The Azure Podcast

Cynthia, Evan and Sujit discuss some recent work with various Azure services that are noteworthy and interesting.

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/VqrntUY1FXQ

Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable information about the state of the platform.

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ousa2qWQEiQ

Resources:

Blogs

Advancing Azure Service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps

Advancing failure prediction and mitigation – introducing Narya

Advancing safe deployment with AIOps – introducing Gandalf

Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps – introducing AiDic...

Elizabeth Graham, a Senior Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering group at Microsoft, talks to Evan and Sujit about the various options we have for integrating external systems with Azure. She talks about how messages, files and other input forms can be ingested and processed with some of the services available in Azure.

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/NekugFAh2x8

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/integration/integration-start-here

Data Mapper

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-service-fabric-91-third-refresh-release-2/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-crossregion-service-endpoints-for-azure-storage/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azurefilessmblinuxad/

The team talks to Ayush Agarwal, Davide Mauri, and Sean Leonard to learn about how the open-source Data API Builder can be used to quickly and easily create CRUD APIs on top of multiple database platforms in Azure for use in many types of applications and languages.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode457.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/pgvMa3tFg7s

Resources:

https://aka.ms/dab

Other updates:

Public Preview: In-place scaling for enterprise caches | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Hotpatch now available for Windows Server VMs on Azure with desktop experience | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-126-support-in-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-aks-service-mesh-addon-for-istio/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-long-term-support-version-in-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/app-service-environment-v1-v2-retirement/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/unleash-the-power-of-apis-strategies-for-innovation/

Technical Program Manager in the Azure Commerce team, Obinna Nwokolo explains exactly what the new Azure Savings Plan is all about and how you can easily take advantage of it via the Portal experience. He digs into the various options for cutting costs in Azure and when the Savings Plan makes sense for you.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode486.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Qwt728PUz0U

Resources:

• SP product page - Azure Savings Plan for Compute | Microsoft Azure
• SP Recommendations 101 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HV9GT9kX6A&list=PLlrxD0HtieHjd-zn7u09YoGJY18ZrN1Hq&index=2&t=15s&pp=iAQB
• SP Benefit application 101 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZOyh1rl3kU&list=PLlrxD0HtieHjd-zn7u09YoGJY18ZrN1Hq&index=3&t=2s&pp=iAQB

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generalavailabilityofazuremonitormetricsdataplaneapi/