Scott Hanselman and Mahip Deora explore the Azure cross-region Load Balancer, a global OSI Model Layer 4 load balancing solution. Now you can distribute traffic across multiple regions with ultra-low latency and high performance. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Load balancing options 03:24 - Request routing 06:55 - Global load balancing 15:34 - Demo in the Azure portal 19:17 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Cross-region Load Balancer Global distribution solutions with Microsoft Azure Tutorial: Create a cross-region load balancer Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Networking | Twitter/X: @AzNetEng Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Join Scott Hanselman, Kirill Gavrylyuk, and James Codella to learn about Azure Cosmos DB's built-in vector search capabilities, how customers are using it in their AI apps, and how you can easily get started today. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:05 - Overview with Kirill Gavrylyuk 06:46 - Real world example: Asos 09:12 - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 11:57 - Demo setup with James Codella 15:00 - Deploy to Azure 16:53 - Azure OpenAI Studio 26:19 - Graduating from the Chat Playground 29:13 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Vector database - Azure Cosmos DB Azure OpenAI On Your Data Azure / Vector-Search-AI-Assistant-MongoDBvCore Try Azure Cosmos DB for free Introducing the General Availability of Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore! Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Cosmos DB | Twitter/X: @AzureCosmosDB Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Join Stefan Wernli and Scott Hanselman as they unveil the full capabilities of the Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0. This latest update revolutionizes quantum coding with a Rust-based core, ensuring speed, portability, and direct browser accessibility. Dive into the Azure Quantum portal, now enhanced with Copilot guidance, and transition seamlessly to web-based VS Code. Here, you can craft quantum algorithms, simulate, and refine your Q# creations, dispatch them to quantum processors, and leverage the Azure Quantum Resource Estimator to gauge the scalability of your quantum solutions. Start your quantum journey today, from novice exploration to expert innovation. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:56 - Getting started 07:20 - Continue coding in vscode.dev 11:40 - Debugging quantum code 16:22 - Running code on a quantum machine 21:12 - Resource estimation 26:11 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Quantum What's New in the Modern QDK Exploring space-time tradeoffs with Azure Quantum Resource Estimator GitHub - microsoft/qsharp Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Try Azure Cosmos DB for free Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Khelan Modi joins Scott Hanselman to explore the features of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, highlighting enhanced compatibility, seamless Azure integration, and flat pricing. The vCore-based architecture streamlines MongoDB workloads, offering real-time AI capabilities, an optimized structure for rich queries, and support for distributed transactions. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - Demo in the Azure portal 06:50 - Khelan's blog post 08:08 - Documentation 08:27 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Introducing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore: Now Generally Available! Quickstart: Create an Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore cluster by using the Azure portal What is Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore? What is RU-based and vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB? Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Try Azure Cosmos DB for free Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Khelan Modi | LinkedIn: /in/khelan-modi/ Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Azure Container Storage offers highly scalable, cost-efficient, and performant storage, built natively for containers. Azure Container Storage simplifies management, deployment, and orchestration of storage volumes seamlessly across volume types including Azure Disk Storage, Azure Elastic SAN, and ephemeral disks. Vybava Ramadoss joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can scale up to multiple users in real time on JupyterHub with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Storage. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:23 - Why Azure Container Storage? 04:10 - Inside Azure Container Storage 06:15 - Demo setup 07:45 - Demo 16:10 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Azure Container Storage? Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview Quickstart: Use Azure Container Storage Preview with Azure Kubernetes Service Public preview: Azure Container Storage Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure Contact the team

Socket.IO is a library for building low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server. Now you can build real-time apps with Azure Web PubSub for Socket.IO and say goodbye to using adapters. Kevin Guo and Chenyang Liu are here to show Scott Hanselman how it works, today on Azure Friday. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - What is Socket.IO? 02:19 - What pain point does this eliminate? 06:00 - Azure Trivia Game example app 13:05 - Scott peels back the cover 15:32 - Simple code change to implement 16:49 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Socket.IO on Azure blog post Overview Socket.IO on Azure Quickstart: Incorporate Web PubSub for Socket.IO in your app Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Katherine Lu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new capabilities of Elastic SAN, a new storage offering that offers a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance, and comprehensive storage solution for a range of compute options. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:41 - What is Azure Elastic SAN? 03:05 - Azure Elastic SAN capabilities 05:15 - Azure Elastic SAN demo 12:23 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Elastic SAN What is Azure Elastic SAN? Deploy an Elastic SAN Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Tom Kerkhove joins Scott Hanselman for a hands-on experience to demonstrate how enterprises can make the transition to API-first architectures and microservices in a hybrid, multicloud world with the self-hosted gateway in Azure API Management. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Concepts 06:38 - Demo setup 10:46 - Demo self-hosted gateway 23:09 - Wrap-up Recommended resources API gateway in Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway overview Guidance for running self-hosted gateway on Kubernetes in production Azure / api-management-self-hosted-gateway Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Tom Kerkhove | Twitter: @TomKerkhove Azure API Management | Twitter: @AzureApiMgmt Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Harold Campos joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Logic Apps to build native integration solutions for mainframes and midranges, including IBM DB2, Host Files, CICS, IMS, MQ, 3270 systems, and many more. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of mainframes and midranges 03:21 - Mainframe modernization 04:28 - Azure Logic Apps for legacy modernization 07:24 - Demo: Azure Logic Apps workflow and mainframe connectors 15:13 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Azure Logic Apps? What is HIS (Host Integration Server) Azure Integration Services Blog Azure Logic Apps: Cloud Native Capabilities to Integrate with Mainframe and Midranges Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Harold Campos | Twitter: @hcamposu Azure Logic Apps | Twitter: @logicappsio Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Ben Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to walk through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights, which is a native monitoring solution that gives you visibility into connection characteristics and optimization opportunities for your AVD environment. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Macro and micro analysis 01:33 - Overview tab 03:33 - Connection Diagnostics tab 04:44 - Connection Performance tab 05:37 - Utilization tab 12:20 - Clients tab 14:57 - Configuring AVD Insights 16:30 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Use Azure Virtual Desktop Insights to monitor your deployment Estimate Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring costs Autoscale scaling plans and example scenarios in Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Virtual Desktop Insights glossary Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure