Podcast 001: The Podcast from Beyond the Corner Office
- Author
- Jonathan Gardner
- Published
- Tue 15 Sep 2015
- Episode Link
- https://beyondthecorneroffice.com/2015/09/15/podcast-001/
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
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire
- Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
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