We have a bit of a geek-out with one of our listeners, Mattias Karlsson, about a topic that he's very passionate about - Kudu. He tells us why this is an indispensable tool when it comes to Azure App service and can also be used on-premises! Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode147.mp3 Twitter is the best option to find Mattias                 https://twitter.com/devlead And the company he's a partner and sr. architect at is WCOM and is found here:                 http://www.wcom.se Kudu is found here on GitHub:                 https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu Other updates: • General Purpose Instances: Prices of our Dv2 series VMs will be reduced by up to 15%. We are also lowering prices of our A1 and A2 Basic VMs by up to 50%. • Compute Optimized Instances: Prices of our F series will be reduced up to 11%. • Av2 series: In November 2016, we will introduce new A series virtual machines (Av2), with prices up to 36% lower than the A series Standard VM prices available today. From OMS TECH Fridays - Fall 2016 season https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/oms-tech-friday-skype-sessions-2/ Azure DocumentDB SDK updates include Python 3 support https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-documentdb-sdk-updates-include-python-3-support/ Azure IoT loves Open Source https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-loves-open-source/ Real-Time Feature Engineering for Machine Learning with DocumentDB https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/real-time-feature-engineering-for-machine-learning-with-documentdb/ Microsoft Cloud coming to France https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cloud-coming-to-france/ Required practice for applications integrating with Azure Active Directory https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/required-practice-for-applications-integrating-with-azure-active-directory/