by Sujit D'Mello
December 25, 2013
- Episode 11Basics of Hadoop
- Definition of what "Big Data" it.
- How to provision a Hadoop Cluster
- What are jobs and why are they important?
- What is MS bringing that is different?
Media: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode11.mp3
LINKS
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/documentation/services/hdinsight/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsa-5LGx_IY
9:50 is approximately when Ariel starts getting really excited. J
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December 19, 2013
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November 21, 2013
- Multi-tenant versus Dedicated.
- What are the differences?
- Are there differences from on-premise SQL Server?
- Troubleshooting
- Scale Out vs. Scale Up
- What about "other" database platforms
Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode6.mp3
Links:
10 tools for Windows Azure
by Sujit D'Mello
November 14, 2013
- What is IAAS
- Basics of why IAAS is available/what gaps do they fill
- How much does this cost?
- How are these useful (scenarios)
- Management tools
- Tips/Tricks to using VMs effectively?
- Special guest Evan Basalik - Azure Support Specialist from Microsoft!
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode5.mp3
Links
Hot off the press - announced today - Visual Studio Online lets you edit an Azure Website directly from any modern browser (on any platform).
1) Go to the Azure Portal.
2) Pick a Site and click on the Configure tab.
3) Open the Dashboard - you will have the Edit in Visual Studio Online option.
WAAD - http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2013/11/08/creating-and-managing-multiple-windows-azure-active-directories.aspx
'Capturing' Windows Server VMs - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/manage/windows/how-to-guides/capture-an-image/
by Sujit D'Mello
November 7, 2013
We talk about some of the Storage options available in Windows Azure, specifically Blobs and Tables. We will cover Queues at a later episode when talking about the Service Bus.
- Blob Containers
- Programming
- Page/Block blobs
- Upload tools
- Local and Geo Replication
- Redundancy
- Security
- Tables - basic structure
- How to create your own table structures
- LINQ syntax for querying tables.
- REST API for storage access
- Current challenges using storage and some workarounds.
Media file: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode4.mp3
Updates
- Storage: Import/Export Hard Disk Drives to your Storage Accounts - securely ship hard disk drives to move data.
- VMs: New VM Gallery UI, ACL support for VIPs via portal;
- Web Sites: WebSocket and Remote Debugging Support
- Notification Hubs: Segmented customer push notification support with tag expressions
- TFS & GIT: Continuous Delivery Support for Web Sites + Cloud Services
- Developer Analytics and Monitoring: New Relic support for Web Sites + Mobile Services in partnership with New Relic with Windows Azure Management Portal making it really easy to configure.
- Service Bus: Support for partitioned queues and topics.
- Billing: New Billing Alert Service that sends emails notifications when your bill hits a threshold you define
- New Windows Azure Cache Service http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/cache/
Links
Windows Azure PowerShell CmdLets
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj152841.aspx
Announcing the preview of a new Windows Azure service: Windows Azure Scheduler
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/scheduler/
http://alexandrebrisebois.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/create-database-diagrams-of-your-windows-azure-sql-databases/
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November 1, 2013
Basics of Azure Websites
Why they are important
Types of websites
What's going on under the covers
How to deploy
Media File: http://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode3.mp3
TIP: Backup and restore your Azure Tables: Use the Azure Storage Explorer tool and select the Upload/Download facility. You can download the tables in various formats on your computer and later upload them back if required.
Windows Azure HDInsight is now generally available. This is the Microsoft Hadoop distribution made for Azure. You can spin up nodes only when required for running compute-intense jobs.
Nice MSDN article on Azure Websites for further reading : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj883953.aspx
Real-world Azure architecture videos from the User group in Belgium: http://azug.be (click the Videos tab)
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October 25, 2013