Azure Friday

Evgeny Ternovsky joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Log Analytics and its upgraded search platform, including a dedicated query experience and a powerful new query language. Already available in Application Insights, this upgrade unifies the analytics experience across Azure. For more information, see: What is Log Analytics (documentation) Analytics Query Language (documentation) Announcing the New and Improved Azure Log Analytics (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Apurva Joshi (AJ) joins Scott Hanselman to talk about App Service providing built-in image support to ASP.NET Core, Node.js, PHP, and Ruby on Linux, as well as by enabling web developers to bring their own Docker-formatted container images, which in turn supports languages like Java, Python, Go, and more. For more information, see: Web App on Linux Documentation (docs) See what's new for Azure App Service - Web App on Linux (Preview) (blog) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @apurvajo

Mark Scurrell joins Scott Hanselman to talk about low-priority virtual machines (VMs) from Azure Batch, which you can use to reduce the cost of Batch workloads. Low-priority VMs make new types of Batch workloads possible by providing a large amount of compute power that is also economical, taking advantage of surplus capacity in Azure when it's available. When you specify low-priority VMs in your pools, Azure Batch can automatically use this surplus when available. For more information, see: Azure Batch (overview) Compare Batch pricing with low-priority VMs Use low-priority VMs with Batch (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @mscurrell

Kelly Anderson joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Site Recovery can help save the day to keep your applications available in the event of a disaster. For more information, see: Azure Site Recovery (overview) Azure Site Recovery (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Sean McKenna drops by Azure Friday to discuss and demo Cloud Foundry, an open-source cloud application platform following the recent announcement that Microsoft has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Pivotal Cloud Foundry is available in the Azure Marketplace for ease of deployment on Azure. Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @seanmckmsft

Niraj Gandhi joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demonstrate Azure Managed Applications. Managed service providers (MSPs), ISVs, and corporate IT teams can create managed applications to deliver solutions through the Azure Marketplace or the Service Catalog. Because the publisher manages and supports the applications, those who deploy them don't have to develop the additional expertise to maintain, update, or service them. For more information, see: Azure Managed Applications (blog) Azure managed applications overview (docs) Create a Free Account (Azure) Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @helloniraj

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