Azure Friday (Audio)

Azure Code Optimizations

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jan Kalis to demo Azure Code Optimizations for .NET. See how Azure’s AI-driven capabilities he...

Revolutionize Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Azure's Business Continuity Center

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Daya Patil drops in on Scott Hanselman to chat about getting started with Azure Business continuity Center, a single pane of glass for all your Busine...

Extend Azure App Service with Sidecars

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this session Tulika Chaudharie joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Sidecar feature in Azure App Service and how it helps developers extend their a...

Demonstrate features making Azure Cosmos DB even more cost-effective

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rakhi Thejraj joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Cosmos DB! Azure Cosmos DB has been constantly bringing new features to boost performance and ...

Get full-stack observability with the Azure Native New Relic Service

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

New Relic’s all-in-one observability platform makes it simple to optimize your performance by giving you a single source of truth to analyze your ap...

Monitoring Azure Site Recovery with alerting and reporting

09 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nandini Bajaj joins Scott Hanselman to talk about the new alerting and reporting capabilities released by Azure BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster...

Boosting developer productivity & app efficiency with Azure Cosmos DB

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Richa Gaur joins Scott Hanselman to talk about how to boost developer productivity & app efficiency with Azure Cosmos DB while building an energy ...

Accelerated Logs for Azure DB for MySQL Flexible Server (Business Critical)

26 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that with the Accelerated Logs feature in Azure Database for MySQL Business Critical service tier, the service provides 100% improvement ...

Exploring Azure Cloud Shell's new UI and ephemeral sessions

12 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Darren Tu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new UI in Azure Cloud Shell and ephemeral (non-persistent) Cloud Shell sessions. Learn more about the A...

Troubleshoot your apps faster with App Service using Microsoft Copilot for Azure

03 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hanna Endrias joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Microsoft Copilot for Azure integration in Azure App Service. App Service has over sixty troubleshootin...

Generate NoSQL queries with Microsoft Copilot for Azure in Cosmos DB

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Scott Hanselman and James Codella to learn how you can turn your natural language questions about your data into Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL queries to...

Safeguard your containerized workloads using AKS backup

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Buchanan and Rajat Shrivastava join Scott Hanselman to explore the functionality of Azure Kubernetes Service backup in safeguarding containerize...

Build scalable applications with Azure cross-region Load Balancer

22 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Hanselman and Mahip Deora explore the Azure cross-region Load Balancer, a global OSI Model Layer 4 load balancing solution. Now you can distribu...

Azure Cosmos DB: The database for your AI apps

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Scott Hanselman, Kirill Gavrylyuk, and James Codella to learn about Azure Cosmos DB's built-in vector search capabilities, how customers are usin...

Exploring the Azure Quantum Development Kit

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Stefan Wernli and Scott Hanselman as they unveil the full capabilities of the Azure Quantum Development Kit 1.0. This latest update revolutionize...

Introducing Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Khelan Modi joins Scott Hanselman to explore the features of Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB vCore, highlighting enhanced compatibility, seamless Azure in...

Scale your stateful apps with Azure Container Storage

06 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Azure Container Storage offers highly scalable, cost-efficient, and performant storage, built natively for containers. Azure Container Storage simplif...

Build real-time apps with Azure Web PubSub for Socket.IO

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Socket.IO is a library for building low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server. Now you can build real-ti...

Introducing Azure Elastic SAN (Storage Area Network)

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Katherine Lu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new capabilities of Elastic SAN, a new storage offering that offers a scalable, cost-effective, high...

An introduction to Azure API Management self-hosted gateway

06 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Kerkhove joins Scott Hanselman for a hands-on experience to demonstrate how enterprises can make the transition to API-first architectures and mic...

Integrate your mainframes and midranges with Azure Logic Apps

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Harold Campos joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Logic Apps to build native integration solutions for mainframes and midranges, inclu...

Use Azure Virtual Desktop Insights to monitor your AVD deployment

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ben Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to walk through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights, which is a native monitoring solution that gives you visibility...

Introducing Vector Search in Azure Cognitive Search

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Liam Cavanagh joins Scott Hanselman to explain vector search in Azure Cognitive Search. Vector search is a method of searching for information within ...

Azure Linux with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

28 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Olivia Al Joundi and Sudhanva Huruli join Scott Hanselman to discuss the recently announced Azure Linux for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Linu...

Update: Azure Kubernetes Services Tools extension in VS Code

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rong Zhang and Tatsat Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the latest updates for the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated d...

Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise: What's new for app development

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sean Noyes, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect from Redis, joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the latest advancements in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise....

What's new in Azure Database for MySQL

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Parikshit Savjani joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the evolution of Azure Database for MySQL, an open-source MySQL database on Azure. The conversation...

Connect your Static Web Apps to Azure Databases using REST or GraphQL

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Davide Mauri and Thomas Gauvin join Scott Hanselman to show how building a full-stack or JAMstack solution has never been so easy. Using Azure Static ...

Containerize and deploy your app with automated deployments for AKS

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Simplify your Kubernetes development process with automated deployments for AKS powered by Draft. With just a few clicks, automated deployments take c...

Azure is the home for your Java applications, Part 2

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rory Preddy joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate how to develop Java applications on Azure using a variety of tools and services. He shows how to use ...

Creating WordPress sites on Azure App Service

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tulika Chaudharie joins Scott Hanselman to introduce and demonstrate the power of WordPress on Azure App Service. See how easy it is to deploy and man...

Azure Cognitive Service for Vision with the Florence foundation model

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adina Trufinescu joins Scott to introduce and demonstrate Azure Cognitive Service for Vision and the next-generation computer vision capabilities with...

Enhanced Hybrid Next.js Support in Azure Static Web Apps

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We recently announced support for Next.js Hybrid Rendering scenarios: Server-Side Rendering and Incremental Static Regeneration, which add to Static G...

Change Data Capture and Managed Airflow in Azure Data Factory

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Kromer and Abhishek Narain join Scott Hanselman to talk about two new capabilities in Azure Data Factory: Change Data Capture (CDC) and Managed A...

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Edge Essentials

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Did you know that Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is now available as a managed service not just in Azure, but also at the edge? Lior Kamrat joins Scot...

Deploy your mission-critical workload in an Azure landing zone

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hansjoerg Scherer joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to deploy your mission-critical workload in an Azure landing zone. For enterprises, a mission c...

Developing Azure Functions using the v2 programming model for Python

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Gavin Aguiar and Shreya Batra join Scott Hanselman to discuss the v2 programming model for Azure Functions using Python, which provides an Azure Funct...

Health modeling for mission-critical workloads on Azure

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sebastian Bader joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use health modeling to minimize downtime of your mission-critical workloads on Azure. With h...

Calling external REST endpoints from Azure SQL Database

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Davide Mauri joins Scott Hanselman to discuss a recently announced feature of Azure SQL DB that makes integration with REST APIs incredibly easy. A ne...

Continuously validate and test your mission-critical Azure workloads

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's crucial to test recent changes before rolling them out to production, especially for mission-critical workloads. You want to be sure that the sys...

Managing, reporting, and reducing your costs in Azure

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The cloud costs money and you want to control that. Barry 'Azure Barry' Luijbregts and Scott Hanselman cover what things cost money in the cloud, how ...

Migrating mainframe and midrange systems to Azure

16 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mainframe and midrange systems have been at the core of many organizations for their mission-critical workloads. Cristina Potra joins Scott Hanselman ...

Authoring and deploying Azure resources with Bicep

28 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever tried to deploy to Azure with ARM templates, but found them too difficult or overwhelming to learn? Alex Frankel joins Scott Hanselman t...

Develop with SQL on your desktop using the Azure SQL Database emulator

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Drew Skwiers-Koballa shows Scott Hanselman a new option for developing with Azure SQL Database: The Azure SQL Database emulator, which is a containeri...

Azure Confidential Computing with Confidential VMs and AKS nodes

27 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Amar Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Confidential Computing protects data in use and helps you achieve data security and data privacy go...

Introducing Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL enables developers to build scalable PostgreSQL apps. Kirill Gavrylyuk and Charles Feddersen join Scott Hanselman to ex...

Desktop tools for developing with Azure Cosmos DB

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Estefani Arroyo joins Scott Hanselman to talk about and demo Azure Cosmos DB desktop tools for developing, querying, and testing your applications. Th...

Introducing the Azure Developer CLI (azd)

11 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Going from your local development environment to the cloud can be challenging. Savannah Ostrowski joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Develope...

New API back-end options in Azure Static Web Apps

26 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Front-end web applications often call back-end APIs for data and services. Annina Keller joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Static Web Apps provi...

Industry-aware analytics using Azure Synapse database templates

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lakshmi Murthy joins Scott Hanselman to show how to build your enterprise data model using Azure Synapse database templates to add rich business conte...

Modernize your API stack with GraphQL and Azure API Management

29 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth Barnitt joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demo GraphQL support in Azure API Management, which allows you to import, validate, secure, and...

Azure SQL Database: Non-blocking transactions

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Managing concurrent access to a resource, be it a row, a table, or a single value, is easy if no one is trying to modify the underlying data. But what...

Azure Kubernetes Services Tools extension in VS Code

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Rong Zhang and Tats Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated Azure Kubernetes Services ...

Azure SQL Database: Columnstore indexes

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Davide Mauri is back with Lara Rubbelke to discuss columnstore indexes. In a typical relational database data is stored per row. This means that all r...

Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes extensibility model

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes extensibility model, which makes any Kubernetes cluster outside of Azure a t...

Azure SQL Database: An introduction to temporal tables

20 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you are familiar with the Event Sourcing and CQRS patterns, then you know that they are extremely powerful, but can be quite complex to implement c...

Azure is the home for your Java applications, Part 1

17 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Bruno Borges joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Java development with Microsoft. Like many of our customers, Microsoft is a Java shop with lots of sy...

Azure SQL Database: Multi-model features

26 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In recent years, developers pushed for relational databases to be more flexible and open to the many different formats (e.g., JSON, graph, and spatial...

Architecting multitenant solutions on Azure

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Downs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how to design, architect, and build multitenant solutions on Azure. If you're building a SaaS product or a...

Azure SQL Database: A developer's best friend

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the first of a series of episodes about Azure SQL Database, Davide Mauri joins Lara Rubbelke to give an overview of Grouping Sets and Windowing Fun...

Azure DDoS Protection and other cloud native security options

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tanya Janca joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the various security features within Azure that are cloud native and what that means for security profess...

Using Azure Cognitive Services to create more accessible experiences

08 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Henk Boelman joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how AI can help to create more accessible experiences with Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Servi...

Introducing Azure Load Testing

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

John Stallo joins Scott Hanselman to introduce Azure’s new, fully managed load testing service that enables developers and testers to generate high-...

Optimize query performance with Azure Cosmos DB indexing metrics

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Learn how to use the new Azure Cosmos DB indexing metrics to improve query performance. Tim Sander shows Scott Hanselman how to obtain, interpret, and...

Add rich search experiences to your applications in Azure with Elastic

15 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Isaac Levin from Elastic joins Scott Hanselman to discuss Elastic Cloud on Azure. Elastic Cloud is an Elasticsearch and Kibana managed service - with ...

Azure Cosmos DB extension for Azure Functions update with AAD support

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Matias Quaranta joins Scott Hanselman to show how the updated Azure Cosmos DB extension for Azure Functions uses the latest Azure Cosmos DB .NET SDK t...

Deploy and connect to an Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster

02 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kavitha Gowda joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demo Azure Red Hat OpenShift, which is jointly engineered, operated, and supported by Microsoft and...

Accelerate your Azure Static Web Apps with enterprise-grade edge

26 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Simona Cotin shows Scott Hanselman how Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-grade edge powered by Azure Front Door enables faster page loads, enhanced sec...

Rapidly build and deliver secure apps with DevSecOps practices

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

April Edwards joins Scott Hanselman to show how delivering apps in a DevOps world also means shifting security left. To securely deliver our apps, org...

Working with data from SAP in Azure and Office 365

07 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over 77% of transaction revenue in the world touches an SAP system, and more SAP systems are running in the cloud each year. The SAP platform provides...

An introduction to Azure Chaos Studio

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Azure Chaos Studio is a is a fully managed chaos engineering experimentation platform for accelerating discovery of hard-to-find problems, from late-s...

An introduction to App Service Environment v3

10 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Azure App Service Environment is an Azure App Service feature that provides a fully isolated and dedicated environment for securely running App Se...

Deploy OpenAPI enabled Azure Functions with .NET in Visual Studio

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Justin Yoo joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate an extension he developed for adding OpenAPI capabilities to Azure Functions apps. See how easy it is ...

Looking at Azure yesterday, today, and tomorrow with Jason Zander

12 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Zander, executive vice president of the Azure Team joins Scott Hanselman to celebrate the 8th anniversary of Azure Friday. In this special cross...

Enable advanced IoT Edge scenarios with ACR connected registry

05 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Toddy Mladenov and Jeanine Burke join Scott Hanselman to talk about the new IoT Edge scenarios enabled by ACR connected registry, which is an on-premi...

Datadog integration with Azure offers a seamless configuration experience

29 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform for large-scale applications. It encompasses infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitor...

Govern your data wherever it resides with Azure Purview

22 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last December, Gaurav was on Azure Friday with Scott Hanselman to introduce a new Azure service: Azure Purview. He showed how Azure Purview scans and...

Automate threat response with Azure Sentinel

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah Young joins Scott Hanselman to discuss updates to Azure Sentinel automation and how you can use it to accelerate and streamline threat response ...

Add communications user experiences with Azure Communication Services

08 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

David de Matheu joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Azure Communication Services UI Library enables you to add communications capabilities to your a...

Demystifying Azure Arc-enabled data services

01 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lior Kamrat joins Scott Hanselman to show how Azure Arc-enabled data services bring Azure data solutions – such as SQL Managed Instance and PostgreS...

Azure Cosmos DB: autoscale, session state, monitoring, and more

24 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kirill Gavrylyuk, Matias Quaranta, Deborah Chen, and Estefani Arroyo join Scott Hanselman to provide another set of updates for Azure Cosmos DB.  Lea...

Enable government missions in the cloud with Azure Government

17 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Michelotti joins Scott Hanselman to show what's new in Azure Government, which provides a physically separate and network-isolated instance of A...

Get a secure baseline architecture for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Derek Martin joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Secure Baseline reference implementation from the Azure Architecture ...

Eliminate data silos with NFS 3.0 support for Azure Blob Storage

03 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Yuan Zheng joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demonstrate Blob storage support for the NFS 3.0 protocol, which enables you to run your applications ...

Quantum-inspired algorithms and the Azure Quantum optimization service

27 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Delbert Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to show how quantum-inspired algorithms mimic quantum physics to solve difficult optimization problems. Quantum-I...

Accelerate time to insights with Azure Synapse Link for Dataverse

21 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Josh Caplan, Sabin Nair, and Priyanka Langade join Scott Hanselman to show how you can use native Azure Synapse Analytical runtimes to analyze Datave...

An introduction to the unified Azure SDK

13 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Connie Yau joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate the advantages of using the new Azure SDK by comparing rewrites of the same application, one using the...

Enable Zero Trust with Azure AD PIM and Azure Lighthouse

06 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management integration in Azure Lighthouse is now in public preview.  Meagan Olsen and Saif Kayani show Scott Hanselman ...

Getting started with Azure Static Web Apps

30 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Anthony Chu joins Scott Hanselman to show how to build, debug, and deploy a full-stack serverless application in minutes with Azure Static Web Apps.[0...

Quantum programming with Q# and running on hardware with Azure Quantum

23 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Mariia Mykhailova joins Scott Hanselman to discuss quantum computing and quantum programming with Microsoft Quantum Development Kit (QDK), from writin...

Issue and accept verifiable credentials using Azure Active Directory

16 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sydney Morton joins Scott Hanselman to show how verifiable credentials enable you to own and prove who you are in the digital world. See how to en...

Azure Cosmos DB cache, serverless MongoDB and Managed Apache Cassandra

09 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kirill Gavrylyuk and friends join Scott Hanselman to discuss Azure Cosmos DB updates: integrated cache, serverless for MongoDB API, and Managed Instan...

New ways to get started with Azure Database for PostgreSQL

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Claire Giordano joins Scott Hanselman to show how the new Free account for Flexible Server & the new Basic tier for Hyperscale (Citus) in Azure Da...

An introduction to the Microsoft identity platform

25 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Christos Matskas joins Scott Hanselman to show how the Microsoft identity platform enables you to add identity authentication and authorization to you...

Better Azure content, programs & services through applied data science

18 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa Cohen joins Scott Hanselman to explain how Microsoft uses data science to help Azure customers. Learn about content, programs, and services to gu...

Run your VMware workloads natively on Azure with Azure VMware Solution

11 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Azure VMware Solution delivers a VMware environment as a service, which enables you to run native VMware workloads on Azure.  Shannon Kuehn shows Sco...

An overview of Azure Web PubSub

04 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Develop web applications with real-time messaging using Azure Web PubSub, a fully managed service that supports native and serverless WebSockets.  Da...

Azure Data Factory update: governance, data flow startup, and CI/CD

28 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Wee Hyong Tok joins Scott Hanselman to provide an Azure Data Factory update with several members of the Azure Data Factory engineering team.[0:00:22]–...

Azure Cosmos DB update: MongoDB 4.0, notebooks, and continuous backup

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kirill Gavrylyuk joins Scott Hanselman to provide another Azure Cosmos DB update with several members of the Azure Cosmos DB engineering team.[0:00:00...

Real-time streaming now faster, easier with Confluent Cloud on Azure

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ramya Oruganti shows Scott Hanselman how much faster and easier it is to provision Confluent Cloud resources directly from Azure.  Ramya also shows a...