As part of our make-it-real series, the guys discuss a question posed to us by a colleague regarding migrating a realtime financial app to Azure PaaS.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode103.mp3

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-app-service-authentication-authorization/

What's in ARM and what's not?

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/resource-manager-supported-services/

This post summarizes the updates and how the new tools will improve your Azure development experience.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-azure-sdk-2-8-for-net/

Azure Disk Encryption for Linux and Windows Virtual Machines-Public Preview Now Available
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/azuresecurity/archive/2015/11/16/azure-disk-encryption-for-linux-and-windows-virtual-machines-public-preview.aspx

Azure Service Fabric in Public Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/

Azure Dev/Test Labs in Public Preview
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devtest-lab/

Cale and Sujit chat with Jos De Bruijn, a Senior PM in the Data Services team, about this new in-memory processing option for SQL Azure.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/sql-database-in-memory/

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn133186.aspx

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode102.mp3

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-threat-detection-for-azure-sql-database/

https://soundcloud.com/theredzonepodcast/an-insaciders-look-at-the-security-of-microsoft-azure-assume-the-breach-episode-28

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-sql-database-query-store/

Cale and Evan chat with Gaurav Malhotra who is a PM with the Azure team.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode101.mp3

Announcing a new partnership between Microsoft and Red Hat
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-a-new-partnership-between-microsoft-and-red-hat/

Azure DocumentDB is now available in South Central US
From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-documentdb-is-now-available-in-south-central-us/>

Elastic Database Transactions with Azure SQL Database

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/elastic-database-transactions-with-azure-sql-database/>

Microsoft Virtual Academy: Security in a cloud-enabled world

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-virtual-academy-security-in-a-cloud-enabled-world/>

Dynamic Data Masking is now generally available for Azure SQL Database

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/dynamic-data-masking-generally-available/>

General availability of Cloud Foundry and preview access of Pivotal Cloud Foundry

From <https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-cloud-foundry-and-preview-access-of-pivotal-cloud-foundry/>

The guys continue their analysis of the AzureCon 2015 announcements and bring us up-tp-date on the latest in the Azure space. They also reminisce a bit about the last 99 episodes.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode100.mp3

Other resources:

An early look at Containers: Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and Azure with Mark Russinovich (Microsoft Mechanics)

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/an-early-look-containers-windows-server-2016-hyper-v-and-azure-with-mark-russinovich/ 

Azure Data Lake reaches Public Preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-lake-reaches-public-preview/

Introducing the Azure DSCForLinux Extension

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introduce-azure-dscforlinux-extension/

The Walking Dead: No Man's Land game soars to #1 supported by Azure DocumentDB

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-walking-dead-no-mans-land-game-soars-to-1-with-azure-documentdb/

All Things Open - Raleigh, NC

http://www.zdnet.com/article/mark-russinovich-the-microsoft-azure-cloud-and-open-source/

http://azurecorner.com/access-your-azure-vms-through-a-web-browser-with-thinrdp/

Cale and Sujit discuss the announcements at AzureCon and also some geeky stuff with GPUs.

Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode99.mp3

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/

Virtual academy training by AzureCAT: “Deep Dive into Azure Resource Manager Scenarios and Patterns”

Convert from ASM to ARM (not official)

https://github.com/fullscale180/asm2arm

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: 

• Logic App to send SMS via Twilio API. Create a Twilio account first.

• Logic App to send Slack messages. Create a Slack account first

• Logic App to send messages to an Azure Queue.

From Azure Automation team:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/using-azure-automation-to-take-actions-on-azure-alerts/

Ashwin's recent blog post on the topic: 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/webhooks-for-azure-alerts/

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

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

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

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