Azure Friday (Audio)

Anand Subbaraj introduces Azure Data Factory, and explains why HDInsight users should adopt it to improve their reliability and maturity of their data analytics solution.

We expand on the last episode (Azure Service Bus Event Hubs 101) and demonstrate using an intelligent agent, EventProcessorHost, to scale out our telemetry processing. Dan Rosanova shows us the code and the techniques we need to know to pull in and process huge amounts of data.

Scott talks to Dan Rosanova about Azure Service Bus Event Hubs in this 101-level introduction. High level architecture and telemetry ingress are discussed and demonstrated in the context of cloud scale applications.

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps! You can scale out easily and tune indices just the way your users want it. Liam explains how the REST API for Azure Search works and how easy it is to plug into an app. You could have blazingly fast search on your site or in your app in no time. Scott and Liam integrate Azure Search in a web site easily in this short video. Azure Search Marketing Page Azure Search Doc Page Azure Blog Announcement

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps. In this video, Scott and Liam build on the Trail Application from the Azure Search 101 video and add a Bing Map turning their Spatial Data into a great Geographic web app! Azure Search Marketing Page Azure Search Doc Page Azure Blog Announcement

Scott talks to Rahul Bagaria from the Application Insights team. We'll cause some real errors in an Azure Website and then root-cause the issues by instrumenting the production site with Application Insights!

Open Source lover Cory Fowler teaches Scott how to use Vagrant to create and set up virtual machines on Microsoft Azure.

Scott talks to Daria Grigoriu about new support for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Websites. We'll see how you can set up separate roles and credentials and do Git deployments without giving away the keys to the whole city!

Scott and Amir continue digging into Power BI and the powerful Power BI Dashboard to explore huge amounts of data with an ease and flexibility.

Scott's brain explodes as Amir Netz introduces him to the new Power BI. Think BI is hard and perhaps Power BI isn't for you? Just watch.