The Azure Podcast
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Cynthia Kreng, Kendall Roden, Cale Teeter, Evan Basalik, Russell Young & Sujit D'Mello work at Microsoft in the cloud and services area. They specialize in building and supporting enterprise apps and services that leverage the cloud. In this podcast together they focused on all things related to azure.
The Azure Podcast
16h ago
Russell and Evan discuss the preview Azure API Center with Julia Kasper, Microsoft's Product Manager.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode490.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/mJnaCqgnPSg
Resources:
Request features/raise issues on API Center functionality: Issues · Azure/api-center-preview (github.com)
Video on API governance with APIC: Mastering API Governance with Azure API Center (youtube.com)
Sign up for updates and news: Stay in touch with Azure API Center! (office.com)
Other updates:
Public Preview: Modernizing Azure Resou ..read more
The Azure Podcast
2w ago
In this episode, we delve into a cornerstone service within Azure that is sometimes underestimated or missed in design discussions: the Azure Storage service. Our guest, Ben Hummerstone, a seasoned Cloud Solution Architect based in the UK, brings his expertise in storage and other infrastructure services to the forefront. Ben shares a valuable set of guiding principles to assist you in crafting the optimal storage architecture for your application.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode489.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/XIKxPRI1G-Y
Resources:
https ..read more
The Azure Podcast
3w ago
Jose Moreno a Customer Engineer in the FastTrack for Azure team joins Sujit and Russell to talk about Networking, and more specifically discusses best practices for Express Route configuration and monitoring with an eye on resiliency and performance.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode488.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/KUhODMaQjEU
Resources:
FastTrack for Azure: FastTrack for Azure – Technical Enablement FAQ | Microsoft Azure
Azure ER Locations (not to confuse with Azure Regions): Locations and connectivity providers for Azure ExpressRoute | Mi ..read more
The Azure Podcast
1M ago
Fabian Gonzalez and Azure escalation engineer and Jack Lichwa, a PM in the Azure Key Vault team, revisit the Key Vault service which forms the backbone of any deployment. They remind us of the features that Key Vault offers and give us valuable tips and tricks to configure and deploy them effectively in your workloads.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode487.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Pd5seEyqTzI
Other updates:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-aks-cluster-control-plane-metrics-in-managed-prometheus/
ht ..read more
The Azure Podcast
1M ago
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=PLlrxD0Ht ..read more
The Azure Podcast
1M ago
Santosh Somayajula, a Principal Product Manager in Azure, breaks down the new Copilot for Azure service which is currently in Private Preview in the Azure Portal. Using this feature, administrators and management can perform operations in the Portal using simple verbal commands instead of navigating the UI.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode485.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gqv-qOOoK28
Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/copilot/overview
https://aka.ms/MSCopilotforAzurePreviewRequest
Other updates:
General Ava ..read more
The Azure Podcast
2M ago
Sean Klein joins Evan, Sujit, and Cale to talk about the Production LiveSite Review (PLR) process used by Azure Engineering for modern incident analysis and learnings.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode484.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/EsRrxguRn2Y
Resources:
How Complex Systems Fail
Etsy Engineering | Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
Other updates:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/quickstart-create-and-run-load-test
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/how-to-parameterize-load-tests#secrets
  ..read more
The Azure Podcast
3M ago
Cale, Evan and Sujit discuss the often-overlooked Network Watcher service in Azure and how it can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting and logging of network operations in your VNETs.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode482.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/CYLtFrbXGck
Resources:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview
Other updates:
Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 ..read more
The Azure Podcast
4M ago
Mark Eisenberg joins Cale and Sujit to dissect the Azure-related updates announced at the Ignite Conference in November 2023.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode480.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/bbt4wTjo7G4
Resources:
https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/
Mark Russinovich - Inside AI Innovations ..read more
The Azure Podcast
4M ago
Today the team chat to Keith Howling, a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, on the topic of Platform Engineering with Radius, an open source app deployment engine.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode479.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/JWCaXfTf77A
Resources:
Radius:
RadApp
Introducing Radius: A new open-source application platform for cloud-native apps
Other news:
General availability: Rate limit rules for Application Gateway web application firewall
Export cost using focus
Azure support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024
Experi ..read more