Azure Friday

Chris Anderson joins Seth and explores how Azure Functions integrate with larger applications.

Donovan Brown joins the Azure Friday team and speaks with Bryon Tardif about the new App Service Companion! App in Google Play Announcement Blog Support Forums on MSDN and Stack Overflow. Feature Requests User Voice Byron on Twitter

Chris Anderson with Azure functions and getting started. No more scaling.

Azure introduces a new UX for Azure WebJobs with Seth and Chris.

Azure Redis Cache adds new administration options which allows you to test your application for connection resiliency in case of a failure and also schedule updates to Azure Redis Cache. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-administration/

Pranav and Seth go in depth about Redis Cache and improving security.

In this video we will look at some of the best practices on how should you pick the right Redis Cache offering for your use case. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-faq/

Redis clustering gives you maximum scale and throughput. Azure Redis Cache offers Redis cluster as implemented in Redis. In Azure, Redis cluster is offered as a primary/replica model where each shard has a primary/replica pair with replication where the replication is managed by Azure Redis Cache service. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-how-to-premium-clustering/ http://redis.io/topics/cluster-tutorial

How to get started with Akamai on Azure CDN, our newest provider, using both the Azure portal and a Powershell script. We explore the features and options in setting up an endpoint, and look at reasons for using multiple CDN providers. The Cedexis site mentioned here.

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