We talk to Jeremy Hollett, a Principal Service Engineering Manager, about the CXP organization and how it helps both Azure internally as well its customers, gain the ultimate in reliability. Evan also works for the same organization so the two of them share some good insights. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode225.mp3   Other updates: We have added Azure Databricks notebook activity in Azure Data Factory. You can now operationalize your Databricks notebooks in Data Factory.   From   Azure Stream Analytics customers can now easily build solutions for scenarios such as connected cars, fleet management, and mobile asset tracking. Developers can use built-in geospatial functions in their stream-processing logic to define geographical areas. Developers can evaluate incoming geospatial data for containment, proximity, and overlap, and then generate alerts or start necessary workflows. These geospatial capabilities are in alignment with the GeoJSON specification. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/native-support-for-geospatial-functions   With Azure Stream Analytics, customers can combine the power of JavaScript with the simplicity and pervasiveness of SQL. Historically, Stream Analytics let developers express their real-time query logic by using a simple SQL-like language. To support more expressive custom code and help customers implement advanced scenarios, Stream Analytics now supports user-defined functions (UDFs) via JavaScript. With this feature, customers can write their custom code in JavaScript, and easily invoke it as part of their real-time stream processing query. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/javascript-udf-in-azure-stream-analytics/ The public preview of Azure Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio includes support for local testing on client machines.   Announcing HTTP/2 support in Azure App Service https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam/2018/04/13/announcing-http2-support-in-azure-app-service Azure Sphere https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-microsoft-azure-sphere-secure-and-power-the-intelligent-edge/ Altair democratizes access to computer-aided engineering with Azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/altair-democratizes-access-to-computer-aided-engineering-with-azure/