Suwat Bodin educates Scott about Azure Websites Site Extensions. Together they create a simple Site Extension and upload it to http://www.siteextensions.net/. Areas covered in this video: Using Kudu and Site Control Manager Exploring the Process Explorer and Debug Console Looking at the Site Extension Gallery Viewing the File Counter extension Creating a site extension Making the site extension available Useful topics and links: Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing Azure WebSites - Best Practices

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Topics, Queues and Relays. Then, Dan builds a simple app in Python that talks to Azure Service Bus. Areas covered in this video: Creating a new namespace. Creating and running a new Python application in Visual Studio. Viewing the output message in Azure. Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

What are Web Hosting Plans in Azure, and what kinds of advanced functionality do they hold? Scott talks with Yochay and learns how to manipulate hosting plans to best benefit.

Scott learns from Sunitha Muthukrishna the best practices to keep in mind when creating Azure Websites. How should my site architecture change when I move to the cloud? Areas covered in this video: Understanding that outages can happen and you can mitigate risks Key principles to following when designing for the Cloud Considering the end-user experience when something fails Architecture Best Practices Useful topics and links: Azure .NET Dev Center - Architecture and Guidance Related videos: Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing

Azure Websites recently added support for multiple deployment "slots" like Dev, Test, and Staging. Daria Grigoriu shows Scott how this works and we look at scenarios where slots can be useful. Areas covered in this video: Understanding deployment slots and reasons to use them Understanding the support for deployment, configuration, and validation Reviewing an example of using deployment slots Swapping the example website to production, rolling back, and redeploying Useful topics and links: Deployment slots in Azure Websites expanded to 4+1 slots Staged Deployment on Microsoft Azure Web Sites Related videos: Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing

Traffic Manager comes to Azure Websites and Eduardo Laureano is here to tell Scott about how this feature makes Azure WebSites way more powerful. We create and load-balance sites globally! Areas covered in this video: Understanding load-balancing for Websites Supporting existing methods Understanding load-balancing between regions Walking through the traffic manager and endpoints Testing out the example Useful topics and links: Traffic Manager Traffic Manager Overview Traffic Manager Configuration Tasks Related videos: Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites

Azure Websites gets even more useful with automatic and easy backup/restore, now baked into the platform. Eduardo Laureano schools Scott on this new feature. Areas covered in this video: Understanding what a backup can include Understanding how to setup an automated backup rather than a manual backup Viewing the backup contents Creating a new site and restoring the backup to the new site Useful topics and links: Azure Web Sites Backups Restore a Microsoft Azure web site Related videos: Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites

The march of Pranav continues, this time deep into the Azure WebJobs SDK. You can affect how your Web Jobs run and take full control when you write to the Azure WebJobs SDK. Pranav shows Scott powerful jobs written in C#. Areas covered in this video: Understanding the **ReadFromQueue() function and how it works. Understanding how to do advanced binding. Reviewing an example of plugging in a custom binder. Understanding **BlobInput and blob metadata. Useful topics and links: Using the WebJobs feature of Windows Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 105 - Scaling out Web Jobs Azure WebJobs 106 - The WebJobs Dashboard as a Site Extension Azure WebJobs 107 - Cross Platform WebJobs Azure WebJobs 108 - Notifications from WebJobs

Pranav Rastogi continues to dive into Azure WebJobs, this time showing how notifications can be hooked into a WebJob. Maybe I can get texted when a job runs! Areas covered in this video: Understanding what happens when a triggered job completes. Using Zapier.com to make a phone call when a WebJob completes. Understanding how to gracefully shutdown a WebJob. Useful topics and links: Using the WebJobs feature of Windows Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman www.zapier.com https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/web-jobs Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 105 - Scaling out Web Jobs Azure WebJobs 106 - The WebJobs Dashboard as a Site Extension Azure WebJobs 107 - Cross Platform WebJobs

What other languages can be used to make an Azure WebJob? Can I deploy from the command line? Pranav Rastogi gets advanced and we deploy from DOS (not really). Areas covered in this video: Understanding cross platform command-line support to manage WebJobs Viewing WebJobs for a site using the command-line Viewing the JSON output that the API returns from the command-line Uploading a new WebJob from the command-line Reviewing how you can control WebJobs Useful topics and links: Using the WebJobs feature of Windows Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 105 - Scaling out Web Jobs Azure WebJobs 106 - The WebJobs Dashboard as a Site Extension