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The video describes the new Logic Apps Hybrid deployment model that allows customers to run their integration workloads in their own Kubernetes environments. This is ideal for customers initiating their journey to the cloud and hosting multiple on-premises workloads, who need to meet industry regulations, who wants to reuse their own Kubernetes infrastructure, or to avoid the natural latency introduced in hybrid configurations. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:50 - Creation of a Logic Apps with hybrid deployment model 06:25 - Creation of a workflow 08:15 - The power of the Workflow Designer 09:00 - Open telemetry in Logic Apps 10:05 - Zip deploy 10:45 - Rules engine 14:12 - Core concepts of Hybrid 14:52 - Wrap up Recommended resources Set up your own infrastructure for Standard logic apps using hybrid deployment Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Harold Campos | Twitter/X: @hcampsosu | LinkedIn Harold Campos | YouTube Harold Campos Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jan Kalis to demo Azure Code Optimizations for .NET. See how Azure’s AI-driven capabilities help you find real-world performance issues in your apps, ground Copilot suggestions with production data, and even help auto-generate PRs with benchmarked code fixes with GitHub Copilot software agent. Watch the live demo and learn how to level up your .NET performance using insights for your running .NET applications on Azure! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - See how Code Optimizations helps improve app performance 03:00 - Demo – part 1 – Review your Code Optimizations on Azure portal 06:20 - Demo – part 2 – Optimize code with GH Copilot for Azure in VS Code 10:16 - Demo – part 3 – Move faster from insights to PR with GH Copilot software agent Recommended resources Check your Code Optimizations recommendations Documentation Feedback Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Jan Kalis | LinkedIn: Jan Kalis Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Daya Patil drops in on Scott Hanselman to chat about getting started with Azure Business continuity Center, a single pane of glass for all your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) needs across solutions and platforms for various key pillars like manage, monitor, Govern and audit compliance along with ability to perform core actions from centralized place. Recommended resources Azure Business Continuity Center Business Continuity with ABCC Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/x: @SHanselman Azure App Service | Twitter/x: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/x: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/x: @Azure

In this session Tulika Chaudharie joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Sidecar feature in Azure App Service and how it helps developers extend their applications with additional functionality. Learn how to run sidecar containers alongside your main app to add capabilities like logging, monitoring, caching, or background processing. Recommended resources Sidecar in Azure App Service Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/x: @SHanselman Azure App Service | Twitter/x: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/x: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/x: @Azure

Rakhi Thejraj joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Cosmos DB! Azure Cosmos DB has been constantly bringing new features to boost performance and optimize costs. Azure Cosmos DB has optimized the autoscale feature to make it more cost-effective for customers with non-uniform workloads such as highly trafficked primary region and a passive secondary region just for disaster recovery. This breakthrough feature is called Dynamic Scaling. Binary Encoding feature on the other hand has optimized the storage and query costs Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Dynamic scaling 08:47 - Binary encoding Recommended resources Dynamic scaling Blog Dynamic scaling Public Documentation Dynamic scaling FAQ Binary Encoding Blog Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/x: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/x: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/x: @Azure

New Relic’s all-in-one observability platform makes it simple to optimize your performance by giving you a single source of truth to analyze your apps, infrastructure, and all of your Azure services. Glenn Thomas from New Relic joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure’s Native New Relic Service in Azure. Glenn demos how easy it is to get started with New Relic and manage Azure resources directly in the Azure portal. In addition, he provides an overview of how New Relic can help quickly identify and troubleshoot performance issues, including a look at Ask AI in New Relic Observability. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:53 - Getting started from Azure Marketplace 02:27 - Exploring a new service 03:10 - Installing New Relic extension in a VM 04:05 - Accessing your New Relic service with SSO 04:47 - Troubleshooting scenario walkthrough with AI analysis 11:23 - Ask AI in New Relic 14:00 - Wrap-up Recommended resources New Relic's Azure Native Solution on the Azure Marketplace Azure Native New Relic Service Introduction New Relic AI New Relic Errors Inbox New Relic Distributed Tracing Azure Native New Relic Service: Full stack observability in minutes Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday New Relic | Twitter/X: @NewRelic Azure Support | Twitter/X: @AzureSupport

Nandini Bajaj joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the new alerting and reporting capabilities released by Azure BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) on the Business Continuity Center to monitor your estate protected with the Azure Site Recovery service. We announced built-in Site Recovery alerts on Azure Monitor so you can manage all your alerts on a single platform where you can configure notifications to various channels using webhook, ITSM etc. We also launched out-of-box reports for Azure Site Recovery which will give you a transparent view of the job details and replication health of protected items. With these reports you can now be ready for audit and executive updates by customizing them to your need. Configure your Log Analytics workspace and set up diagnostic settings to leverage the reports. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:36 - Alerting 06:35 - Azure Monitor 08:47 - Reporting 14:40 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Built-in monitoring for Azure Site Recovery Configure Azure Site Recovery reports About Site Recovery Azure Site Recovery Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Richa Gaur joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how to boost developer productivity & app efficiency with Azure Cosmos DB while building an energy optimization solution for enterprises to hit their emission targets. They start with a serverless Azure Cosmos DB account to dive into development without the hassle of capacity planning. Next, they explore how to seamlessly adjust partition keys for containers as large tenants join the platform. Finally, they transition from a serverless setup to a provisioned throughput mode, leveraging the cloud database’s performance and availability guarantees to ensure your solution is both reliable and high performing. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - The demo app 04:56 - Adjusting partition keys (offline) 09:55 - Adjusting partition keys (online) 13:14 - Switch to provisioned throughput 16:37 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Changing the partition key in Azure Cosmos DB Container copy jobs in Azure Cosmos DB Change from serverless to provisioned capacity mode in Azure Cosmos DB for NoSQL Azure Cosmos DB serverless account type Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Richa Gaur | Twitter/X: @nonomadicc Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure Cosmos DB | Twitter/X: @AzureCosmosDB

Did you know that with the Accelerated Logs feature in Azure Database for MySQL Business Critical service tier, the service provides 100% improvement in throughput? Additionally, you can automatically scale IOPS up to 80k and storage up to 32TB based on your workload needs. Siddhant (Sidd) Sawant joins Scott Hanselman to walk through the benefits of this tier and highlight its superior performance. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - Updates to Azure DB for MySQL 04:53 - Demo of Accelerated Logs 08:28 - Discussion 10:52 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Advancements in the Business Critical service tier for Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server Microsoft Azure innovation powers leading price-performance for MySQL database in the cloud New advancements in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server Business Critical service tier (YouTube) Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server service tiers Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Darren Tu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new UI in Azure Cloud Shell and ephemeral (non-persistent) Cloud Shell sessions. Learn more about the Azure Cloud Shell container image and how to engage the team on GitHub. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Old Cloud Shell UI 01:33 - New Cloud Shell UI 02:15 - Ephemeral sessions 04:25 - Exploring the new UI 05:15 - Accessing Cloud Shell 06:17 - Cloud Shell container contents 07:45 - Switching session settings 08:30 - Azure / CloudShell GitHub repo 10:17 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Azure Cloud Shell? Access your Azure Cloud Shell Azure / CloudShell repo on GitHub Azure Cloud Shell product page Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @shanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @azurefriday Darren Tu | LinkedIn: /in/darrentu/