio Enterprise and spin up a sophisticated load test that includes multiple kinds of users (light browsers vs. a serious power user). We use the power of Azure and Visual Studio Online to push massive load than you could from your local machine and we manage it all from within Visual Studio.

Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a great new feature that lets you performance test your Azure Web Application directly from the Azure Portal! From the Tools menu of an Azure Web Application, we're able to launch a performance test and ensure that our Staging Site can keep up with a production load. Later we can swap our staging and production and test again! Be sure to check out the second Performance Testing Azure Friday as we perform a more advanced test from within Visual Studio.

After the team's success of how-old.net, Mat Velloso decided to create twinsornot.net just to see how easy it would be! In this episode he shares the code with Scott, and with you on GitHub! You'll see how you can call APIs like the Face API and many others in the Azure Marketplace. We'll also see how the site scales and how easy it was to add analytics as well.

Scott talks to Corom Thompson from Azure Machine Learning. In just minutes Corom adds Machine Learning intelligence to a chat app, adding emoji based on a sentiment analysis of the text!

This week Scott talks to David Justice about the open source tool AutoRest. AutoRest generates client side SDKs in a number of languages using a Web API's (or an Azure API App's) swagger endpoint. Consume from any language and produce from (almost) any language with this powerful open source tool.

Scott talks about the Microsoft Azure CDN Updates for July 2015 with Anton Kucer. Country filtering support, great reporting features, and more this month!

Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This third episode covers how you can change your API's output based on your subscriber level. For example, free product users could get cached data while premium users would get realtime data. You can make these kinds of Policy Expressions and change your API without changing a line of your APIs code!

Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This second episode talks about how JSON Web Tokens work and shows some of the online tools you'll use to express policies and then apply them with a Policy Definition.

Principal Engineer Corom Thompson shares the story behind viral Internet site http://www.how-old.net! How was it made, how does it work, and more importantly, how did it scale when the whole internet showed up at its door?