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 help you find real-world performance issues in your apps, ground Copilot suggestions with production data, and even help auto-generate PRs with benchmarked code fixes with GitHub Copilot software agent. Watch the live demo and learn how to level up your .NET performance using insights for your running .NET applications on Azure! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:32 - See how Code Optimizations helps improve app performance 03:00 - Demo – part 1 – Review your Code Optimizations on Azure portal 06:20 - Demo – part 2 – Optimize code with GH Copilot for Azure in VS Code 10:16 - Demo – part 3 – Move faster from insights to PR with GH Copilot software agent Recommended resources Check your Code Optimizations recommendations Documentation Feedback Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Jan Kalis | LinkedIn: Jan Kalis Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
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Revolutionize Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery with Azure's Business Continuity Center
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 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) needs across solutions and platforms for various key pillars like manage, monitor, Govern and audit compliance along with ability to perform core actions from centralized place. Recommended resources Azure Business Continuity Center Business Continuity with ABCC Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/x: @SHanselman Azure App Service | Twitter/x: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/x: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/x: @Azure
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Extend Azure App Service with Sidecars
In this session Tulika Chaudharie joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Sidecar feature in Azure App Service and how it helps developers extend their applications with additional functionality. Learn how to run sidecar containers alongside your main app to add capabilities like logging, monitoring, caching, or background processing. Recommended resources Sidecar in Azure App Service Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/x: @SHanselman Azure App Service | Twitter/x: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/x: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/x: @Azure
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Demonstrate features making Azure Cosmos DB even more cost-effective
Rakhi Thejraj joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure Cosmos DB! Azure Cosmos DB has been constantly bringing new features to boost performance and optimize costs. Azure Cosmos DB has optimized the autoscale feature to make it more cost-effective for customers with non-uniform workloads such as highly trafficked primary region and a passive secondary region just for disaster recovery. This breakthrough feature is called Dynamic Scaling. Binary Encoding feature on the other hand has optimized the storage and query costs Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Dynamic scaling 08:47 - Binary encoding Recommended resources Dynamic scaling Blog Dynamic scaling Public Documentation Dynamic scaling FAQ Binary Encoding Blog Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/x: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/x: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/x: @Azure
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Get full-stack observability with the Azure Native New Relic Service
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 apps, infrastructure, and all of your Azure services. Glenn Thomas from New Relic joins Scott Hanselman to talk about Azure’s Native New Relic Service in Azure. Glenn demos how easy it is to get started with New Relic and manage Azure resources directly in the Azure portal. In addition, he provides an overview of how New Relic can help quickly identify and troubleshoot performance issues, including a look at Ask AI in New Relic Observability. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:53 - Getting started from Azure Marketplace 02:27 - Exploring a new service 03:10 - Installing New Relic extension in a VM 04:05 - Accessing your New Relic service with SSO 04:47 - Troubleshooting scenario walkthrough with AI analysis 11:23 - Ask AI in New Relic 14:00 - Wrap-up Recommended resources New Relic's Azure Native Solution on the Azure Marketplace Azure Native New Relic Service Introduction New Relic AI New Relic Errors Inbox New Relic Distributed Tracing Azure Native New Relic Service: Full stack observability in minutes Create a Pay-as-You-Go account (Azure) Create a free account (Azure) Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday New Relic | Twitter/X: @NewRelic Azure Support | Twitter/X: @AzureSupport
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