Azure Friday

Andrew Liu joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure DocumentDB's language integrated, transactional execution of JavaScript, which enables developers write stored procedures, triggers and user defined functions (UDFs) natively in JavaScript. Andrew also shares best practices for writing these stored procedures.

Adrian Hall joins Scott Hanselman to explain the new features and demo push notifications in Azure App Service, which is a secure way to use Azure Mobile Apps to integrate mobile apps with Azure Notification Hubs to receive push notifications.

Arif Kureshy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to extend the Common Data Service (CDS) base schema for custom scenarios. CDS ships with over 65 standard entity sets that you can use to build apps for many common scenarios.

Manbeen Kohli joins Scott Hanselman to explain and demo Azure Advisor, your personalized cloud consultant that guides you to optimal resource configurations. It delivers best practices recommendations to improve the high availability, security and performance of your resources, while looking for opportunities to optimize your overall Azure spend. Get started with Advisor today by visiting https://aka.ms/azureadvisor. Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday

Arif Kureshy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to use the Common Data Service (CDS) with PowerApps & Microsoft Flow. The Common Data Service is fully integrated with Microsoft Flow. An update to the Common Data Service can trigger workflows built with Microsoft Flow, and you can use the Common Data Service as a place to store data for Microsoft Flow workflows.

In this episode of Azure Friday, Steve Lindsay – Senior Technical Evangelist for the Azure Developer Experience team, talks with Scott Hanselman and shares the techniques and tools he uses to interface with DocumentDB through REST. Steve makes available his example REST clients written in Postman(js), C#, nodes.js, Native Swift and Java. Using his example code you can learn how to navigate the DocumentDB authentication headers and create a DocumentDB REST client for your favorite language. You'll find links to all his example code and clients here: https://aka.ms/microsoftte-restdocdb

In this episode of Azure Friday, Aaron Roney joins Scott Hanselman to demo and discuss Azure CLI 2.0, Azure's new command-line experience for managing Azure resources. It can be used on macOS, Linux, and Windows. Azure CLI 2.0 is optimized for managing and administering Azure resources from the command line, and for building automation scripts that work against the Azure Resource Manager.

In this episode of Azure Friday, Aravind Ramachandran talks with Scott Hanselman about support for aggregate functions at global scale in Azure DocumentDB. Aravind explains how you can perform low latency aggregation queries against large datasets without schema definitions or secondary indexes, and other improvements in the DocumentDB query engine like reduced request units and support for polygon indexing. For more information, see: SQL query and SQL syntax in DocumentDB - Aggregate Functions.

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, shows Donovan Brown how to continuously deploy containers using the Azure Spinnaker to Kubernetes QuickStart Template (https://aka.ms/azk8sdeploy).

Arun Chandrasekhar, Program Manager for Azure DevOps OSS, stops by Azure Friday to talk with Donovan Brown about Spinnaker, a continuous delivery platform from Netflix OSS. Arun shows how using Azure QuickStart template (https://aka.ms/azspinnaker) makes this quick and easy.