Azure Friday

Join Scott Hanselman and James Codella to learn how you can turn your natural language questions about your data into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries to find the right data to power your applications more easily. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:55 - Copilot for Azure in Cosmos DB 02:40 - Demo 08:30 - Discussion 10:20 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Microsoft Copilot for Azure enables natural language queries for Azure Cosmos DB data Generate NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure in Cosmos DB Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Copilot for Azure in Cosmos DB Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman James Codella | Twitter/X: @JamesCodella Azure Cosmos DB | Twitter/X: @AzureCosmosDB Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Steve Buchanan and Rajat Shrivastava join Scott Hanselman to explore the functionality of Azure Kubernetes Service backup in safeguarding containerized apps and their data. Learn the importance of backing up your containers, even when they are mostly stateless. See why safeguarding containers is crucial and provides insights into the workings of AKS backup in ensuring the protection of workloads running on AKS. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:30 - Why AKS backup? 05:26 - Demo: Creating backups 16:10 - Demo: Restoring backups 22:35 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Backup for AKS: Cloud native, Enterprise ready, Kubernetes aware backup What is Azure Kubernetes Service backup? Cluster extensions Prerequisites for Azure Kubernetes Service backup using Azure Backup Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Steve Buchanan | Twitter/X: @BuchaTech Rajat Shrivastava | Twitter/X: @rajat-shrivastava Azure Backup | Twitter/X: @AzureBackup The AKS Community | Twitter/X: @theakscommunity Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Scott Hanselman and Mahip Deora explore the Azure cross-region Load Balancer, a global OSI Model Layer 4 load balancing solution. Now you can distribute traffic across multiple regions with ultra-low latency and high performance. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Load balancing options 03:24 - Request routing 06:55 - Global load balancing 15:34 - Demo in the Azure portal 19:17 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Cross-region Load Balancer Global distribution solutions with Microsoft Azure Tutorial: Create a cross-region load balancer Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Networking | Twitter/X: @AzNetEng Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Join Scott Hanselman, Kirill Gavrylyuk, and James Codella to learn about Azure Cosmos DB's built-in vector search capabilities, how customers are using it in their AI apps, and how you can easily get started today. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:05 - Overview with Kirill Gavrylyuk 06:46 - Real world example: Asos 09:12 - Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) 11:57 - Demo setup with James Codella 15:00 - Deploy to Azure 16:53 - Azure OpenAI Studio 26:19 - Graduating from the Chat Playground 29:13 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Vector database - Azure Cosmos DB Azure OpenAI On Your Data Azure / Vector-Search-AI-Assistant-MongoDBvCore Try Azure Cosmos DB for free Introducing the General Availability of Vector Search in Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore! Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Cosmos DB | Twitter/X: @AzureCosmosDB Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Join Stefan Wernli and Scott Hanselman as they unveil the full capabilities of the Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0. This latest update revolutionizes quantum coding with a Rust-based core, ensuring speed, portability, and direct browser accessibility. Dive into the Azure Quantum portal, now enhanced with Copilot guidance, and transition seamlessly to web-based VS Code. Here, you can craft quantum algorithms, simulate, and refine your Q# creations, dispatch them to quantum processors, and leverage the Azure Quantum Resource Estimator to gauge the scalability of your quantum solutions. Start your quantum journey today, from novice exploration to expert innovation. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:56 - Getting started 07:20 - Continue coding in vscode.dev 11:40 - Debugging quantum code 16:22 - Running code on a quantum machine 21:12 - Resource estimation 26:11 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Quantum What's New in the Modern QDK Exploring space-time tradeoffs with Azure Quantum Resource Estimator GitHub - microsoft/qsharp Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Try Azure Cosmos DB for free Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Khelan Modi joins Scott Hanselman to explore the features of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, highlighting enhanced compatibility, seamless Azure integration, and flat pricing. The vCore-based architecture streamlines MongoDB workloads, offering real-time AI capabilities, an optimized structure for rich queries, and support for distributed transactions. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - Demo in the Azure portal 06:50 - Khelan's blog post 08:08 - Documentation 08:27 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Introducing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore: Now Generally Available! Quickstart: Create an Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore cluster by using the Azure portal What is Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore? What is RU-based and vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB? Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Try Azure Cosmos DB for free Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Khelan Modi | LinkedIn: /in/khelan-modi/ Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure

Azure Container Storage offers highly scalable, cost-efficient, and performant storage, built natively for containers. Azure Container Storage simplifies management, deployment, and orchestration of storage volumes seamlessly across volume types including Azure Disk Storage, Azure Elastic SAN, and ephemeral disks. Vybava Ramadoss joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can scale up to multiple users in real time on JupyterHub with Azure Kubernetes Service and Azure Container Storage. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:23 - Why Azure Container Storage? 04:10 - Inside Azure Container Storage 06:15 - Demo setup 07:45 - Demo 16:10 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Azure Container Storage? Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview Quickstart: Use Azure Container Storage Preview with Azure Kubernetes Service Public preview: Azure Container Storage Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure Contact the team

Socket.IO is a library for building low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server. Now you can build real-time apps with Azure Web PubSub for Socket.IO and say goodbye to using adapters. Kevin Guo and Chenyang Liu are here to show Scott Hanselman how it works, today on Azure Friday. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - What is Socket.IO? 02:19 - What pain point does this eliminate? 06:00 - Azure Trivia Game example app 13:05 - Scott peels back the cover 15:32 - Simple code change to implement 16:49 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Socket.IO on Azure blog post Overview Socket.IO on Azure Quickstart: Incorporate Web PubSub for Socket.IO in your app Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Katherine Lu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new capabilities of Elastic SAN, a new storage offering that offers a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance, and comprehensive storage solution for a range of compute options. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:41 - What is Azure Elastic SAN? 03:05 - Azure Elastic SAN capabilities 05:15 - Azure Elastic SAN demo 12:23 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Elastic SAN What is Azure Elastic SAN? Deploy an Elastic SAN Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Tom Kerkhove joins Scott Hanselman for a hands-on experience to demonstrate how enterprises can make the transition to API-first architectures and microservices in a hybrid, multicloud world with the self-hosted gateway in Azure API Management. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Concepts 06:38 - Demo setup 10:46 - Demo self-hosted gateway 23:09 - Wrap-up Recommended resources API gateway in Azure API Management Self-hosted gateway overview Guidance for running self-hosted gateway on Kubernetes in production Azure / api-management-self-hosted-gateway Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Tom Kerkhove | Twitter: @TomKerkhove Azure API Management | Twitter: @AzureApiMgmt Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Harold Campos joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Logic Apps to build native integration solutions for mainframes and midranges, including IBM DB2, Host Files, CICS, IMS, MQ, 3270 systems, and many more. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of mainframes and midranges 03:21 - Mainframe modernization 04:28 - Azure Logic Apps for legacy modernization 07:24 - Demo: Azure Logic Apps workflow and mainframe connectors 15:13 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is Azure Logic Apps? What is HIS (Host Integration Server) Azure Integration Services Blog Azure Logic Apps: Cloud Native Capabilities to Integrate with Mainframe and Midranges Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Harold Campos | Twitter: @hcamposu Azure Logic Apps | Twitter: @logicappsio Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Ben Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to walk through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights, which is a native monitoring solution that gives you visibility into connection characteristics and optimization opportunities for your AVD environment. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Macro and micro analysis 01:33 - Overview tab 03:33 - Connection Diagnostics tab 04:44 - Connection Performance tab 05:37 - Utilization tab 12:20 - Clients tab 14:57 - Configuring AVD Insights 16:30 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Use Azure Virtual Desktop Insights to monitor your deployment Estimate Azure Virtual Desktop monitoring costs Autoscale scaling plans and example scenarios in Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Virtual Desktop Insights glossary Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Liam Cavanagh joins Scott Hanselman to explain vector search in Azure Cognitive Search. Vector search is a method of searching for information within various data types, including image, audio, text, video, and more. It determines search results based on the similarity of numerical representations of data, called vector embeddings. Unlike keyword matching, vector search compares the vector representation of the query and content to find relevant results for users. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:55 - What vectors are 06:37 - How vector search works 12:06 - Vector search discussion 17:26 - Hybrid search 19:23 - Multi-modal: text and images 20:24 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Announcing Vector Search in Azure Cognitive Search Public Preview Azure Cognitive Search Vector search within Azure Cognitive Search Azure Cognitive Search AMA: Vector search, Azure OpenAI Service, generative apps, plugins & more Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Liam Cavanagh | Twitter: @liamca Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Olivia Al Joundi and Sudhanva Huruli join Scott Hanselman to discuss the recently announced Azure Linux for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Linux is Microsoft's Linux distribution and is Generally Available for use as an OS option in AKS. It provides added security, performance, and quality benefits for your Linux based Kubernetes workloads. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Why Azure Linux? 02:11 - Demo - az aks create 04:53 - Demo - kubectl debug 07:00 - Demo - add a new Azure Linux node pool to an existing cluster 12:48 - The Azure Linux difference 13:57 - Wrap-up Recommended resources What is the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS? Introducing the Azure Linux container host for AKS Core concepts for the Azure Linux Container Host for AKS Azure Linux: A container host OS for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Q&A Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Sudhanva Huruli | Twitter: @HuruliS Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Rong Zhang and Tatsat Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the latest updates for the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated developer experience with Azure Kubernetes Services. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Overview with Rong 02:30 - Demo with Tats 11:22 - Content to get started 12:45 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Extension for Visual Studio Code Visual Studio Code AKS Tools docs Visual Studio Code AKS Tools installation Visual Studio Code AKS Tools features Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Related episodes Watch the previous episode Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Rong Zhang | Twitter: @RongZhang817 Tatsat Mishra | Twitter: @Tats_innit Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Sean Noyes, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect from Redis, joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the latest advancements in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise. Developers can enhance their applications with efficient index searching and global backups for cached data, all while reducing costs. Learn more about these new capabilities, including Active-Active, Persistence & CMK, Reserved Pricing, and RedisJSON. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Quick tour of what's new 06:22 - Scale and cache types 09:46 - Discussion of all things Redis 15:58 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Cache for Redis Use Redis modules with Azure Cache for Redis Azure Cache for Redis Documentation Azure Cache for Redis pricing Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Parikshit Savjani joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the evolution of Azure Database for MySQL, an open-source MySQL database on Azure. The conversation focuses on the journey from the Single Server deployment model to the new and improved Flexible Server offering, which represents a fully managed MySQL database-as-a-service (PaaS or DBaaS) running on Azure. Learn all about Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server, including its top features related to performance, security, and high-availability, its simplified migration experience, and how easy and cost-effective it is to get started. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:16 - Demo: Azure Database for MySQL in the Azure portal 06:02 - Demo: Failover experience 09:08 - Planned failover 10:16 - Backup and restore 11:00 - Migrating to flexible server 13:56 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure Database for MySQL Azure Database for MySQL documentation Create your first Azure Database for MySQL flexible server Azure Database for MySQL Resources Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Parikshit Savjani | Twitter: @talktosavjani Azure Database for MySQL | Twitter: @AzureDBMySQL Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure Azure Database for MySQL | YouTube: @AzureDBMySQL

Davide Mauri and Thomas Gauvin join Scott Hanselman to show how building a full-stack or JAMstack solution has never been so easy. Using Azure Static Web apps and the newly released Data API builder (also available as an open-source project), you can add REST and GraphQL APIs to your database in a minute, including pagination, sorting, filtering, authentication, and authorization. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:49 - Static Web Apps and database connections 01:37 - Connecting to a database with Azure Static Web Apps 09:54 - Data API builder open-source project 15:02 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Connecting to a database with Azure Static Web Apps (preview) Quickstart: Use Data API builder with Azure Databases Azure/data-api-builder Database connection configuration in Azure Static Web Apps (preview) Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Davide Mauri | Twitter: @MauriDB Thomas Gauvin | Twitter: @ThomasGauvin Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Simplify your Kubernetes development process with automated deployments for AKS powered by Draft. With just a few clicks, automated deployments take care of the tedious work of containerization so that you can focus on bringing your app to life. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, automated deployments make it easy to run your app on AKS. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:44 - Automated deployments workflow 04:30 - Demo of automated deployments 11:36 - Discussion 12:00 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Automated Deployments for Azure Kubernetes Service (Preview) Draft for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (preview) Azure/draft repo on GitHub Draft: Containerize apps for Azure Kubernetes Service AzureTalks Podcast #004 Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Steve Buchanan | Twitter: @BuchaTech Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter: @Azure

Rory Preddy joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate how to develop Java applications on Azure using a variety of tools and services. He shows how to use Visual Studio Code (VS Code), to write and debug Java code. He shows how to use GitHub Codespaces, a cloud-based development environment, to write and test your code directly in the browser. Finally, he also demonstrates how to use Azure Container Apps, a service that enables you to deploy and manage containerized applications more easily to run your Java applications in the cloud. It's an exciting episode that highlights the power and flexibility of developing Java applications on Azure. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:58 - Write and debug Java code in VS Code 06:45 - Use GitHub Codespaces to write and test your Java code in the browser 13:00 - Use Azure Container Apps to deploy and manage containerized Java applications 15:18 - Wrap-up Recommended resources Azure is the home for your Java applications, Part 1 Java on Azure Azure is the home for your enterprise Java applications Microsoft build of OpenJDK Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter: @SHanselman Rory Preddy | Twitter: @RoryPreddy Azure Friday | Twitter: @AzureFriday Java at Microsoft | Twitter: @JavaAtMicrosoft Azure | Twitter: @Azure