Azure Friday

Scott talks to Dan Rosanova about Azure Service Bus Event Hubs in this 101-level introduction. High level architecture and telemetry ingress are discussed and demonstrated in the context of cloud scale applications.

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps! You can scale out easily and tune indices just the way your users want it. Liam explains how the REST API for Azure Search works and how easy it is to plug into an app. You could have blazingly fast search on your site or in your app in no time. Scott and Liam integrate Azure Search in a web site easily in this short video. Azure Search Marketing Page Azure Search Doc Page Azure Blog Announcement

Scott talks to Azure Search Program Manager Liam Cavanagh. Azure offers Search-as-a-service for web and mobile apps. In this video, Scott and Liam build on the Trail Application from the Azure Search 101 video and add a Bing Map turning their Spatial Data into a great Geographic web app! Azure Search Marketing Page Azure Search Doc Page Azure Blog Announcement

Scott talks to Rahul Bagaria from the Application Insights team. We'll cause some real errors in an Azure Website and then root-cause the issues by instrumenting the production site with Application Insights!

Open Source lover Cory Fowler teaches Scott how to use Vagrant to create and set up virtual machines on Microsoft Azure.

Scott talks to Daria Grigoriu about new support for Role Based Access Control (RBAC) in Azure Websites. We'll see how you can set up separate roles and credentials and do Git deployments without giving away the keys to the whole city!

Scott and Amir continue digging into Power BI and the powerful Power BI Dashboard to explore huge amounts of data with an ease and flexibility.

Scott's brain explodes as Amir Netz introduces him to the new Power BI. Think BI is hard and perhaps Power BI isn't for you? Just watch.

Scott talks to Azure Websites Software Engineer Elliot Hamai about the new Deploy to Azure button. It's magic, truly. You can just put a link on your GitHub repository that points to the Azure Deploy button and Azure will automatically create a websites and deploy the site directly from your Git Repository! This is a great way to enable your users to quickly deploy your open source project directly from your project's repository! Check out the details at this Blog Post on the Azure Websites Deploy to Azure Button.

Scott talks with Senior Program Manager Kundana Palagiri about Linux Virtual Machine Management. She teaches Scott how to have Azure automatically run shell scripts on Azure VMs as they provision without having to manually SSH into each machine. She also covers Chef and Puppet and how Azure supports both now!