Azure Friday

Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This third episode covers how you can change your API's output based on your subscriber level. For example, free product users could get cached data while premium users would get realtime data. You can make these kinds of Policy Expressions and change your API without changing a line of your APIs code!

Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This second episode talks about how JSON Web Tokens work and shows some of the online tools you'll use to express policies and then apply them with a Policy Definition.

Principal Engineer Corom Thompson shares the story behind viral Internet site http://www.how-old.net! How was it made, how does it work, and more importantly, how did it scale when the whole internet showed up at its door?

Scott talks to Vladimir Vinogradsky in this three-part series on Azure API Management Policy Expressions. This first episode covers the basics and explains the architecture of API Management and where policy expressions fit in. You'll see how you can use familiar Razor syntax and how API Management compiles your expressions with the Roslyn compiler.

Scott talks to Khalid Mouss about how you can monitor your Linux machines within an Azure infrastructure. Large numbers of Linux machines run on Azure with great success, so how can you best monitor the CPU and Disk access of your Linux workloads? Khalid also shows how to add support for Datadog by adding their custom agent to a Linux VM.

Senior Program Manager Narayan Annamalai teaches Scott how to use Network Security Groups within an Azure Virtual Network. You can create control access to objects within Azure by subnet and network! You'll learn how to control access and create groups within Azure using PowerShell!

Scott loves IoT devices, and today Santosh Balasubramanian hooks up a Raspberry PI to Azure Stream Analytics. Use a SQL-like language to ask questions of your IoT devices and create dashboards in Power BI.

Scott talks to Santosh Balasubramanian about how to stream data through Azure and perform real-time analysis and scoring using Azure Stream Analytics. We'll also create and share realtime dashboard showing streaming data in Power BI!

Scott talks to Karan Batta about how to use Azure Batch for large scale Rendering Workflows. Karan uses a plugin for Autodesk Maya 2015 that lets you utilize the raw power and scale of Azure to speed up your scene renders using Azure Batch.

Scott talks to Adarsh Solanki about an amazing Azure Media Services feature - Azure Media Indexer! Azure Media Indexer will automatically create standard-format transcript from your audio or video files! You can upload hours of video and have captioning created, then seek, search, and automatically jump to where someone said a word or term! Where did someone say Hololens in a BUILD keynote? Media Indexer has the answer.