Reza Rahman, a Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure, talks to us about the work his team has done to enable customers using legacy Java frameworks to easily migrate to Azure or modernize in a variety of ways.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode449.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/OqjDtcT6c9E

Resources:

https://speakerdeck.com/reza_rahman/why-jakarta-ee-developers-are-first-class-citizens-on-azure

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/java/ee/

https://aka.ms/migration-survey

Other updates:

Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improve-speechtotext-accuracy-with-azure-custom-speech/

Microsoft and Isovalent partner to bring next generation eBPF dataplane for cloud-native applications in Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-isovalent-partner-to-bring-next-generation-ebpf-dataplane-for-cloudnative-applications-in-azure/

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-november-2022/

Free Services | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Our resident expert on all things Java on Azure, Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, gives us all the latest updates on running your Java workloads on various Azure services. He also dives into the newly renamed Azure Spring Apps service which now has more SKUs to address various use-cases.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode428.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/PaMaWij21N0

Resources:

Start Enterprise - https://aka.ms/spring-apps-Enterprise
Develop your first Spring Boot app - https://aka.ms/Start-Spring
Learn using a self-paced workshop - https://aka.ms/Learn-Spring
Watch bite-size demos - https://aka.ms/Spring-Playlist
Leverage best practices - https://aka.ms/Spring-Boot
Build and deploy Java apps on Azure - https://aka.ms/LearnJava
Interact with Azure services using Spring - https://aka.ms/Spring-Cloud-Azure

Technical Case Stories
FedEx - https://aka.ms/FedEx
National Life Group - https://aka.ms/National-Life
Digital Realty Trust - https://aka.ms/DLR
Swiss Re - https://aka.ms/Swiss-Re
Raley's - https://aka.ms/Raley'
Liantis - https://aka.ms/Liantis
Kroger - https://aka.ms/Kroger-on-Azure
Morgan Stanley - https://aka.ms/Morgan-Stanley
Bosch - https://aka.ms/Bosch.IO

Other Updates:

See how 3 industry-leading companies are driving innovation in a new episode of Inside Azure for IT

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/see-how-3-industryleading-companies-are-driving-innovation-in-a-new-episode-of-inside-azure-for-it/

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for facial recognition

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/responsible-ai-investments-and-safeguards-for-facial-recognition/

Azure IoT increases enterprise-level intelligent edge and cloud capabilities

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-increases-enterpriselevel-intelligent-edge-and-cloud-capabilities/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-databricks-available-in-new-regions/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-sdk-for-go/

Various Load Testing updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-splitting-input-data-across-test-engines/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-user-specified-jmeter-properties/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-customermanaged-keys/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-userassigned-managed-identities/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-quick-start-tests-with-web-url/

General availability: Azure Data Explorer connector for Power Automate, Logic Apps, and Power Apps

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/power-platform-connector-ga/

Principal Program Manager for all things Java on Azure, Asir Selvasingh, introduces us to the new Azure Spring Cloud. He gives us a primer on the Spring ecosystem, explains why Microsoft created this new Azure service and provides us with details on how the platform was architected for Azure to meet the needs of Enterprise customers.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode351.mp3

Resources:

Get started --

• Deploy Spring apps to Azure Spring Cloud using quickstart

• Learn using a self-paced workshop on GitHub

• Deploy an existing app to Azure Spring Cloud

• Learn more about implementing solutions on Azure Spring Cloud

• Play YouTube videos and learn

• Migrate your Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Tomcat apps to Azure Spring Cloud

• Wire Spring apps to interact with Azure services.

Info deck: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/artifacts/azure-spring-cloud-intro-sep-2020-s.pdf

Other Updates :

Introducing the Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-microsoft-azure-modular-datacenter/

Solving IoT device security at scale through standards
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/solving-iot-device-security-at-scale-through-standards/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-key-vault-event-grid-integration-is-now-available/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-rolebased-access-control-rbac-for-azure-key-vault-data-plane-authorization-is-now-in-preview/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/fluent-bit-connector-for-azure-storage-to-support-azure-data-explorer/

Ashish Chhabria, a Program Manager in the Azure Messaging team, talks to us about the newly added support for JMS 2.0 in Service Bus. He discusses the ease at which existing Java applications can modernize by using Service Bus in Azure with no code changes.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode344.mp3

Resources: 

Other updates:

Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management + Billing is now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/connector-for-aws-in-azure-cost-management-billing-is-now-generally-available/

Prepare and certify your devices for IoT Plug and Play

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/prepare-and-certify-your-devices-for-iot-plug-and-play/

Durable functions release 

Private link for azure cache for redis

Continuing our sessions from BUILD 2018, here is a great discussion with Asir Selvasingh on running Java on Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode232.mp3

Cale, Evan and Sujit talk to Asir Selvasingh, a Principal PM in the Azure Team, about the work his team is doing to simplify the management libraries in .NET and Java so that it takes a single statement to say create a VM.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode154.mp3

Other updates:

New Documentation Format for Azure
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/
 
The Intelligent Data Lake
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-intelligent-data-lake/
 
Public Preview: Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/public-preview-azure-data-lake-tools-for-visual-studio-code-vscode/
 
App Service on Linux now supports Containers and ASP.NET Core
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/app-service-on-linux-now-supports-containers-and-asp-net-core/
 
The Santa Cloud
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-santa-cloud/
 
What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services – November 2016 Digest
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/visual-studio-team-services-november-2016-digest/

We talk to Christina Compy, a Principal PM on the Azure team, about running Java apps on Azure.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode145.mp3

Resources:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/web-sites-java-get-started/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/develop/java/
http://tryappservice.azure.com/

Other updates:

https://trello.com/b/FAA147vS/azure-api-management-product-roadmap

Bletchley - release & roadmap - Cryplets deep dive
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/cryptletsdd/

Project Bletchley - Blockchain infrastructure made easy
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/project-bletchley-blockchain-infrastructure-made-easy/

Data Factory supports multiple web service inputs for Azure ML Batch Execution
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/data-factory-multiple-web-service-inputs-azure-ml-batch-execution/

Announcing the release of Azure Mobile Apps Node SDK v3.0.0
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-release-of-azure-mobile-apps-node-sdk-v3-0-0/

Build cloud apps at warp speed
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/build-cloud-apps-at-warp-speed/