Thuru Vijayakumar, a Technology Architect at Tiqri and a Microsoft MVP for Azure. He gives us great advice on using API Management for various scenarios and tips and tricks to avoid common mistakes with the service. He is a hardcore developer and developed using many different languages from GW Basic, FoxPro, Pascal, C, C++, Visual Basic, Action Script, Java, C#, JavaScript, Go and the list grows. He’s authored two books Practical Azure Application Development in 2017 and Practical API Architecture and Development using Azure & AWS.  He also speaks at conference and you can check his blog www.thuru.net/blog. TIQRI Corporation is an international software engineering company using modern engineering and onshore-offshore collaboration practices. TIQRI is a Microsoft gold partner and an ISO27001 certified company for information security. The main development center is located in Colombo, Sri Lanka with offices in Australia, Norway, Singapore Sweden and Vietnam. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode226.mp3   Other updates:   Transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys in Azure SQL Database generally available https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/transparent-data-encryption-with-customer-managed-keys-in-azure-sql-database-generally-available/ Preview: programmatically create Azure enterprise subscriptions using ARM APIs https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/programmatically-create-enterprise-subscriptions-preview/   Azure Marketplace new offers in March 2018 https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-marketplace-new-offers-in-march-2018/  Azure Container Instances now generally available Azure Service Fabric – announcing Reliable Services on Linux and RHEL support Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB: NoSQL data access on Azure Azure DDoS Protection for virtual networks generally available Streamlining GDPR requests with the Azure portal   Post-show links: http://j.mp/ms-apim-whitepaper (Cloud-based API Management: Harnessing the Power of APIs)