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After talking to Ryan Berry a little while back about OneStream's journey to Azure, the team catches back up with him to hear about how their architecture will evolve in the future to be more Cloud Native. In addition, they discuss the challenges of rearchitecting a pre-existing product when you cannot afford the have dual stacks running at the same time.
Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode467.mp3
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4x7jDjs-8
Corporate Performance Management Software | OneStream Software
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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
Other updates:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-registry-cache
Keywords: AI
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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
Resources:
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
Jorge Palma, the Lead PM for Azure Kubernetes Services, talks to Evan and Sujit about the Long-Term Support (LTS) version Kubernetes which provides support for 2 years. He tells us how this model works and who may benefit from this option.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode462.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/zmrOegThyCE
Resources: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-kubernetes-upgrades-and-long-term-support/ba-p/3782789
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2023/04/18/join-microsoft-at-kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-europe-2023/
Keywords: Kubernetes
Russell and Sujit talk to Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products at NVIDIA, about a new offering in Azure via the Marketplace that will make it easier to get NVIDIA's software onto the Azure platform to make it easier for customers to take advantage of their GPU accelerated instances.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode461.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HcAjq8jAzqo
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-enterprise-ready-generative-ai
Other Updates:
Public preview: Azure Cold Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Machine Learning, GPU
Cale, Evan and Sujit talk to Neha Rathod, Garv Jasuja, Akshay Gupta and Vijay Chiluveru, who are Graduate Students at Penn State University that have developed a wireless monitoring device to detect cardiac arrest and alert the caretakers. We talk to them about how they developed the product and how Azure helped speed up the development.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode460.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VQAVhLpzKCE
https://alertheart.com/
https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/engineering-graduate-students-named-finalists-microsoft-imagine-cup/
Microsoft Build May 23 - 25 https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home
Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Keywords: Machine Learning, IoT
Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable information about the state of the platform.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode459.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ousa2qWQEiQ
Blogs
Advancing Azure Service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps
Advancing failure prediction and mitigation – introducing Narya
Advancing safe deployment with AIOps – introducing Gandalf
Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps – introducing AiDice
Webinars
AIOps webinar @ Harvard in Tech Seattle by Dongmei Zhang, Marcus Fontoura, Murali Chintalapati, and Igal Figlin
AIOps Distinguished Industry Lecture by Mark Russinovich at Carneige Mellon University
In addition, the customer can learn more about cutting edge AIOps solutions across industry through participation of Cloud Intelligence / AIOps workshop.
Generally available: Azure Monitor alerts now suggests signals to alert on | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-serverless-sql-for-azure-databricks/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-event-hubs-dedicated-selfserve-scalable-clusters-for-mission-critical-kafka-amqp-and-https-workload/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ebsv5-and-ebdsv5-nvmeenabled-vm-sizes/
Keywords: AIOps
Elizabeth Graham, a Senior Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering group at Microsoft, talks to Evan and Sujit about the various options we have for integrating external systems with Azure. She talks about how messages, files and other input forms can be ingested and processed with some of the services available in Azure.
Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode458.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/NekugFAh2x8
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/integration/integration-start-here
Data Mapper
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-service-fabric-91-third-refresh-release-2/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-crossregion-service-endpoints-for-azure-storage/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azurefilessmblinuxad/
Keywords: Integration
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