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 are employees of Microsoft and our opinions are our own. Show links: Microsoft Fast Track for Azure Codemania. A conference for developers. Heather Miller. What happened to distributed programming languages? Visual Studio Code Kubernetes Tools F# for C# Programmers by @ScottWlaschin dotnet/coreclr issue #23466: Nullable: System.Object What's new in TypeScript? by Anders Hejlsberg in 2016 Microsoft Terminal - GitHub Azure Kubernetes Service Microsoft Fast Track for Azure From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and his guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Service Announcing the preview of Windows Server containers support in Azure Kubernetes Service Create and manage multiple node pools in AKS Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift Microsoft Fast Track for Azure From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and his guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 certificate management and much more. Sit back and enjoy as Sharad takes us deep into this service and the Microsoft global network that powers it. As always, Sharad and I are employees of Microsoft and our opinions are our own. Show links: What is Azure Front Door Service? Microsoft global network Microsoft Fast Track for Azure From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and his guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Hubs, including recently announced Availability Zone (AZ) support and Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka. Next we hear from Craig Loewen from the Windows Subsystem for Linux team - yes, you heard right! For three years now Microsoft have been shipping a Linux Subsystem in Windows 10 which means you can use many Linux commands at the command line inside Windows. Pretty mind-blowing stuff in 2016! But now that all seems par for the course as at Microsoft //Build 2019 we announced that, this year, we will ship a full Linux Kernel in Windows 10 as part of the major improvements in the next version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux - WSL2. Here's Craig to tell us all about it. Show links: What is Azure Service Bus? Azure Event Hubs — A big data streaming platform and event ingestion service Use Azure Event Hubs from Apache Kafka applications Apache Kafka Azure Service Bus and Azure Event Hubs expand availability Windows Subsystem for Linux WSL 2 is now available in Windows Insiders Microsoft Fast Track for Azure From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and his guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 global scale. We also talk about the recently launched ExpressRoute Edge Node in Auckland, which allows New Zealand customers to connect locally to the global Azure network, reducing the costs of internetworking with our Australian Azure Regions and the world. The ExpressRoute Edge Node in Auckland is a first for New Zealand, unlocking new Network Services including Azure Front Door, ExpressRoute Global Reach and Virtual WAN. Show links: Azure ExpressRoute Divya speaking at the Auckland Azure User Group about the new ExpressRoute Edge Node in Auckland Announcing the new ExpressRoute Edge Node in Auckland, New Zealand Azure Global Network How Microsoft builds its fast and reliable global network Azure Front Door - Global HTTP Load balancer and app accelerator ExpressRoute Global Reach - Connect on-premises networks to Microsoft Cloud Virtual WAN - Simple, unified, global connectivity and security Microsoft Fast Track for Azure From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Divya Sangar are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 question: How much data science is "enough to be dangerous"? Show links: Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio Microsoft AI School Data Science Virtual Machines on Microsoft Azure Deep Learning with Python by François Chollet (O'Reilly) AI for Good with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Seeing AI - Talking camera app for those with visual impairment Microsoft Soundscape - A map delivered in 3D sound Turing test (Wikipedia) With great power comes great responsibility (Wikipedia) Microsoft Fast Track for Azure From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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, Engineers, Program Managers and Specialists, showcasing just a few of the people that work hard every day to make Microsoft Azure awesome: Tiago Barbosa, FastTrack Engineer, Azure Engineering Chimène Bonhomme, Technical Solutions Professional at Microsoft NZ. Full interview in S2E03. Dan Rosanova, Group Program Manager, Azure Messaging. Craig Loewen, Program Manager, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Sharad Agrawal, Program Manager, Azure Front Door. Chris Reddington, FastTrack Engineer, Azure Engineering. Kumar Srinivasamurthy, Group Engineering Manager, Bing. Ivan Towlson, Software Engineer, Cloud Native Team. Divya Sangar, Technical Solutions Professional, Azure Networking. Full interviews with each of these guests are coming up next on the Azure Lunch Podcast, so make sure you subscribe. Show links: Microsoft Fast Track for Azure Microsoft //Build 2019 From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world. Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 platform services that present as "serverless" including Cosmos DB, Azure Event Grid, Event Hubs and more! Show links: Azure Architecture Centre Create serverless applications (learning path) on Microsoft/Learn An introduction to Azure Functions What are Durable Functions? Serverless to the Max: Doing Big Things for Small Dollars with Cloudflare Workers and Azure Functions (TroyHunt.com) Azure Cosmos DB Azure Lunchtime Meetup Microsoft NZ Partner Hub Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. This episode is sponsored by the Azure Architecture Center. For the best advice on Architecture styles, Technology choices and Design principles for the cloud, including the five pillars of Software quality, checkout the Azure Application Architecture Guide at aka.ms/architecture. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Centre Microsoft Learn Azure Front Door Azure Cosmos DB Azure Lunchtime Meetup Microsoft NZ Partner Hub Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. This episode is sponsored by the Azure Architecture Center. For the best advice on Architecture styles, Technology choices and Design principles for the cloud, including the five pillars of Software quality, checkout the Azure Application Architecture Guide at aka.ms/architecture. Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Hub Cloud practice playbooks Azure Lunchtime Meetup Use Azure Event Hubs from Apache Kafka applications Global data distribution with Azure Cosmos DB Azure Event Grid - Dead letter and retry policies Scaling with Service Fabric Mesh | Azure Friday Microsoft Learn Azure Architecture Center YOW! 2014 Fred George - Implementation of MicroService Architecture (Video) YOW! 2014 Fred George - Implementation of MicroService Architecture (Slides) Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Hub Cloud practice playbooks Azure Lunchtime Meetup Microsoft Bot Framework Bot Builder SDK Bot authentication sample (C#) Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen, Matt Simpson and Vishesh Oberoi are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Hub Cloud practice playbooks .NET Application Architecture - Reference Apps (including eShop on Containers) The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove Microsoft Bot Framework Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 Release Notes Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Hub Download the Cloud Practice Playbooks Azure Functions Cloudflare workers Download the Cloud Application Architecture Guide Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. This episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen is an employee of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are his own and not an official company statement.

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 Hub Cloud practice playbooks Operating Azure at Scale (meetup page) Operating Azure at Scale - video Operating Azure at Scale - slides and notes Deep dive into Implementing governance at scale through Azure Policy (Ignite 2018) Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Larsen (Technical Evangelist at Microsoft) will demonstrate the new Azure Governance features in the Azure Portal and CLI (Command line interface), and how to quickly implement pragmatic and sensible policies and controls that keep the business happy without slowing developers down. These great new features have drawn from field experience with some of Azure's largest customers, so that everyone can benefit from the right amount of control and go fast. Show links: Meetup page Slides and notes Azure Governance Azure Governance deepdive - Ignite 2018 Architecting Security and Governance Across your Azure Subscriptions - Ignite 2018

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 Hub Cloud practice playbooks Use SQL Database Managed Instance with virtual networks and near 100% compatibility Announcing Azure SQL Database Hyperscale public preview Hyperscale service tier (preview) for up to 100 TB What's new in SQL Server 2019 Ignite 2018: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale (Video) Download the Microsoft SQL Server 2019 technical white paper Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Hub Cloud practice playbooks .NET Conf 2018 .NET Conf 2018 Youtube playlist Service 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 is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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 Hub Cloud practice playbooks Announcing general availability of Azure SQL Database reserved capacity Getting started with the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure Azure Media Services Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.

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.