Azure Friday

In this episode of Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman is joined by Brendan Burns (Partner Architect, at Microsoft & Kubernetes co-founder) to talk about containers and support for Kubernetes orchestration in Azure Container Services. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. As Brendan wrote in his blog post on Kubernetes.io, Bringing Kubernetes Support to Azure Container Service, "The integration of Kubernetes into ACS means that with a few clicks in the Azure portal, or by running a single command in the new python-based Azure command line tool, you will be able to create a fully functional Kubernetes cluster that is integrated with the rest of your Azure resources."

In this episode of Azure Friday, Kirill Gavrylyuk talks with Scott Hanselman about the Azure NoSQL database-as-a-service, DocumentDB, and its support for the MongoDB API. Kirill shows how MongoDB developers can upgrade their apps to use DocumentDB without any code changes while continuing to use their favorite MongoDB tools.

Christian Wade stops by Azure Friday to speak with Scott about Azure Analysis Services. Built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade BI semantic modeling capabilities with the scale, flexibility and management benefits of the cloud. Azure Analysis Services helps you transform complex data into actionable insights. And by leveraging the skills, tools and data your team has today, you can get more from the investments you’ve already made. Explore Azure Analysis Services User voice for Azure Analysis Services Community forum for Azure Analysis Services

Raghav Mohan stops by to announce the addition of Apache Kafka to the HDInsight family. Azure HDInsight is a managed cloud Hadoop and Spark service built for the enterprise. This is an exciting addition as it enables enterprises to build scalable, real-time streaming pipelines on the HDInsight platform within minutes and with just a few clicks. Editing note: Tweet stream blurred for your protection. :|

DocumentDB collections are logical resources that can span multiple partitions to provide practically limitless scale. In this episode of Azure Friday, Shireesh Thota talks with Scott Hanselman about scaling DocumentDB with a partitioning collection and how best to choose your partition keys to optimize for read and write workloads. Partition management is fully managed by Azure DocumentDB and it is completely transparent to your application, so you do not have to write complex code or manage your partitions.

Kevin Lam joins Scott Hanselman to show him the powerful management and tooling capabilities that help you develop and debug logic apps using the Azure Portal, and also from within Visual Studio using a Logic App ARM template.

In this episode of Azure Friday, Vishal Sood gives Scott Hanselman a quick tour of Microsoft Stream, which is built on Microsoft Azure and enables you to upload & share videos across your organization.

Azure Mobile Services is transitioning to Azure App Service. In this Azure Friday, Adrian Hall and Seth Juarez will discuss how to migrate your site and what to expect after you have migrated.

Jon Fancey joins Scott to talk about Azure Logic Apps, iPaaS, and enterprise integration. With the new XML and B2B processing features in Logic Apps, Jon shows how you can quickly create cloud-scale processes for exchanging data securely with trading partners as well as validating and transforming XML data using an Integration Account.

Kirill Gavrylyuk stops by Azure Friday to talk with Scott about the latest updates to Azure DocumentDB, including a free local development with emulator, DocumentDB .NET Core Preview SDK, and other improvements.