Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show (Audio) - Channel 9: Recent Episodes

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In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Kirill Gavrylyuk, a Principal Engineer working on Cosmos DB. Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model data service, and Kirill takes us through the key new concepts of the service and a very interesting demo. We also have a note at the end, as this is our last Cloud Cover show episode.

Links from the show:

• [00:39] - Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB
• [00:58] - Scenario - Moving a MEAN app using Mongo DB to Cosmos DB
• [04:37] - Creating a CosmosDB account in the Azure Portal with different APIs
• [06:52] - Moving the data from MongoDB to CosmosDB and updating the MEAN app
• [09:52] - Using Data Explorer to work with the Mongo API of CosmosDB data
• [11:55] - Replicating data globally
• [16:00] - Five levels of consistency settings
• [18:27] - Capacity and throughput configuration
• [27:00] - Quick note - last Cloud Cover episode!!
• Welcome to Cosmos DB

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In this episode Chris Risner and Thiago Almeida are joined by Bahram Banisadr, Program Manager focusing on Event Grid. Event Grid is a new service which enables developers to build event based programming. Events could be anything within Azure such as a blob being created in Blob Storage, a VM starting, and much more. By subscribing to events, you're applications can be notified whenever these events occur. You're also able to create your own custom events which can then be subscribed to.

Links from the show:

• [01:10] - Event Grid Overview
• [02:22] - Basic Concepts
• [10:02] - Scenarios
• [15:45] - Custom Event Demo
• [26:55] - Event Grid in the Azure Portal
• [27:55] - Available Services
• Introducing Azure Event Grid
• Event Grid landing page
• Event Grid quick starts

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In this episode Chris Risner and Noel Bundick are joined by Sean McKenna, Product Manager in the Azure Compute Team focused on Azure Container Instances. Azure Container Instances is a new service from Azure which makes it very easy to spin up containers in the Azure cloud. Primary features of ACI include no VM management, per-second billing, user defined resource (CPU and Memory), and image deployment from DockerHub and Azure Container Registry. Using the ACI Connector for Kubernetes, you're even able to use ACI as a place to deploy containers as part of your Kubernetes orchestration.

Links from the show:

• [00:46] - Introductions to Azure Container Instances
• [05:14] - ACI Connector for Kubernetes
• [09:04] - Deploying to ACI via Azure Cloud Shell
• [17:34] - Using the ACI Connector for Kubernetes
• Azure Container Instances Connector for Kubernetes on GitHub
• Announcing Azure Container Instances
• GitHub repo for filing issues with ACI
• ACI Tutorials
• ACI on User Voice
• Running Minecraft on ACI

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