Azure Lunch

Ivan Towlson (@ppog_penguin) is a programmer, software architect and speaker. He works for Microsoft on the team responsible for Cloud-native developer tools including Helm, Draft, Brigade, Duffel, CNAB and VSCode extensions for Kubernetes. In this interview, recorded in a noisy Hotel lobby during Codemania 2019, we cover a wide range of topics from distributed data structures to functional languages to the history of .NET and why Microsoft is investing so heavily in opensource. Ivan and I...

In this episode of Azure Lunch I chat with Tiago Barbosa, a FastTrack for Azure Engineer based in Portugal, about his ten-year career at Microsoft from intern to Senior Engineer on the Azure Engineering Team. As well as several key announcements at the Microsoft //Build 2019 conference for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and much more. Tiago and I are employees of Microsoft and our opinions are our own. Show links: Azure Kubernetes ServiceAnnouncing the preview of Windows Server containers...

In this fascinating interview, recorded at Microsoft //Build 2019, I talk with Sharad Agrawal, Program Manager at Microsoft about Azure Front Door. This remarkable service fronts some of the largest web properties on the planet, including Xbox, Bing, Teams, and Azure DevOps, serving millions of requests per second. Azure Front Door is now generally available to all customers, offering a truly global Layer-7 Load-balancer with Web Application Firewall, DDOS protection, automatic SSL...

At Microsoft //Build 2019 I spent time talking to some of the people who build the products and services that run on Azure and on Windows. In this Build Special I combine two interviews; the first with Dan Rosanova, Group Program Manager for Azure Messaging, and the second with Craig Loewen, Program Manager for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). But first let's hear Dan Rosanova talk about two of the amazing messaging services provided by the Azure Platform: Azure Service Bus and Event...

Divya Sangar started her career in Fiji doing Dialup Internet and PABX installations (when we used to connect customers by hand, crimping on to the MDFs). Now she works on one of the largest private owned fibre networks in the world, the Microsoft Azure Global Network. In this episode Divya takes us on her journey from Network Engineer to Global Networking Blackbelt, unraveling mysteries along the way of this fascinating area of computing that enables distributed services to operate at truly...

In this episode I have the good fortune to spend some time with Chimène Bonhomme - A Data Scientist and Technical Solutions Professional at Microsoft New Zealand. Chimène lists a Masters of Information Technology, Business Intelligence and Data Science, as well as a Bachelor of Health Science, Medical and Molecular Biosciences as two of her many amazing achievements. In this episode I ask Chimène for her perspective on Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, asking the...

Azure Lunch podcast had an unplanned outage a few months ago while we took time adjust to a couple of pretty big changes. In this new "Series 2.1" we reboot with a new show, a new sponsor, and best of all lots of amazing guests. Daniel has been lucky enough to travel across the world to Microsoft //Build 2019 and to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. As well as other events at home in Auckland, NZ. In this trailer we feature snippets from interviews with Microsoft Architects,...

In this episode Dan picks Matt's brain on "Serverless" and what is in a name - what does Serverless really mean? And where are all the servers? In this wide-ranging talk we discuss which workloads suit Serverless technologies, common programming languages and frameworks including the new Azure Functions Runtime 2.0, and the radidly expanding range of services that fall into the serverless category: Azure Functions, Open FaaS (Functions as a Service), Serverless Databases (!) and global...

We kick off the 2019 season with a quick review of what we have been up to over the (NZ) summer break, skilling up with Microsoft/Learn and Dan has a report from Seattle. We talk private networking with PaaS, Network infrastructure at a global scale and how this enables amazing services like Azure Front Door and Cosmos DB. And wrap up with what we have planned for this Season 2 of Azure Lunch! Show links: Azure Architecture CentreMicrosoft LearnAzure Front DoorAzure Cosmos DBAzure...

In this bumper end-of-year episode Matt Simpson and Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, wrap up 2018 with their favourite Azure announcements and make some predictions for the year to come. We also talk Data, Compute and Messaging Futures including Apache Kafka on Azure Event Hubs, Azure Cosmos DB multi-master writes, Dead letter and retry policies in Azure Event Grid and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubCloud practice playbooksAzure...

In this episode Matt Simpson and Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, talk to Vishesh Oberoi, Program Manager at Microsoft, about the evolution of Conversational AI, developing Chat bots, some of the considerations when designing an SDK and much more! > Apologies for the occassional glitches in this recording 😕 Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubCloud practice playbooksAzure Lunchtime MeetupMicrosoft Bot FrameworkBot Builder SDKBot authentication sample (C#) Azure...

In this episode Matt Simpson and Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, are reunited to quickly cover what has been keeping them busy lately, including .NET Core, .NET Application Architecture, the Visual Studio 15.9 release, Web Assembly, Blazor and more! Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubCloud practice playbooks.NET Application Architecture - Reference Apps (including eShop on Containers)The Art of Unit Testing by Roy OsheroveMicrosoft Bot FrameworkVisual Studio 2017...

In this episode Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, talks to Ben Chartrand a Platform Development lead at Timely about Azure Functions v2, Cloudflare Workers and his favourite Cloud architecture patterns for economy and scale. Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubDownload the Cloud Practice PlaybooksAzure FunctionsCloudflare workersDownload the Cloud Application Architecture Guide Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant....

In this episode Matt Simpson talks to Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, about his recent Operating Azure at Scale talk at the Auckland Azure Lunchtime meetup. How did a software developer become so passionate about governance? What has been the evolution of Azure Governance from a field engineer's perspective? And how do the new Azure Blueprints and Policy features apply to PaaS workloads? Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubCloud practice playbooksOperating Azure at...

It's really easy to get started quickly and go fast with Azure. But what happens when the business starts asking for compliance, security and cost control? In the past this has meant slowing down and implementing large and complex governance frameworks. But now you can have control and go fast with a suite of Azure Governance services and features that were announced at Ignite 2018: Azure Blueprints, Resource Graph, Management Groups and Azure Policy (ARM Policies). In this talk, Daniel...

In this episode Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, go "SQL Heavy" with some of the SQL Server news from Ignite 2018, including Azure SQL Managed Instances, Azure SQL Hyperscale and SQL Server 2019! Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubCloud practice playbooksUse SQL Database Managed Instance with virtual networks and near 100% compatibilityAnnouncing Azure SQL Database Hyperscale public previewHyperscale service tier (preview) for up to 100 TBWhat's...

This week Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, discuss the Azure DevOps announcement, rave about the recent .NET Conf and nerd out over .NET Standard and Service Fabric Reliable Collections. Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubCloud practice playbooks.NET Conf 2018.NET Conf 2018 Youtube playlistService Fabric and Kubernetes: community comparison Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a kiwi slant. Today's episode...

This week Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, discuss the new reserved capacity pricing model for Azure SQL DB, the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure, and some fun we've been having with Azure Media Services. Show links: Microsoft NZ Partner HubCloud practice playbooksAnnouncing general availability of Azure SQL Database reserved capacityGetting started with the Secure DevOps Kit for AzureAzure Media Services Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and...

This month we take a look at Azure Functions v2, Durable Functions and Event Grid. This recording from the Auckland Azure Lunchtime Meetup includes an overview of the technology, examples of how to create event driven pipelines and lots of demos and code to share.