Azure Friday

Today Amit Bapat introduces Scott to Azure Key Vault. With Azure Key Vault, you can encrypt keys and small secrets like passwords using keys stored in hardware security modules (HSMs). It's cloud-based, hardware-based secret management for Microsoft Azure!

Scott talks to Mark Fussell about Azure Service Fabric and the Actor Programming Model. Mark demystifies the Actor Model and explains how it relates to Service Fabric. Service Fabric offers both low level and high level APIs so you can choose how you want to attack a problem. We also chat about open source projects like Akka.NET

Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. How do apps live, work, and scale beyond just "VMs in the cloud" and "Web Apps in the cloud." In this conceptual talk, Matthew gives no-nonsense, no marketing answers to straight questions.

Scott speaks with Matthew Snider about Azure Service Fabric. The Service Fabric is the system that is underlying Windows Azure itself, and it's now being made available as a programming model for developers to create "Born in the Cloud" applications. Where do Transactions fit in? How can Services scale AND be reliable?

Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a Performance Testing your Azure Web Apps. Is this video we use Visual Studio Enterprise and spin up a sophisticated load test that includes multiple kinds of users (light browsers vs. a serious power user). We use the power of Azure and Visual Studio Online to push massive load than you could from your local machine and we manage it all from within Visual Studio.

Scott talks to Manas Maheshwari from the Azure team about a great new feature that lets you performance test your Azure Web Application directly from the Azure Portal! From the Tools menu of an Azure Web Application, we're able to launch a performance test and ensure that our Staging Site can keep up with a production load. Later we can swap our staging and production and test again! Be sure to check out the second Performance Testing Azure Friday as we perform a more advanced test from within Visual Studio.

After the team's success of how-old.net, Mat Velloso decided to create twinsornot.net just to see how easy it would be! In this episode he shares the code with Scott, and with you on GitHub! You'll see how you can call APIs like the Face API and many others in the Azure Marketplace. We'll also see how the site scales and how easy it was to add analytics as well.

Scott talks to Corom Thompson from Azure Machine Learning. In just minutes Corom adds Machine Learning intelligence to a chat app, adding emoji based on a sentiment analysis of the text!

This week Scott talks to David Justice about the open source tool AutoRest. AutoRest generates client side SDKs in a number of languages using a Web API's (or an Azure API App's) swagger endpoint. Consume from any language and produce from (almost) any language with this powerful open source tool.

Scott talks about the Microsoft Azure CDN Updates for July 2015 with Anton Kucer. Country filtering support, great reporting features, and more this month!