Azure Friday

Steve Ernst joins Scott Hanselman to introduce App Service diagnostics, which is the home for diagnosing and troubleshooting problems with your app. This intelligent service was built to diagnose many different problems and suggest targeted solutions for the customer. For more information, see: Announcing the general availability of Azure App Service diagnostics (blog)New App Service Support Center (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @stevenernst131

Azure Analysis Services makes it easier to build semantic models with the introduction of its new web modeling experience. In this episode, Josh Caplan will show you just how easy it is to use this experience to create a rich semantic model on top of data stored in Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Learn how to empower your business users to build their own reports with data at cloud scale.For more information, see: Learn the latest on Azure Analysis Services (blog)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @joshcaplan1984

Xiaokai He joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how easy it is for you to use Java to create an Azure Function, and then test & debug it locally before pushing it to the cloud. You can also use VS Code to implement lightweight Java applications such as Azure Functions.For more information, see: Announcing the preview of Java support for Azure Functions (blog)Create your first function with Java and Maven (docs)Azure Functions Java developer guide (docs)GitHub repositoryJava in VS Code (docs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @XiaokaiHe

JR Mayberry joins Scott Hanselman to discuss protecting applications on Azure from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks with the Azure DDoS Protection service. Azure resources now have access to the same DDoS Protection technology that protects other Microsoft online services, such as Xbox Live and Office 365.For more information, see:Azure DDoS Protection Service (product page)Azure DDoS pricing InformationAzure DDoS Protection (docs)Request to register for the limited previewCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @azureddos

Dave Fellows joins Donovan Brown to chat about a new service called Azure Batch Rendering, which is built on the Azure Batch service to provide capabilities for rendering 3D graphics for film and other visual media projects. The service provides pay-per-use licensing of the commercial applications commonly used in this field.  For more information, see: Azure Batch Rendering (overview)Azure Batch Rendering (docs)Azure Batch Applications (BatchLabs)Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dave_fellows

Emily Lawton joins Scott Hanselman to discuss what's new in Azure Cosmos DB's API for Mongo DB, including new preview features such as support for the aggregation pipeline and unique indexes. They discuss tips and tricks for importing large backups using MongoDB Tools.For more information, see:Azure Cosmos DB: API for MongoDBAzure Cosmos DB: Import MongoDB Data  Create a Free Account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @emilymlawton

Veljko Vasic shows Seth Juarez how Azure SQL Database uses built-in intelligence to continuously monitors database usage so that it can detect disruptive events that cause poor performance. Once detected, a detailed analysis is performed generating a diagnostic log with an intelligent assessment of the issue, which consists of a root cause analysis of the database performance issue and recommendations for performance improvements where possible (i.e., intelligent insights).For more information, see:Monitor Database Usage with Intelligent InsightsMonitor Azure SQL Database using Azure SQL Analytics (Preview) in Log AnalyticsCreate a Free Account (Azure)Follow @sethjuarez Follow @AzureFriday Follow @drveljko

Veljko Vasic demos the built-in automatic tuning intelligence mechanism in Azure SQL Database to show Seth Juarez how it can automatically tune and improve query performance by dynamically adapting the database to your workload. Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database might be one of the most important features that you can enable on Azure SQL Database to optimize the performance of your queries. For more information, see: Automatic tuning in Azure SQL Database Automatic tuning in SQL Server Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @sethjuarez Follow @AzureFriday Follow @drveljko

Telmo Sampaio joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Building Blocks 2.0 (azbb), which is an open-source command line tool and set of Azure Resource Manager templates designed to simplify deployment of Azure resources. It enables you to use infrastructure as code in Azure without worrying about the complexity of ARM resources. For more information, see: Building Blocks (GitHub) Simplifying Resource Deployment (GitHub) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @telmo_sampaio

Gabe Monroy joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Container Service (AKS), Microsoft's new managed Kubernetes service. Now you can easily manage your Kubernetes environment by simplifying the deployment, management, and operations activities without sacrificing portability. You gain all the benefits of Kubernetes without the complexity and operational overhead. For more information, see: Azure Container Service (docs) Azure Container Service (overview) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @gabrtv