Azure Friday

Scott digs into the advanced details of Azure API Management with Josh Twist. What kinds of transformations can be applied to your public-facing API? What policies can be set? When establishing billing for your API, what kinds of granular statistics and charts can be created? When you're creating a Developer Portal specific to your API, how custom can it be? Azure API Management API Management Pricing Details Getting Started, Tutorials, and Guides

In API Management 101, Scott got an overview from Josh Twist of the new Azure API Management Service. Now, Josh explains how to customize the public facing APIs. He also presents the types of control you have over the API. Azure API Management API Management Pricing Details Getting Started, Tutorials, and Guides

Scott talks to Josh Twist and gets an overview of the new Azure API Management Service. If you've got a Web Service, why would you want API Management? What does it add to public facing web services? Areas covered in this video: Understanding a few reasons to create and distribute an API Learning about how to discover, use, and manage an API Understanding the API proxy is used to help collect useful data. Viewing the publisher portal. Adding and configuring an API in Azure. Trying out the API. Useful topics and links: Azure API Management API Management Pricing Details Getting Started, Tutorials, and Guides

Suwat Bodin educates Scott about Azure Websites Site Extensions. Together they create a simple Site Extension and upload it to http://www.siteextensions.net/. Areas covered in this video: Using Kudu and Site Control Manager Exploring the Process Explorer and Debug Console Looking at the Site Extension Gallery Viewing the File Counter extension Creating a site extension Making the site extension available Useful topics and links: Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing Azure WebSites - Best Practices

Dan Rosanova talks about Azure Service Bus. He explains Topics, Queues and Relays. Then, Dan builds a simple app in Python that talks to Azure Service Bus. Areas covered in this video: Creating a new namespace. Creating and running a new Python application in Visual Studio. Viewing the output message in Azure. Useful topics and links: Azure Service Bus

What are Web Hosting Plans in Azure, and what kinds of advanced functionality do they hold? Scott talks with Yochay and learns how to manipulate hosting plans to best benefit.

Scott learns from Sunitha Muthukrishna the best practices to keep in mind when creating Azure Websites. How should my site architecture change when I move to the cloud? Areas covered in this video: Understanding that outages can happen and you can mitigate risks Key principles to following when designing for the Cloud Considering the end-user experience when something fails Architecture Best Practices Useful topics and links: Azure .NET Dev Center - Architecture and Guidance Related videos: Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing

Azure Websites recently added support for multiple deployment "slots" like Dev, Test, and Staging. Daria Grigoriu shows Scott how this works and we look at scenarios where slots can be useful. Areas covered in this video: Understanding deployment slots and reasons to use them Understanding the support for deployment, configuration, and validation Reviewing an example of using deployment slots Swapping the example website to production, rolling back, and redeploying Useful topics and links: Deployment slots in Azure Websites expanded to 4+1 slots Staged Deployment on Microsoft Azure Web Sites Related videos: Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing

Traffic Manager comes to Azure Websites and Eduardo Laureano is here to tell Scott about how this feature makes Azure WebSites way more powerful. We create and load-balance sites globally! Areas covered in this video: Understanding load-balancing for Websites Supporting existing methods Understanding load-balancing between regions Walking through the traffic manager and endpoints Testing out the example Useful topics and links: Traffic Manager Traffic Manager Overview Traffic Manager Configuration Tasks Related videos: Azure WebSites - Automatic and Easy Backup Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites

Azure Websites gets even more useful with automatic and easy backup/restore, now baked into the platform. Eduardo Laureano schools Scott on this new feature. Areas covered in this video: Understanding what a backup can include Understanding how to setup an automated backup rather than a manual backup Viewing the backup contents Creating a new site and restoring the backup to the new site Useful topics and links: Azure Web Sites Backups Restore a Microsoft Azure web site Related videos: Azure WebSites - Traffic Manager and Global Load Balancing Azure WebSites - Deployment Slots for Staging Sites