Azure Friday

Gaurav Malhotra joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how you can follow industry-leading best practices to do continuous integration and deployment for your Extract Transform/Load (ETL) and Extract Load/Transform (ELT) workflows to multiple environments such as Dev, Test, Prod, and more.For more information:Continuous integration and deployment using Data Factory (Azure blog)Continuous integration and deployment in Azure Data Factory (Docs)Create a free Azure accountFollow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gauravmalhot12

Aravind Krishna stops by to chat with Scott Hanselman and take a look at common design patterns for building highly scalable solutions with Azure Cosmos DB. We will talk a little bit about modeling data and how to choose an appropriate partition key. We then look at a few patterns like event sourcing, time series data, and patterns for addressing bottlenecks/hot spots for reads, writes, and storage.For more information:Azure Cosmos DB (overview)Azure Cosmos DB (docs)Partition and scale in Azure Cosmos DBCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @arkramac

Kelly Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Security Center, which offers built-in security management and threat protection for your cloud workloads. Azure Security Center helps you find & fix vulnerabilities, aids in blocking malicious access and alerts you when your resources are under attack. For more information:Azure Security Center documentation Azure Security blog Azure Security Center overview Azure Security Center pricing  Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kellyanderson93

Metaparticle is an experimental, cloud-native development environment for democratizing and simplifying the development of reliable distributed applications. It uses a code-first approach, so developers can describe the composite nature of their application with easy to apply patterns and practices to annotate their existing code.For more information, see:MetaparticleMetaparticle.io on GitHubMetaparticle tutorialsCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @brendandburns

Mike Emard joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Files, which offers fully managed file shares in the cloud, and deep dive into the latest backup and restore capability in Azure Files.For more information:Introducing backup for Azure file shares (Azure blog)Overview of share snapshots for Azure Files (docs)Hybrid Storage with Azure File Sync (Azure Friday)Azure Files (overview)Create a free account (Azure)Email feedback to the Azure Storage Team: [email protected] @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

James Montemagno joins Scott Hanselman to show how powerful Azure services can be used with Visual Studio and Xamarin to create cloud-connected mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows, using one toolset and development language (C#) across front-end and back-end.For more information, see:Geo Contacts app source code on GitHubData & Cloud Services docs for Xamarin.FormsMobile apps using Xamarin + Azure guideCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @jamesmontemagno

Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Virtual Machine Serial Console, which allows console access to Azure VMs. This allows you to connect and recover VMs which are in a stuck state due to OS or configuration issues. For more information:Azure's Virtual Machine Serial Console (docs)Announced at Ignite - Azure Compute: New features and roadmapCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Harijayms

Nick Rycar from Chef stops by Azure Friday to chat with Donovan Brown about Habitat, a simple, flexible way to build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications. Habitat makes it easier to develop and promote changes by enabling each instance of your application to continually and independently apply updates as soon as they're ready.For more information, see:Habitat (home)Habitat (docs)Habitat bldr public depotCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @rycar

The Azure SDK for Go provides Go packages for managing and using Azure services using the Go language. Deploy your Go app to Azure Web Apps and take advantage of managed services, such as PostgreSQL, Storage, Identity, and more.For more information, see:Azure SDK for GoVanpool Manager sample applicationAzure for Go developers (docs)Azure SDK for Go SamplesCreate a Free Account (Azure) Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joshugav

Joey Aiello joins Donovan Brown to discuss PowerShell Core 6.0, a cross-platform, open-source edition of PowerShell based on .NET Core built for heterogeneous environments and the hybrid cloud. You'll also learn about how the upcoming release of OpenSSH for Windows and Windows Server will enable new ways to remotely manage your environments, as well as how PowerShell Core integrates with OpenSSH.For more information, see:What's New in PowerShell Core 6.0 (docs)OpenSSH now available in PowerShell in Cloud Shell (Azure updates)Using Windows PowerShell for Administration (sample scripts)PowerShell DocumentationPowerShell Remoting Over SSH (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @donovanbrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joeyaiello