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 […]

Hariharan Jayaraman joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how HashiCorp Terraform provides an easy way to define and deploy cloud infrastructure using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL). This custom language is easy to write and easy to understand, and Hariharan gives you the steps to start using Terraform with Azure.For more information, see:Install and configure Terraform to provision VMs and other infrastructure into Azure (docs)Terraform-providers/terraform-provider-azurerm (GitHub)Microsoft Azure Provider (Terraform site)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @hariharan_msft […]

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about being able to get a code-level analysis of slow requests in production using the Application Insights profiler for Azure App Service. Dan shows Scott how to use the Application Insights Profiler to quickly get to the bottom of two different performance issues in an ASP.NET Web App.For more information, see:Application Insights OverviewProfiling live Azure web apps with Application Insights (docs)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor […]

Ziv Rafalovich joins Scott Hanselman to talk about improvements to the planned maintenance experience in Azure, including better visibility and control of maintenance events that impact virtual machine availability. Learn how to create alerts, discover which virtual machines are scheduled for maintenance, and proactively start the maintenance using the Azure portal, REST API, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI.Note: During September 2017, you can try the new experience by creating new VMs in the US West Central region using this special link to the Azure portal: http://aka.ms/PlannedMaintenancePreview.For more information, see:Planned maintenance for Linux virtual machinesPlanned maintenance for Windows virtual machines in AzureFollow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday […]

Dushyant Gill joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Service Health. When issues in Azure services affect your business-critical resources, Azure Service Health notifies you and your teams, helps you understand the impacts of the issue, and keeps you updated as the issue is resolved. It also helps you prepare for planned maintenance and changes that could affect the availability of your resources.[01:34] - Personalizing your view of Azure Service Health[03:32] - Tracking issues and keeping your stakeholders informed[04:48] - Filter Azure Service Health issues[05:30] - Pinning filtered world maps to your dashboard[07:05] - Azure Service Health is more than just up/down status[08:05] - Setting up notifications[10:30] - Integration with PagerDutyFor more information, see:Azure Service Health (overview)Azure Service Health (docs)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dushyantg […]

Dan Taylor joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how the Snapshot Debugger in Application Insights can help you identify the root cause of issues in your production environment without having to repro them locally. Dan shows how by adding the Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.SnapshotCollector NuGet package to your app, you can get view full-process snapshots containing local variables the moment exceptions are thrown in production.For more information, see:Application Insights OverviewDebug snapshots on exceptions (docs)Follow @SHanselman Follow @AzureFriday Follow @dandttaylor […]

This week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Ashish Thapliyal to the show. Ashish is a Senior PM on the HDInsight team and is in the studio today to discuss monitoring HDInsight for the enterprise with the Operations Management Suite.Topics in today's video:[00:50]: Fundamental questions of […]

This week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Rebecca Zhang to the show. Rebecca is a PM on the SQL Server team and is in the studio today to discuss encryption at rest with key hierarchy in Azure SQL DB and DW.Topics in today's video:[00:30]: Overview of encrypting data at rest with […]

This week's Data Exposed show welcomes Joe Sack into the Channel 9 studio. Joe is a Principal PM on the SQL Server team, and is in the Channel 9 studios today to show us the awesome Adaptive Query Processor technology, the ability of the database to adapt based on customer characteristics in […]

Bob Ward and Parikshit Savjani (Parik) are in the Data Exposed Channel 9 studio today to talk about and show off the best built-in diagnostics in the industry. It's Bob Ward, so of course we're talking about SQL Server. And in this episode, we're talking about SQL Server 2017.[00:15] - […]

This week's Data Exposed show welcomes Cathy Palmer into the Channel 9 studio to show how to connect an on-premises Hadoop cluster to Azure Data Lake Store in 3 easy steps![01:38] - Azure Data Lake Store at a Glance[04:50] - Find out More...[06:00] - Demo Overview and DEMO! […]

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. […]

In this episode Thiago Almeida and Bill Barnes are joined by Donna Malayeri, a Program Manager in the Azure Functions team. Donna joins us to show local debugging of Azure Functions written in JavaScript and C# Class Libraries as well as other features and news.Links from the […]

In this episode Thiago Almeida is joined by Mark Scurrell, Principal Program Manager in the Azure Compute group focusing on large scale compute workloads. We cover an update on Azure Batch and it's new Low-Priority VMs feature, including demos and customer scenarios.Links […]

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Ziv Rafalovich - a Senior PM on the Azure Compute team. Ziv shows off our new capabilities around notification and scheduling maintenance on your own timeline.Note: During September, […]

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Dan Rosanova, Principal PM responsible for the newly launched Azure Event Grid service that launched 8/16/2017.  Check out:What is Event grid and how do I start up? Try out the […]

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Sean McKenna, Principal PM responsible for the newly launched Azure Container Instances - this time talking about Windows Containers! Check out:QuickStart: Get your First Azure Container […]

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Sean McKenna, Principal PM responsible for the newly launched Azure Container Instances - this time talking about the Kubernetes connector. Check out:QuickStart: Get your First Azure […]

Corey Sanders, Director of Program Management on the Microsoft Azure Compute team sat down with Sean McKenna, Principal PM responsible for the newly launched Azure Container Instances. Check out:QuickStart: Get your First Azure Container Instance up and runningBlog Post: Corey […]