Azure Friday

Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement to target specific users and send them notifications! This is a great way to really connect to small slices of users and give them information and notifications that they care about. Notifications are also a powerful way to remind your users about your apps and keep them coming back for more!

Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement. Combine big data collection with real-time processing to trigger engagement scenarios according to app-user behavior and demographics. Azure Mobile Engagement answers nearly any question relevant to your business needs and it includes SDKs for all major platforms - iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone.

Scott talks to Piyush Joshi about how you can use Azure Mobile Engagement and capture information and events about how users user your mobile apps. You can then take this big data collection and process it to better understand WHY users do what they do and come up with specific ways you can improve a user's experience and engage with your audience more deeply.

Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 101.

Scott talks to Bill Staples about Power Apps. Why did we make it and what can you accomplish with Power Apps and Azure App Service?

Visual Studio 2015 now includes remote profiling of your web applications running within Azure App Service! That means you can actually profile a live running application inside Azure. Scott talks to Hamid Safi about this powerful new feature that you can use today!

David Ebbo has created an amazing tool at https://resources.azure.com. You can explore the RESTful APIs that Azure exposes in this rich tree view! A fantastic resource for developers, you can see generated Powershell, Documentation, even POST to a live API from within the browser!

Matthew Henderson shows Scott the open source Field Engineer" sample application that shows how to create Azure Mobile Applications. We'll go through how TableControllers support ASP.NET MVC Applications and Web APIs, and how you can consume data from applications on your mobile device.

Moinak Bandyopadhyay stops by Azure Friday to show that Azure in fact has rich Billing and Rate Card APIs! In fact, the same Azure Resource Manager APIs that the Azure Portal uses can be used by you in your own applications. If you're a small organization or a large one, you can get detailed usage and billing data directly from Azure and keep track of your bills. Tag resources and control usage data with a JSON-based RESTful API.

Jeff Hollan stops by Azure Friday and he's brought a Raspberry Pi. Jeff shows Scott how to turn on his sprinklers using a Raspberry Pi and the automation power of your own Logic App running in Azure App Service.