The Azure Podcast
A Program Manager in the Azure Chaos Studio team, Vikram Raju joins us to give us a refresher on the service and what latest updates have just been released.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode474.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/UJYhjFoM25U
Resources:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/testing/mission-critical-deployment-testing
Other updates:
https://aka.ms/AIR/VVTQ-J98 - this the public-facing Azure Incident Retrospective that covers the Australia East outage.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-web-pubsub-support-for-socketio/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-malware-scanning-in-defender-for-storage-2/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-timeline-view-for-azure-monitor-alerts/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/openai-whisper-model-in-preview-in-azure-openai-service-and-azure-ai-speech/
Keywords: Chaos
Filed Under: Podcast
Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, talks to us about Azure Arc. He explains the history of the service, how it helps you develop, operate and secure your applications anywhere, and why it is deserves more attention from customers, even if you don't use Azure today.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode473.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/WTSoAThTJuI
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/managing-and-governing-hybrid-environments-with-azure-arc/hybrid-and-multicloud-resource-management-with-azure-arc
https://azurearcjumpstart.io/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/r-word-starting-appear-cloud-conversations-its-time-set-vishwas-lele
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/announcing-javascript-sdk-v4/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-configure-customermanaged-keys-on-existing-cosmos-db-accounts/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-use-azure-key-vault-to-securely-store-and-retrieve-access-key-when-mounting-azure-storage-as-a-local-sha/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/configure-load-testing-in-your-cicd-pipeline-from-azure-portal/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-sensitive-data-protection-for-application-gateway-web-application-firewall-logs/
https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/1168
Keywords: Arc
Farzad Sunavala, Senior PM in the Azure Cognitive Search team, reveals the details of the new Vector Search feature. He explains some of the concepts of Vector search and how developers can easily take advantage of this in their Open AI apps.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode472.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/jAvuVTUNZ2k
https://aka.ms/IntroducingVectorSearch
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-app-configuration-public-preview-release-of-snapshots-feature/
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-container-apps-supports-additional-tcp-ports/
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-azure-container-apps-jobs/
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-worker-cold-start-improvements/
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-8-support-in-linux-plans/
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-autoupgrade-scheduled-maintenance-for-aks/
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-azure-sql-updates-for-lateaugust-2023/
Keywords: Search
We talk to Steve Selleny, a Global Partner Development Manager at Microsoft, about the AI and ML trends he has noticed in Financial Services ISVs.
Steve has been working in the technology sector for over 21 years in various roles including software development, systems architecture, consulting, sales, and partner management. For the past two years, he has been working with Financial Services Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to build and market solutions on the Microsoft Cloud that drive digital transformation for customers.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode471.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/6WDlqR34M48
https://news.microsoft.com/2023/06/29/moodys-and-microsoft-develop-enhanced-risk-data-analytics-research-and-collaboration-solutions-powered-by-generative-ai/
Strengthening Your Defenses: Simulation Testing for Azure DDoS Protection - Microsoft Community Hub
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-ratelimit-rules-for-application-gateway-web
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-terraform-support-for-azure-cosmos-db
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-durable-functions-for-python-v2
https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-99th-percentile-latency-metric-in-azure
Upgrade to App Service Environment v3 today and unlock new capabilities | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-services-retirement-announcement/
Keywords: AI, ML
Evan and Sujit cover a whole bunch of updates to various Azure services such as AKS, ACA, Functions, VMs, PostgerSQL, VNETs and Storage.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode470.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/eGsnmw5WjHI
VMs
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-subscription-restore-for-azure-virtual-machines/
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/introducing-new-performance-tiers-for-azure-managed-lustre/ba-p/3900329
Storage
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-elastic-san-updates-private-endpoints-shared-volumes/
Functions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-sdk-type-bindings-in-azure-functions/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-application-insights-integration-for-the-azure-functions-net-worker/
AKS/ACA
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-127-support-in-aks/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-key-vault-references-for-secrets-in-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-secrets-volume-mounts-for-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-session-affinity-for-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-init-containers-in-azure-container-apps/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors-in-azure-container-apps/
PostgreSQL
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-storage-autogrow-online-disk-scaling-for-azure-database-for-postgresql-flexible-server/
Major Version Upgrade of a flexible server - Azure portal | Microsoft Learn
VNET
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-vnet-flow-logs/
Keywords: Updates
Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode469.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0DkkVkfw2o
Scale generative AI with new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/azure-customer-stories-ai
Chaos Studio updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-supports-new-faults-for-app-service-and-virtual-machines/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-is-now-available-in-southeast-asia-region/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-has-userassigned-managed-identity-and-custom-role-assignment/
Load Testing Updates
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-for-up-to-24-hours/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-create-and-manage-tests-and-test-runs-using-azure-cli/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-with-100000-virtual-users/
Keywords: Data
Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to reason over their own data.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode466.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/nDcIWvHa43s
Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/overview
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-registry-cache
Keywords: AI
Evan and Sujit talk to Principal PM Ramya Oruganti about the release of Functions as a first class managed service on Azure Container Apps. She tells us how this opens up possibilities for event-driven applications on ACA with full support for KEDA, Bindings, Dapr, GitHub Actions etc.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode465.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/0XR0PJuB_ko
https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-on-container-apps
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-functions-for-cloud-native-microservices-public-preview/ba-p/3826800
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-deploy-container-apps?tabs=acr%2Cbash&pivots=programming-language-csharp
Understanding Service Health communications for Azure vulnerabilities | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements workbook template in Azure Advisor | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Cloud Native
Cale and Russell talk to the Microsoft Program Manager for DevBox and Azure Deployment Environments, Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala, about how Azure Deployment Environments can enable rapid deployment of on-demand dev/test environments while providing governance, security and cost management - plus some more updates from Microsoft Build 2023!
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode464.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/IsgQVMIkhRc
Sagar's links:
Other updates mentioned in this episode:
Keywords: ADE, Azure Deployment Environments, Automation, DevOps
The team catches up with Ryan Berry to learn about OneStream's journey to Azure. They talk about both the benefits and pitfalls and why Ryan is happy OneStream in running in Azure.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode463.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Um4rg4eKRuU
https://www.onestream.com/blog/onestream-splash-dc-wows-attendees-with-ai-powered-cpm-capabilities/
Public Preview – Data Migration for Oracle | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://news.microsoft.com/build-2023-book-of-news/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9265960
Keywords: Migration
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