Podcasts & Shows

In this first episode, Paris Polyzos talks to Vasilis Aivalis about Search as a Service, hosted on the cloud. We talk about pros and cons of Azure Search, how easy it is to implement it in our applications, about pricing, complexity and features. Finally, we discuss on how […]

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how you can generate an isochrone using Azure Maps. Isochrones represent the reachable range from a given point using a set of constraints such as fuel, energy or time. These polygons can be combined with a number of features to do things like search for gas stations within a given range or find restaurants within 15 minutes given current traffic conditions.For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps (blog)Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsAzure Maps pricingAzure Maps Functional API reference docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Azur […]

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to get the ISO country code for a provided IP address. Use this information to tailor your application to your customers' needs based on geographic location.For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps (blog)Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsAzure Maps pricingAzure Maps Functional API reference docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Azur […]

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch geocoding calls using Azure Maps as well as how to get the polygon for a administrative area on a map. Batch geocoding enables a developer to pass up to 10k geocoding or reverse geocoding calls in a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. The polygon feature enables developers to get the boundaries for things like cities, states and postal codes and use these for doing geometry searches or creating geofences.For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps (blog)Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsAzure Maps pricingAzure Maps Functional API reference docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Azur […]

Julie Kohler joins Scott Hanselman and shows you how to execute batch routing calls using Azure Maps as well as how to do matrix routing with a given set of origins and destinations. Batch geocoding enables developers to pass up to 1,000 routing queries with a single call while Azure Maps handles the processing in the background. For matrix routing, a developer can pass in a series of origins and destinations and get back the travel times and distances to make important decisions for their route planning for the day.For more information, see:Route Matrix, isochrones, IP lookup, and more added to Azure Maps (blog)Azure Maps overviewAzure Maps docsAzure Maps pricingAzure Maps Functional API reference docsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @Azur […]

Christian Wade joins Scott Hanselman to show you how to unlock petabyte-scale datasets in Azure with a way that was not previously possible. Learn how to use the aggregations feature in Power BI to enable interactive analysis over big data.For more information:Power BI Desktop September 2018 Feature Summary (Analytics)Aggregations in Power BI Desktop (Preview) docsMicrosoft Power BI - Interactive Data Visualization BI ToolsCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @_christianWad […]

In this episode we talk to Yatharth Gupta, Principal Program Manager for Azure Databricks, about the newly introduced integration with R Studio.For data scientists looking at scaling out R-based computing to big data, Azure Databricks provides the best way scale out their R models with Spark, that […]

Azure Data Factory went into General Availability with new features, alongside a cool new UI, giving users the ability to orchestrate and monitor pipelines in intuitive ways. What's even more interesting is the ability to now leverage Azure Databricks as its compute for Spark jobs. Watch this video […]

In this episode, we chat with Katherine Kampf, PM on Azure Big Data team, about the newly introduced ML Services in Azure HDInsight.ML Services includes highly scalable, distributed set of algorithms such as RevoscaleR, revoscalepy, and microsoftML that can work on data sizes […]

This week's episode of Data Exposed welcomes Abhi Abhishek to the show! Abhi is a Software Engineer in the SQL Server engineering group focusing on SQL Tools. Today he is in the studio to talk about mssql-cli, a new open source and cross-platform command line tool for SQL Server, Azure SQL […]

Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. Use the most popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, LLAP, Kafka, Storm, R & more. Azure HDInsight enables a broad range of scenarios such as […]

In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Kirill Gavrylyuk, a Principal Engineer working on Cosmos DB. Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model data service, and Kirill takes us through the key new concepts of the service and a […]

In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Bahram Banisadr, Program Manager focusing on Event Grid.  Event Grid is a new service which enables developers to build event based programming.  Events could be anything within Azure such as a blob being […]

In this episode Chris Risner and Noel Bundick are joined by Sean McKenna, Product Manager in the Azure Compute Team focused on Azure Container Instances.  Azure Container Instances is a new service from Azure which makes it very easy to spin up containers in the Azure cloud. […]

Corey Sanders, Corporate VP - Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Will Gries, Senior PM on the Azure Storage team to talk about Azure File Sync!Post any questions, topic ideas or general conversation here in the comments OR online on via Twitter with #AzureTwCFollow @CoreySandersWAFollow […]

Corey Sanders, Corporate VP - Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Dan Rosanova, Principal PM responsible for Azure messaging services. Dan shares some new functionality around Event Hubs with Kafka compatibility.Post any questions, topic ideas or general conversation here in the comments OR […]

Corey Sanders, Corporate VP - Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Sujay Talasila, Senior PM Manager on the Azure Compute Team to talk about new changes to Azure Site Recovery.Post any questions, topic ideas or general conversation here in the comments OR online on via Twitter with […]

Corey Sanders, Corporate VP - Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Abhishek Hemrajani, Principal PM Manager on the Azure Compute Team to talk about Azure Migrate utility.Post any questions, topic ideas or general conversation here in the comments OR online on via Twitter with #AzureTwCFollow […]

Corey Sanders, Corporate VP - Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Madhan Ramakrishnan, Partner PM Manager on the Azure Compute Team to talk about ACI (now GA - Azure Container Instances).Post any questions, topic ideas or general conversation here in the comments OR online on via Twitter […]