We chat with Nir Mashkowski, Principal PM Manager, about the evolution of PaaS since its inception 10+ years ago, some of the usage patterns that he has observed, the benefits and reasoning of using PaaS services, and the future of where Azure PaaS services is headed. 

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode431.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/b3zUtaCnhTE

Resources:

Overview - Azure App Service | Microsoft Docs

Azure Functions Overview | Microsoft Docs

What is Azure Static Web Apps? | Microsoft Docs

Azure Container Apps documentation | Microsoft Docs

Dapr - Distributed Application Runtime

KEDA | Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling

Azure FastTrack Engineers John Downs and Arsen Vladimirskiy explain how multi-tenant architectures can be deployed on Azure. They talk about the various factors that should be considered when designing these types of applications.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode430.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/r4pePMf_Y28

Resources: 

https://aka.ms/multitenancy

https://aka.ms/multitenancy/live

https://aka.ms/multitenancy/feedback

Other Updates:

Generally available: HTTP proxy support for AKS clusters | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Custom certificate authorities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Improved Try Azure Cosmos DB for free experience | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cale and Cynthia chat with Manju Ramanathpura about the Azure Native ISV program, the customer experience, the background of the initiative and the investments that are made to streamline various products that developers are using onto Azure.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode429.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DEjJ6DJDjBc

Resources:

Extend Azure with solutions from partners

Updates:

Public preview: AKS release tracker

Threat detection in airports, railways, and retail with Azure Percept

NYC NFT Conference

Infura NFT Service

General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

Azure Orbital Ground Station as Service extends life and reduces costs for satellite operators

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/

The team catches up with Sarah Novotny and Xin Liu to learn about both the network switch SONiC and why Microsoft recently transferred control of it to the Linux Foundation.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode427.mp3

 YouTube: https://youtu.be/hmyz4Qpp9e4

Resources:

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Moves to the Linux Foundation

GitHub Repo

Quick Start

Updates:

General availability: Updates for resource configuration changes 

Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets

Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway

Preview of Windows Admin Center for Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure - Microsoft Windows Server Blog

Audrey Long, a Senior Security Software Engineer in Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft, discusses the Defender for the Cloud service. She explains how the service plays an important part in securing our assets and apps in Azure and other clouds as well. 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode426.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/w5wG6Bf2aQY

Resources: 

Overview: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction

• Microsoft Defender for Servers
• Microsoft Defender for Storage
• Microsoft Defender for SQL
• Microsoft Defender for Containers
• Microsoft Defender for App Service
• Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
• Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
• Microsoft Defender for DNS
• Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases
• Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB (Preview)
• Microsoft Defender for IoT https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/iot-defender/#overview

Other updates:

General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics. | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Start skilling on Azure with these helpful guides

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/start-skilling-on-azure-with-these-helpful-guides/

Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/find-out-why-your-sql-server-data-belongs-on-azure/

Our very own Cynthia Kreng, who is a PM in the Worldwide Customer Success Unit focused on Developer acceleration, talks to us about one their first offerings in API Management.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode424.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/UusIj1ikvLM

Resources:

Repo: https://aka.ms/EnterpriseScale-APIM

Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/app-platform/api-management/landing-zone-accelerator

Other resources:

Manage Red Hat workloads seamlessly on Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-red-hat-workloads-seamlessly-on-azure/

Accelerating innovation in the diabetic foot market with Azure Health Data Services

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/accelerating-innovation-in-the-diabetic-foot-market-with-azure-health-data-services/

Join us and the developer community to celebrate Azure Static Web Apps

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/join-us-and-the-developer-community-to-celebrate-azure-static-web-apps/

Microsoft Build 5/24-5/26

https://mybuild.microsoft.com/

Kyle Teegarden, a Senior PM in the DevDiv group, gets us re-acquainted with the Redis offering on Azure and discusses all the latest features including the Enterprise tier.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode423.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/xKA-w7Icn00

Resources:

Azure Cache for Redis | Microsoft Azure

How to Improve Your Azure SQL Performance by up to 800% - Microsoft Tech Community

Cache-Aside pattern - Azure Architecture Center

Implement Redis Pub/Sub and Streams in Azure Cache for Redis - Learn

Optimize your web applications by caching read-only data with Redis - Learn 

Quickstart: Use Azure Cache for Redis in .NET Core

Updates:

Generally available: Node pool snapshot

Generally available: Scale-down mode in AKS

Public preview: Static Web Apps now supports Gitlab and Bitbucket for CI/CD

Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service 

Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall

Customize your secure VM session experience with native client support on Azure Bastion

Thomas Stringer is a Software Engineering Lead in the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft and he gives us insights into the OSM add-on for AKS and tells us why that makes applications on AKS so much more secure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode422.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DICsJmFSGCs

Resources: https://openservicemesh.io/

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (cncf.io)

Other updates:

General availability: App Service - Networking capabilities added to Basic pricing tier | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: App Service - Configure networking in Azure Portal during app creation | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team talks with Pujitha and Sidhanshu about Project Flash, an initiative to improve VM availability monitoring that allows for immediate actions and trend analysis at scale.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode421.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7vXz-tjQAA

Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-azure-virtual-machine-availability-monitoring-with-project-flash/ 

https://aka.ms/flashblog

Other updates:

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-sql-database-hyperscale-reverse-migration-to-general-purpose-tier/

General availability: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-zone-redundancy-for-azure-sql-database-general-purpose-tier/

Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-purview-is-now-microsoft-purview/

Getting rid of credentials in Azure (multi-part)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/getting-rid-of-credentials-in-azure-part-1/ba-p/3265205

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2022 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-sql-public-preview-updates-for-midapril-2022/

Generally available: IBM WebSphere on Azure with evaluation licensing

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ibm-websphere-on-azure-with-evaluation-licensing/