Azure Friday

Tim Sander joins Scott Hanselman to discuss composite indexes and correlated subqueries using the SQL API in Azure Cosmos DB. A Request Unit, or RU, is the measure of throughput in Azure Cosmos DB. Learn how to optimize queries with a composite index to decrease the RUs needed for a given query. They also showcases correlated subqueries and examples of how they can make it easier to query arrays in Azure Cosmos DB.[0:01:15] - Demo: composite indexes [0:04:20] - Demo: correlated subqueriesIndexing policies in Azure Cosmos DB - Composite IndexesSQL subquery examples for Azure Cosmos DBAzure Cosmos DB workshop labs (GitHub)Azure Cosmos DB overviewCreate a free account (Azure)

Anavi Nahar joins Donovan Brown to show how virtual network peering enables you to connect networks seamlessly in Azure Virtual Network. The virtual networks appear as one for connectivity purposes. The traffic between virtual machines uses the Microsoft backbone infrastructure. Like traffic between virtual machines in the same network, traffic is routed through Microsoft's private network only.[0:02:08] - DemoAzure Virtual Network peeringWhat is Azure Virtual Network?Azure Virtual Network overviewTroubleshoot virtual network peering issuesCreate a free account (Azure)

Aung Oo joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Azure Ultra Disks. Ultra Disk is a new Managed Disks offering that delivers unprecedented and extremely scalable performance with sub-millisecond latency for the most demanding Azure Virtual Machines and container workloads.[0:02:00] - DemoUsing Azure ultra disksAzure Disk Storage overviewAnnouncing the general availability of Azure Ultra Disk StorageCreate a free account (Azure)

Jie Feng joins Scott Hanselman to show how to share SQL tables and views using Azure Data Share. Azure Data Share now supports snapshot-based sharing for SQL-based sources, including Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse. Data Providers can use Azure Data Share to share tables and views with their customers and partners in a governed, secure and simple way. Data Consumers have full flexibility into where data is received - with the ability to receive SQL-based data into an Azure SQL Database, SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 or Azure Blob Storage.[0:01:00] - DemoAzure Data Share documentationTutorial: Share data using Azure Data ShareTutorial: Accept and receive data using Azure Data ShareAzure Data Share overviewCreate a free account (Azure)

Thomas Maurer joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can connect your Windows Servers on-premises to Azure hybrid services like Azure Site Recovery to protect your virtual machines or Azure Update Management to keep your servers up to date.[0:01:28] - DemoConnecting Windows Server to Azure hybrid servicesAzure Site Recovery overviewUpdate Management solution in AzureHow to configure Azure Hybrid Services in Windows Admin CenterCreate a free account (Azure)

Learn how you can publish your SaaS solution and start generating revenue by making it available to potential buyers on Microsoft AppSource and Azure Marketplace. Ercenk Keresteci joins Scott Hanselman to cover the technical details of integrating a solution with Microsoft's commercial marketplace, including how to use scripts for provisioning and de-provisioning a customer.[0:05:00] - DemoAzure Marketplace and AppSource publishing guideCreate a new SaaS offerSaaS fulfillment APIs, version 2A sample for Azure Marketplace SaaS integration (GitHub)Create a free account (Azure)

Christina Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show what's new in Azure Cognitive Services.  Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer—without requiring machine-learning expertise.  All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand, and accelerate decision-making into your apps.[0:02:00] - DemoAzure Cognitive Services overviewContainer support in Azure Cognitive ServicesEnable receipt understanding with Form Recognizer's new capabilityStart building with Azure Cognitive Services for freeCreate a free account (Azure)

Keiko Harada joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use Prometheus to monitor containers in Azure Monitor.  Prometheus is a popular open source metric monitoring solution and is a part of Cloud Native Compute Foundation.  Customers who like the extensive metrics which Prometheus provides on Kubernetes also like how easy it is to use Azure Monitor for containers which provides fully managed, out of the box monitoring for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.[0:04:30] - DemoImproving observability of your Kubernetes deployments with Azure Monitor for containersAzure Monitor for Containers - MetricsConfigure scraping of Prometheus metrics with Azure Monitor for containersAzure Monitor overviewCreate a free account (Azure)

Most of the time, your apps are running happily and healthily. However, when things go wrong, you can use Genie and Navigator in App Service Diagnostics to figure out what's wrong. Jen Lee joins Scott Hanselman to show how the App Service Diagnostics interactive interface (Genie) guides you intelligently through the self-troubleshooting experience. Navigator, enables you to find potentially breaking changes to your app and its dependencies.[0:00:54] - DemoAzure App Service diagnostics overviewNavigator now provides dependency mapping and change analysis in App Service DiagnosticsProvide feedback on App Service DiagnosticsAzure App ServiceBakery Web App Template (GitHub repo)Create a free account (Azure)

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to show how wrangling data flows in Azure Data Factory empower you with a code-free, serverless environment that simplifies data preparation in the cloud and scales to any data size with no infrastructure management required. It uses the industry-leading Power Query data preparation technology (also used in Power Platform dataflows, Excel, and Power BI) to prepare and shape the data. Built to handle all the complexities and scale challenges of big data integration, wrangling data flows enable use Apache Spark execution to help you easily prepare data at scale.[0:02:00] - DemoWrangling data flows docsPower QueryAzure Data Factory overviewAzure Data Factory docsCreate a free account (Azure)