Leon Welicki wows Scott Hanselman with recent updates to the Azure Portal, including new usability features, how you can preview new portal features, keyboard shortcuts, improved filtering, bulk actions, accessibility, portal-wide search, dashboard customization, and more. For more information, see: Azure portal (Preview) Microsoft Azure portal Microsoft Azure portal overview Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @LWelicki

Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how to optimize content delivery with Azure CDN for various customer scenarios, such as general web delivery, large file download, and media streaming. With one little hint from customer about the scenario, Azure CDN will apply the a set of default optimizations in the backend which provides optimal performance of content delivery. For more information, see: Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Azure CDN docs Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Manling Zhang joins Scott Hanselman to demo the recent integration of CDN into Azure Web App, Storage and Media Services portal experience. Enabling and managing a CDN for these services is extremely simple with a few clicks and without leaving the portal. For more information, see: Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) Azure CDN docs Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Bahram Banisadr introduces Scott Hanselman to Azure Event Grid, which is a fully-managed event service for managing events across many different Azure services and applications. Made for performance and scale, it simplifies building event-driven applications and serverless architectures. For more information, see: Azure Event Grid: An Event Grid for Modern Applications (blog) Azure Event Grid (product overview) Azure Event Grid (documentation) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @BAHRAwesoMe

Matt Nielson joins Donovan Brown to show off a preview of App Service Domain, which gives you a first-class experience in the Azure portal to create and manage domains that will be hosted on Azure DNS for your Azure services such as Web Apps, Traffic Manager, Virtual Machines, and more. For more information, see: Announcing the preview of App Service domain (blog) Buy a custom domain name for Azure Web Apps (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday

Aravind Krishna shows Scott Hanselman how to get started with the Table API for Azure Cosmos DB, the globally distributed multi-model database. Using the API, applications running on Azure Table storage can take advantage of secondary indexes, turnkey global distribution, dedicated throughput, and single digit millisecond latency with 99.99% comprehensive SLAs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Table API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @arkramac

Kirill Gavrylyuk talks Azure Cosmos DB and Graphs with Scott, exploring why we need graphs, and what we can we do with graphs on Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB offers native graph gremlin API support in addition MongoDB, SQL, and others. Graphs in Azure Cosmos DB also enjoy the same global distribution, low latency, limitless throughput, and 99.99% SLAs as other APIs. For more information, see: Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB: Graph API Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft

Justin Luk joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-based shell experience hosted in the cloud. With Cloud Shell's built-in authentication and pre-installed tools, getting work done on Azure has never been easier. For more information, see: Azure Cloud Shell (docs) Azure Cloud Shell (overview) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @whosjluk

Brendan Burns joins Donovan Brown to discuss the use of Kubernetes with Azure Container Instances. The Azure Container Instances Connector for Kubernetes allows Kubernetes clusters to deploy Azure Container Instances, which enables on-demand and nearly instantaneous container compute, orchestrated by Kubernetes, without having VM infrastructure to manage and while still leveraging the portable Kubernetes API. See also: Azure Container Instances with Sean McKenna on Azure Friday For more information, see: Azure Container Instances (Overview) Azure Container Instances (Documentation) Azure Container Instances (Pricing) Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Azure Blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @BrendanBurns

Sean McKenna joins Donovan Brown to talk about the newest service in Azure, Azure Container Instances. Azure Container Instances makes it possible to run Linux and Windows containers directly on Azure infrastructure, without setting up and managing VMs and without adopting a higher-level service. See how easy it is to create and manage containers with the Azure CLI and the Azure portal, and learn how Azure Container Instances relates to container orchestrators, such as Kubernetes. See also: Using Kubernetes with Azure Container Instances with Brendan Burns on Azure Friday For more information, see: Azure Container Instances (Overview) Azure Container Instances (Docs) Azure Container Instances (Pricing) Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Azure Blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @DonovanBrown Follow @AzureFriday Follow @SeanMcKMSFT