Azure Friday

In this episode, Mani Ramaswamy joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Fabric on Linux, which recently became generally available as a container orchestrator. Many premier first-party services such as Azure SQL Database, Bing, Azure Cosmos DB, and EventHubs are all running on Service Fabric on Windows, and now the same technology is being made available worldwide on Linux. For more information, see: Create Service Fabric clusters on Windows Server or Linux (docs) Announcing the general availability of Service Fabric on Linux (announcement) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Kirill Gavrylyuk shows Scott Hanselman an easy way to build planet-scale serverless apps in minutes using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions. Customers expect apps to offer event-driven, near real-time experiences. Now you can subscribe to changes in Azure Cosmos DB collections and trigger logic in real time while being globally-distributed, and without deploying or managing any servers. For more information, see: Azure Functions Cosmos DB bindings (docs) Azure Cosmos DB Azure Functions Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft

Matthew Henderson does a demo for Scott Hanselman to show how simple it can be to build serverless apps that leverage bindings for Microsoft Graph (e.g., reading data from a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a OneDrive folder) to avoid writing laborious initialization and authentication code, all using Azure Functions. For more information, see: Microsoft Graph Azure Functions Azure Functions HTTP and webhook bindings Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @mattchenderson

Azure Cosmos DB is a globally distributed database with limitless elastic scale. To take advantage of elastic scale, you first need to choose a partition key. Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott Hanselman about the choice of partition key, and how to use the new metrics charts to troubleshoot a poor partition key choice (e.g., "hot partitions"). For more information, see: Try Azure Cosmos DB How to partition and scale in Azure Cosmos DB (docs) Monitor Azure Cosmos DB requests, usage, and storage (docs) Request Units in Azure Cosmos DB (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft

Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how HashiCorp Terraform provides an easy way to define and deploy cloud infrastructure using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). This custom language is easy to write and easy to understand, and Hariharan gives you the steps to start using Terraform with Azure. For more information, see: Install and configure Terraform to provision VMs and other infrastructure into Azure (docs) Terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm (GitHub) Microsoft Azure Provider (Terraform site) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @hariharan_msft

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about being able to get a code-level analysis of slow requests in production using the Application Insights profiler for Azure App Service. Dan shows Scott how to use the Application Insights Profiler to quickly get to the bottom of two different performance issues in an ASP.NET Web App. For more information, see: Application Insights Overview Profiling live Azure web apps with Application Insights (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor

Ziv Rafalovich joins Scott Hanselman to talk about improvements to the planned maintenance experience in Azure, including better visibility and control of maintenance events that impact virtual machine availability. Learn how to create alerts, discover which virtual machines are scheduled for maintenance, and proactively start the maintenance using the Azure portal, REST API, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI. Note: During September 2017, you can try the new experience by creating new VMs in the US West Central region using this special link to the Azure portal: https://aka.ms/PlannedMaintenancePreview. For more information, see: Planned maintenance for Linux virtual machines Planned maintenance for Windows virtual machines in Azure Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Dushyant Gill joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Health. When issues in Azure services affect your business-critical resources, Azure Service Health notifies you and your teams, helps you understand the impacts of the issue, and keeps you updated as the issue is resolved. It also helps you prepare for planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources. [01:34] - Personalizing your view of Azure Service Health [03:32] - Tracking issues and keeping your stakeholders informed [04:48] - Filter Azure Service Health issues [05:30] - Pinning filtered world maps to your dashboard [07:05] - Azure Service Health is more than just up/down status [08:05] - Setting up notifications [10:30] - Integration with PagerDuty For more information, see: Azure Service Health (overview) Azure Service Health (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dushyantgill

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how the Snapshot Debugger in Application Insights can help you identify the root cause of issues in your production environment without having to repro them locally. Dan shows how by adding the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.SnapshotCollector NuGet package to your app, you can get view full-process snapshots containing local variables the moment exceptions are thrown in production. For more information, see: Application Insights Overview Debug snapshots on exceptions (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor

Kirill Gavrylyuk shows Scott Hanselman a new way to try Azure Cosmos DB free of charge, no sign-up or credit card required. It's a perfect way to get to know Azure Cosmos DB better, without commitment. For more information, see: Try Cosmos DB Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @kirillg_msft