In this special All-UK episode, Russell Young has an in-depth discussion with Christos Matskas, a Senior Azure PFE in the UK, about the growing popularity of serverless computing in Azure using services like Functions and Event Grid. Social Media: https://cmatskas.com  https://twitter.com/christosmatskas Resources on Azure bits: - Architecture best practices: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-best-practices - Function Proxies: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-proxies - Functions Runtime: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-runtime-overview - Durable Functions: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/durable-functions-overview - Functions & Containers: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2017/11/15/functions-on-linux-preview/ DDDScotland: http://dddscotland.org   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode207.mp3 Indexed audio: https://www.videoindexer.ai/media/5bd125a054/ Other updates:   Enabling Storage Service Encryption at rest for all new data coming to Azure Backup from on-premises and in cloud   In DevTest Labs, you can post announcements to notify users about recent changes or additions to your lab, and custom images with licensing terms are now enabled   Azure Migrate service launched in preview https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/launching-preview-of-azure-migrate/   Provides guidance, insights and mechanisms to help you migrate to Azure (IaaS)   Readiness of an azure VM Right sizing of VMs Cost PLUS - Enables ASR and Database Migration Service (SQL). Free of charge, supported for production environments.   Azure Advisor - new dashboard and some new functionality (best practices advisor) gives recommendations on high availability, security, performance and cost across your subscription   Elastic DB tools for Java (support for cross shard query, aimed at multi-tenant SaaS apps), routing of data to correct shards based on keys and shard map management.   Location Based Services public preview - geospatial services for mapping, iot, logistics, asset tracking type solutions.  Services include mapping, routing, search, time zones and traffic (partnering with TomTom).  RESTful service APIs plus a javascript mapping control - cost all managed to your subscription   Able to run Azure CLI within VS Code now directly   Azure functions runtime preview 2 - functions as a service on-prem if you want, and on Windows Nano containers.   B and M series now GA - lowest cost by giving flexible vCPU - good for small web servers, small db's, dev/test environments that have spikey workloads/util.  Build up credits when cpu usage is low, to be spent when you spike.  M Series are the largest VMs, up to 128 vCPUs, 4TB RAM, hyper-threading.   Great for SAP HANA and SQL Hekaton   Iot Hub device provisioning now GA Sunset of classic portal, Jan 8th 2018