by Sujit D'Mello
October 22, 2015
by Sujit D'Mello
October 15, 2015
We chat with Ashwin Kamath, a Senior PM in the Azure team about the WebHooks feature that was recently released. It allows for easy integration of Azure Alerts with any other incident management system that the customer may be using.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode98.mp3

Webhooks for alerts: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webhooks-for-azure-alerts/
PagerDuty integration guide : https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/azure-integration-guide/
They can also use Twilio SMS, Slack channel or Azure Queues for alert notifications:
From Azure Automation team:
Ashwin's recent blog post on the topic:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webhooks-for-azure-alerts/
by Sujit D'Mello
October 7, 2015
Evan and Sujit talk to Kathleen Wilson who is a cloud specialist at Microsoft focused on helping companies adopt and manage cloud technologies. She shares some unique insight into the human aspect of cloud adoption and how people and processes need to be addressed first before going to the cloud. She is also a regular speaker at events around the world on this topic.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode97.mp3
Other links:
Microsoft Azure is now generally available from three new India regions
Azure Datacenter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ44hEr5DFE
by Evan Basalik
October 1, 2015
We are joined by Mahesh Thiagarajan, a Senior PM in the Azure Compute team responsible for the work behind the new IaaS V2 service that runs under ARM. He discusses some of the enhancements in the VM-hosting service and reasons for the new model and how customers can migrate to this new service.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode96.mp3
by Sujit D'Mello
September 24, 2015
Sujit and Evan talk about Azure Service Fabric, the soon-to-be-released PaaS model that works both in the cloud and on-premises.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode95.mp3

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/campaigns/service-fabric
by Cale Teeter
September 17, 2015
Cale has started on a project to re-architect the azpodcast.com website using Visual Studio Code, node.js, Express, DocumentDB etc. and he shares the design and work done so far. User feedback is welcome!

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode94.mp3
Other updates:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/boot-diagnostics-for-virtual-machines-v2/
What’s new with DocumentDB?
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/what-s-new-with-documentdb/
Public Preview for Performance Test on Web and Mobile Apps
Azure Service Bus Premium Messaging is available
SQL Server Management Studio August 2015 preview is now available https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238290.aspx
TechNet article Lock down network access to virtual machines on Azure virtual networks by Sr. PM Tom Shinder
by Sujit D'Mello
September 10, 2015
We are fortunate to have Charles Joy on the show who is a Senior PM from the Azure Stack team and he gives us the low-down on the product and the exciting scenarios that it enables.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode93.mp3
http://aka.ms/AzureStack
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/templates/dsc-extension-azure-automation-pullserver/
Other updates:
AzureCon - September 29th https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/
SIGCOMM keynote by Albert Greenberg
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/19/microsoft-showcases-software-defined-networking-innovation-at-sigcomm-v2
Pingmesh: A Large-Scale System for Data Center Network Latency Measurement and Analysis
Network-Aware Scheduling for Data-Parallel Jobs: Plan When You Can
Low Latency Geo-distributed Data Analytics
Silo: Predictable Message Latency in the Cloud
Hopper: Decentralized Speculation-aware Cluster Scheduling at Scale
Packet-Level Telemetry in Large Datacenter Networks
Enabling End-Host Network Functions
Congestion Control for Large-Scale RDMA deployments
R2C2: A Network Stack for Rack-scale Computers
Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors
by Evan Basalik
September 2, 2015
As part of our Engineer Series, the guys talk to Tomas Talius who is an architect in the Azure SQL team and gives us some insight into the product.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode92.mp3
Updates:
Announcing the GS-Series: Adding Premium Storage Support to the Largest VMs in the Public Cloud
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-has-the-most-powerful-vms-in-the-public-cloud/
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/logic-apps-net-sdk-available/
where you can download the SDK and check out this week’s Logic Apps video https://youtu.be/N-ZDaKsH6BY?list=PLfyqq4V4zxGGkBHcts3vpPohtyKYZ7UiQ
You can use the following script to convert an Active Directory object GUID to an Azure Active Directory Immutable ID….
Convert DirSync/MS Online Directory Immutable ID to AD GUID (and vice versa)
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Covert-DirSyncMS-Online-5f3563b1
by Sujit D'Mello
August 26, 2015
The guys talk to David Crawford who is an Azure Architect at Microsoft helping customers create innovative solutions with Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode91.mp3
Cloud Foundry on Azure Preview 2 Now Available
Mark shares his perspective on containerization
Microsoft Azure Government Adds New Certifications
We are excited to announce the availability of Azure Machine Learning in the Southeast Asia (SEA) region in Singapore.
Azure PowerShell 0.9.7 is available
Stay up-to-date with Evan's script: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mast/archive/2015/04/12/keeping-azure-powershell-current.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/do-until-looping-in-logic-apps/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
High-Availability Line of Business Application content set
Announcing Geospatial support in Azure DocumentDB
https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Internet-of-Things-Blog/Using-the-AllJoyn--Studio-Extension
The AllSeen Alliance created AllJoyn to empower the Internet of Things. Windows 10 has AllJoyn built natively into its platform, allowing developers to easily take advantage of AllJoyn to "IoT-enable" your Windows 10 apps. This article will outline the steps required to build apps for Windows 10 using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) AllJoyn APIs and the Visual Studio 2015 AllJoyn® Studio Extension.
by Cale Teeter
August 24, 2015