The Podcast from Beyond The Corner Office

Podcast 004: Podcast from Beyond the Corner Office

Jonathan Gardner — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 19:00:14 +0000

https://jgardner04.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/004podcast-mixdown-1_01.mp3

Azure Updates

Azure Data Lake reaches Public Preview

Data Lake is made up of 2 parts, analytics and storage. The analytics portion is based on Apache YARN and supports Azure Active Directory access. The service is only billed while jobs are running against the analytics engine. The storage prtion is based on HDFS.

U-SQL

U-SQL was designed to ease the learning curve for Big Data and is based on SQL and C#.

Dynamic Data Masking is GA

Azure SQL V12
Limit access to sensitive data in the database on-the-fly
No need to modify database procedures or application code
Supports Azure Active Directory authentication and groups

Azure Backup support for Load Balanced and Encrypted VMs

VMs that are in a load balanced config can now be backed up
Encrypted VMs using CloudLink

General Discussion

Extreme Ownership

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Podcast 003: Podcast from Beyond the Corner Office

Jonathan Gardner — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 19:00:50 +0000

https://jgardner04.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/podcast003-mixdown-1_01.mp3

Azure Announcements

Azure Cloud Switch

Software for running network devices like switches

Cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking build on Linux

We effectively made our own distro of Linux

Uses Switch Abstraction Interface specification to share across hardware platforms

Docker Swam Clusters on Azure

Uses Azure Resource Manager Templates to deploy Docker Swam cluster

Swam is Docker’s native clustering tool that makes multiple Docker Engines a cluster but makes it look like a single engine.

Three swam manager VMs are created to ensure the control plane is highly available.

Integration of Power BI with Azure SQL Data Warehouse

AzureCon 2015 Announcements

Storage

Exposing file shares using SMB protocol

Added support for SMB 3.0

File Explorer functionality in the Azure Portal

Metrics

HDInsight on Linux

Azure IoT Suite is available for purchase

Azure Document DB raises Query Limits

This is really about expanding the number of parameters and joins on a query

Full Support of Cloudera Enterprise on Azure

This means that Impala, HBase, Spark, and Solr components are supported

Support for DS-14 instance types with up to 10 1TB Premium Storage VHDs attached for worker nodes

General Discussion

Architecture changes

Cloud Design Patterns

Architecture Blueprints

The way that we talk about products on our website has even changed: http://bit.ly/1HaZxyo

What I’m Reading

I read a lot of tech articles and information. I feel it is important to keep a balance in authors/style/genre. It helps creativity.

Running Blind: A Jack Reacher Novel

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Podcast 002: Podcast from Beyond the Corner Office

Jonathan Gardner — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:00:49 +0000

https://jgardner04.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/podcast002mp3.mp3

Azure Announcements

General Discussion

Social Media Workflow
Source
- Curation
  - Feedly
- Reading
  - Pocket
- Sharing
  - BufferApp
Engaged Employees and the Customer Experience

Things I like right now

Rode Podcaster Microphone
Epson Workforce ET-4550
- 2 years of ink per fill!
Printers were sent from Hell

Good Resources

What I’m Reading/Watching

Blog: You’re probably doing email introductions wrong.
Video: Gordon Ramsay’s Scrambled Eggs – Hint, you are doing them wrong.

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Podcast 001: The Podcast from Beyond the Corner Office

Jonathan Gardner — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:00:36 +0000

https://jgardner04.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/podcast_001mp3.mp3

Azure Announcements

Azure Backup Update
- Improved data disk limit on VMs – 16 data disks in addition to the OS disk
- Support for long-term retention – up to 99yrs
- Enhanced monitoring and reporting
- - Downloadable summary report gives a snapshot of backup and restore operations on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
  - Every backup job now includes the backup data size transferred value
  - Export job functionality provides detailed information on jobs triggered in specified time frames and can be customized
Row-Level Security for SQL Database is GA
- Restricting access to financial data based on region and role
- Multi-tenant application can only access their rows of data
- Reporting based on position.
Mobile Apps update
- Changes to the Mobile App Portal
- - streamlining the experience
  - - put mobile and web experience together
Azure SQL Database Updates
- New pricing tiers for Elastic Database Pool
- - Basic and Premium
  - - Basic Elastic Database Pools are great for light-usage SaaS scenarios. Basic Elastic Database Pools allows individual databases performance bursts up to 5 eDTUs.
    - Premium Elastic Database Pools are designed for databases that require the highest performance per database. Premium Elastic Database Pools allows individual database performance bursts up to 1,000 eDTUs.
  - Easy migration between database tiers for individual items.
  - - If customer grows it can be upgraded.
- Higer-end scale options for SQL database

General Discussion

Project Nami – WordPress for SQL Server
Containerization
- Form of Operating-system-level virtuliiztion
- - Allows for multiple isolated user-space instances
- Benefits
- - Configuration definition to standardize deployment of applications
  - Can be run on an already virtualized environment no double inception issues.
- Vendors/Technologies
- - Docker – Azure
  - Kubernets (coo ber neties) – Google built on top of Docker
  - Amazon EC2 Container Service – AWS Management Service for Docker
  - OpenVZ
  - Viiruozo
  - VMWare ThinApp

Good Resources

Azure Partner Readiness Catalog
- Crowdsourced content
- Updated regularly

Things I like right now

What I’m reading

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