Brendan Burns joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss GA of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Developers can drastically simplify how they build and run container-based solutions without deep Kubernetes expertise.For more information:Quickstart: Deploy an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusterAzure Container Hackfest repo on GitHubSample: BikeSharing360Node repo on GitHubAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS) product pageAzure Kubernetes Service RoadmapNew eBook: Kubernetes objects on Microsoft AzureCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday Follow @brendandburns

Shrirang Shirodkar joins Donovan Brown to discuss what's new in App Service for Java developers. You'll see how Java developers can build web apps for Linux without having to deal with custom Docker containers (i.e., how to use the Tomcat Docker containers provided out of the box). How to use the new deployment mechanism in Kudu - 'wardeploy' (for Linux and Windows both). You'll learn what are the problems with existing deployment mechanisms and how wardeploy solves it.For more information, see:Use a custom Docker image for Web App for Containers (docs)Azure-App-Service/tomcat repo (GitHub)projectkudu/kudu: Deploying WAR files using wardeploy (GitHub)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @shrishrirang

Jayanta Mondal stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about Gremlin, the traversal query language for Cosmos DB graph. Gremlin being a dataflow language and procedural is nature, writing efficient Gremlin queries requires the knowledge of graph structure and the query execution plan. Learn how to structure a Gremlin query, and what are the best practices, and tips & tricks to get the best performance.For more information:Azure Cosmos DB product pageIntroduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Graph API (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azurecosmosdb

Carey MacDonald stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman about Azure Cosmos DB, a managed database service with unlimited horizontal scale, allowing you to scale storage and throughput independently. In this video, Carey will cover how to partition your data in Azure Cosmos DB, best practices for choosing a partition key, and how to troubleshoot bad partition key choices.For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB product pagePartition and scale in Azure Cosmos DB (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azurecosmosdb

Brendan Burns joins Donovan Brown to discuss how you can quickly and easily build a containerized Node.js app on Linux and deploy it to Azure Kubernetes Service using Visual Studio Code and the Visual Studio Code Kubernetes Extension.For more information:Kubernetes Extension for Visual Studio CodeSource code for the Kubernetes Extension on GitHubCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @brendandburns

Azure MVP Barry Luijbregts chats with Scott Hanselman about how he goes about choosing the right services in Azure to run his applications and store his data. For more information, see:Overview of Azure servicesPluralsight course: Microsoft Azure for Developers: What to Use When (paywall)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azurebarry

Data Integration is becoming more and more complex as customer requirements and expectations are continuously changing. Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how users can now develop and debug their Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows iteratively using Azure Data Factory.For more information:Iterative development and debugging with Azure Data Factory (docs)Iterative development and debugging using Data Factory (blog post)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gauravmalhot12

Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Big Data and Analytics from Shubha Vijayasarathy.For more information, see:Big data and analyticsAzure Event HubsText Classification with SQL ServerCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday

Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Azure IoT Edge from Olivier Bloch.For more information, see:Azure IoT Edge overviewAzure IoT Edge docsAzure IoT Edge (GitHub)Azure Iot Edge Starter Kit Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday

Azure Friday visited various Microsoft booths in the Expo Hall at Build 2018 to learn what's new. In this episode, Lara Rubbelke gets an update on Cognitive Services - Languages (LUIS) from Ahmed Ashour.For more information, see:Cognitive ServicesCognitive Services (docs)Create a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday