Azure Friday

The march of Pranav continues, this time deep into the Azure WebJobs SDK. You can affect how your Web Jobs run and take full control when you write to the Azure WebJobs SDK. Pranav shows Scott powerful jobs written in C#. Areas covered in this video: Understanding the **ReadFromQueue() function and how it works. Understanding how to do advanced binding. Reviewing an example of plugging in a custom binder. Understanding **BlobInput and blob metadata. Useful topics and links: Using the WebJobs feature of Windows Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 105 - Scaling out Web Jobs Azure WebJobs 106 - The WebJobs Dashboard as a Site Extension Azure WebJobs 107 - Cross Platform WebJobs Azure WebJobs 108 - Notifications from WebJobs

Pranav Rastogi continues to dive into Azure WebJobs, this time showing how notifications can be hooked into a WebJob. Maybe I can get texted when a job runs! Areas covered in this video: Understanding what happens when a triggered job completes. Using Zapier.com to make a phone call when a WebJob completes. Understanding how to gracefully shutdown a WebJob. Useful topics and links: Using the WebJobs feature of Windows Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman www.zapier.com https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/web-jobs Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 105 - Scaling out Web Jobs Azure WebJobs 106 - The WebJobs Dashboard as a Site Extension Azure WebJobs 107 - Cross Platform WebJobs

What other languages can be used to make an Azure WebJob? Can I deploy from the command line? Pranav Rastogi gets advanced and we deploy from DOS (not really). Areas covered in this video: Understanding cross platform command-line support to manage WebJobs Viewing WebJobs for a site using the command-line Viewing the JSON output that the API returns from the command-line Uploading a new WebJob from the command-line Reviewing how you can control WebJobs Useful topics and links: Using the WebJobs feature of Windows Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 105 - Scaling out Web Jobs Azure WebJobs 106 - The WebJobs Dashboard as a Site Extension

Did you know that Azure WebJobs has a management dashboard? Pranav clues us into this powerful tool in your WebJobs arsenal. Areas covered in this video: WebJobs dashboard (preview) Different type of WebJobs that you can create Uploading, accessing, and running WebJobs Viewing WebJob details Understanding a specific WebJob Replaying and testing a WebJob Kudu – Process explorer Useful topics and links: Using the WebJobs feature of Windows Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 105 - Scaling out Web Jobs

Scott talks to Pranav Rastogi in this continuation of the WebJobs series. Here we learn how to scale our web jobs out to multiple instances. Areas covered in this video: How to scale out a deployed web job Review the ReadFromQueue web job Write messages into the queue using a producer Scale the related web site using the dashboard Customize web job behavior Useful topics and links: Use WebJobs to run background tasks in Microsoft Azure Web Sites Getting Started with the Azure WebJobs SDK Introducing Azure WebJobs by Scott Hanselman WebJobsVs on Visual Studio Gallery Related videos: Azure WebJobs 101 - Basic WebJobs with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 102 - Scheduled WebJobs and the WebJobs Dashboard with Jamie Espinosa Azure WebJobs 103 - Programming WebJobs in .NET with Pranav Rastogi Azure WebJobs 104 - Hosting and testing WebJobs in .NET with the WebJobs SDK with Pranav Rastogi

Scott talks to Lori Woehler who explains Privacy and privacy concerns as it relates to Microsoft Azure. Is my data private? How private? Areas covered in this video: Understanding data privacy in Azure Choosing where data will be stored Understanding issues surrounding the control of data Understanding Azure's support of data privacy Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Trust Center

Scott talks to Lori Woehler who explains what it means to be compliant. Can we use Azure in Healthcare systems? To take Credit Cards? In your country of choice? Areas covered in this video: - Supporting your requirements to be secure and to operate in an environment that meets regulatory and industry good practices - Understanding globally recognized standards and regulations - Understanding what security concerns Azure handles for you and what you must handle to be compliant Useful topics and links: Microsoft Azure Trust Center

Scott learns how to service video from Azure dynamically to any mobile device! Mingfei Yan from the Media Services team has the hookup. Areas covered in this video: Access Azure Media Services programmatically Import the Azure Media Services .NET SDK using NuGet Create and run an Azure Media Services console application Show the resulting video example on different devices Useful topics and links: Tutorial - Get started with Media Services DASH player Azure Media Services Tutorials and Resources Azure Media Services .NET SDK Azure Media Services REST API Reference

Mingfei Yan from the Azure Media Services team shows Scott how easy it is to get video into Azure at scale, then view from any device. Areas covered in this video: Azure Media Services portal Creating a Media Service Reviewing media content in Azure Available Azure Media Encoding (Portal and APIs) Publishing Media On-Demand Streaming Useful topics and links: Tutorial - Get started with Media Services Azure Media Services Tutorials and Resources Azure Media Services .NET SDK Azure Media Services REST API Reference

Going beyond the basics, Scott hears from Ashwin Palekar about how to lock down an Azure installation with multiple layers of firewalls and many layers of defense. Areas covered in this video: Layers of Firewalls – Defense in depth Cloud Access Layer – Input Endpoints, Inbound IP ACLs Guest OS Firewall – Inbound/Outbound IP ACLs 3rd party Proxy Firewall Appliance – Inbound/Outbound IP ACLs (and more) Useful topics and links: Azure Security Guidance Azure Network Security Whitepaper Setting up Virtual Private Networks in Azure (video)