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Azure Friday

by Scott Hanselman · English · Tech & Science

Scott Hanselman sits with engineers who build and run Azure services — weekly conversations on new features, best practices and Microsoft cloud.

New episodes: Weekly
Latest: 7 Aug 2026
Language: English

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7 Aug 2026

Deploying Aspire Apps to Azure App Service for Linux

In this Azure Friday episode, Scott Hanselman and Tulika Chaudharie show how to take an Aspire application from local development to Azure App Service for Linux. They demonstrate how to create and configure an Aspire project, deploy its frontend, backend, and dashboard as App Service resources, and use the hosted Aspire Dashboard to understand the running application. They also explore how the Aspire agent integration can help generate the required configuration and simplify the deployment experience. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:45 - Creating an Aspire project 03:35 - Configuring…

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24 Jul 2026
Future-proof Postgres for better performance and scale
See how a single Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server scales read-heavy workloads using read replicas and virtual endpoints — the same pattern OpenAI relies on to run ChatGPT on Postgres. Scott and Paula show a live read workload saturating a primary, then offload it to a replica with a single hostname change, and finish with replicas across Europe staying within milliseconds of the primary. It's read scale-out without sharding or re-architecting your app. Chapters 00:30 - Introduction 01:55 - Why read replicas: read/write asymmetry 03:45 - Architecture: primary, replicas, and…
10 Jul 2026
Turning Coding Agents into an Azure Cosmos DB Expert with the Agent Kit
In this Azure Friday episode, Scott Hanselman and Sajee demonstrate the Azure Cosmos DB Agent Kit — a skill you install with one command that gives your coding agent 100+ Cosmos DB best-practice rules across data modeling, partitioning, query optimization, and SDK usage and much more. Using a multi-agent fitness coaching app as an example, they show how the kit caught a missing partition key filter that was leaking member data across tenants, recommended hierarchical partitioning for multi-tenant scale, and fixed a fan-out query—all before the code shipped to production. Chapters 00:00 -…
26 Jun 2026
Meet Azure HorizonDB, the new Postgres on Azure
Azure HorizonDB is a new Postgres service on Azure built for scale, availability, and performance across any workload. In this episode of Azure Friday, we look at how HorizonDB delivers predictable performance with built-in zone resilience. We also explore new in-database AI features like AI Model Management and AI Pipelines, and walk through the developer experience in VS Code to build, query, and manage efficiently using AI. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:47 - HorizonDB Architecture Overview 02:47 - Performance Demo 03:37 - AI Model Management 04:19 - VS Code Postgres Tools Overview…
19 Jun 2026
Observe and evaluate agents for quality and safety in Microsoft Foundry
Foundry Observability empowers developers to take agents from prototype to production with end-to-end observability. We demonstrate how evaluations, tracing, monitoring, and optimization work together to identify issues, measure quality, and improve outcomes over time. Through a live demo spanning the Foundry portal and VS Code, we showcase a practical workflow for building more reliable, production-ready agents. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:33 - Foundry portal demo 06:58 - VS Code demo 17:43 - Wrap up Recommended resources Observability in Generative AI - Microsoft Foundry Build 2026…
3 Jun 2026
New file share centric management model for Azure Files
The new Azure file share experience is now generally available! In this episode of Azure Friday, we explore how the new management model simplifies the way you create and manage file shares, helping streamline your day-to-day operations. We also walk through the updated portal experience and highlight some of the key benefits of the new file share experience. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 03:38 - Demo on portal 10:20 - Benefits 12:54 - Closing & learn more Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Blog post Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X:…
2 Jun 2026
Anyscale on Azure: Scale Python AI workloads with managed Ray on AKS
Scott Hanselman talks with Omar Shorbaji from the Anyscale engineering team about how Anyscale on Azure scales Python AI workloads from a single notebook to thousands of CPUs and GPUs. Built on Ray, the most widely adopted AI compute engine, Anyscale gives you a unified runtime to build, train, and serve, running directly on Azure Kubernetes Service without the complexity of managing Kubernetes. See a live demo that fine-tunes a vision-language-action robotics policy, with the metrics you need to push GPU utilization higher. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:52 - Ray and the Anyscale platform…
8 May 2026
Azure MCP and Azure Skills
Explore Azure MCP Server and Azure Skills working together to extend AI capabilities across Azure services. In this video, we walk through the developer experience in VS Code, showing how to configure, run, and interact with Azure Skills seamlessly. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - What's Azure MCP 01:58 - Install Azure MCP 05:43 - VS Code User Experience 08:49 - VS Code Demo 14:25 - Azure Skills 18:36 - Wrap Up / Outro Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Azure Skills Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure SDK | Blog: Azure SDK Blog Azure SDK | Twitter/X:…
24 Apr 2026
Azure SRE Agent: End to end agentic operations platform for any kind of toil and at enterprise scale
In this Azure Friday session, we walk through how to get started with Azure SRE Agent and demonstrate how agentic workflows can be applied to real operational scenarios—from help desk tickets to cost analysis and reporting and anything in between. The session starts with context engineering fundamentals, followed by a live demo that shows how memory, personalization, incident management and scheduled tasks come together to reduce operational toil. We wrap up by creating an SRE Agent from scratch and discussing consumption, limits, and best practices. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 -…
17 Apr 2026
Migrate Oracle Workloads to Oracle AI Database@Azure
In this episode, learn how to migrate on-premises Oracle Database workloads to Oracle AI Database@Azure, where Oracle database services run on Oracle Exadata infrastructure located inside Azure datacenters. Then see how, once your database is in place, you can modernize faster by connecting Oracle data to Microsoft Fabric for analytics and building AI experiences with Foundry, Copilot Studio—using familiar Azure tools. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:58 - What is Oracle AI Database@Azure 05:33 - Azure Portal experience 11:30 - Microsoft integrations (Fabric, Foundry) 14:00 - Agentic…
9 Apr 2026
Migrate Oracle Workloads to PostgreSQL Using AI-Powered Tools in the VS Code PostgreSQL Extension
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman talks with Jonathon Frost about AI-enhanced migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL using the VS Code PostgreSQL extension. See how developers can automate schema conversion, transform application code, and validate results using an intelligent, agent-driven workflow. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:36 - Model Hyperparameter Tuning, Agent Orchestration, and Determinism 02:25 - Architectural Overview of AI-enhanced Schema Migration 04:28 - How it is Built on the VS Code Extension for PostgreSQL 04:56 - Self-correction of AI-enhanced Migration 05:59 -…
3 Apr 2026
Next gen General Purpose in Azure SQL Managed Instance - what it is and why it’s faster
Modernizing SQL Server for the cloud doesn’t have to be complex. In this episode, we break down what Azure SQL Managed Instance is and show how the upgraded Next‑gen General Purpose tier delivers faster performance, higher storage, and easier scaling using Azure’s latest storage technology. You’ll also see a quick Azure Portal demo with the new IOPS slider and in‑place performance scaling. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:38 - Overview of Azure SQL & SQL Managed Instance 03:30 - Service tiers in Azure SQL Managed Instance 04:14 - Storage architecture upgrade (Elastic SAN, performance gains)…
27 Mar 2026
No code .NET modernization with Managed Instance on Azure App Service
In this video, Scott and Andrew walk through how Managed Instance on Azure App Service is purpose built to help customers move and improve their applications to Azure without the need for code changes. The video explores how to remove common migration blockers, from file and registry access, and custom installers, to system commands. The video highlights how Managed Instance on App Service can accelerate migration, gain higher performance, efficient scaling and lower TCO. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:20 - Challenges of maintaining and migrating older applications and why they are often…
13 Mar 2026
Deploying Python apps on Azure App Service
In this video, Scott and Nir will go through the simplest way to get started with Python in the cloud. The video explores different deployment approaches and recent changes to the platform to be even simpler. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction by Scott 00:12 - Deploying to App Service with uv 08:12 - Container Terminal Access 09:47 - Summary and where to learn more Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
2 Mar 2026
VS Code for the Web
Get started with VS Code for the Web - Azure to seamlessly run, debug and deploy your applications with no setup! This browser-based VS Code environment allows you to work as you would locally, but wherever you are. Watch this video to see us create an enterprise-grade application, run it and deploy it to Azure within minutes! Chapters 00:30 - Introduction 02:26 - VS Code for the Web - Azure Overview 05:21 - AI Template Entry Point Scenario 06:00 - Microsoft Foundry Entry Point Scenario 08:42 - RAG Chat Application - Enterprise-level Application Scenario 13:52 - GitHub Copilot in /azure…
2 Mar 2026
Harness the power of your data with SQL Server 2025, the AI-ready enterprise database
Would you like to take your search in SQL Server to the next level? In this episode, check out how to use vector search, securely built into SQL Server 2025. #sqlserver2025 #sqlai Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:10 - Evolution of SQL 02:44 - Intelligent searching with SQL and AI 06:16 - Model definition 08:55 - Generate embeddings 13:19 - Vector index 15:25 - Vector Search 17:50 - Azure OpenAI 19:36 - Wrap up Recommended resources Announcement Sign-up Learn Docs Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Bob Ward | Twitter/X: @bobwardms Azure Friday | Twitter/X:…
3 Feb 2026
Orchestrate your Agents with Microsoft Agent Framework
Elijah Straight, PM for Microsoft Agent Framework, walks through how to build a multi-agent workflow to automate work using the framework's graph-based orchestration capabilities. Microsoft Agent Framework is a multi-language SDK for Python and .NET that enables building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents with support for streaming, checkpointing, and human-in-the-loop capabilities. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:35 - Visualization of demo 04:11 - PowerPoint to be synthesized 05:03 - Start of demo 10:27 - GitHub 11:47 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs GitHub Connect Scott…
3 Feb 2026
Building environmentally aware API platforms w/ API Management
Are you striving to reduce the impact on the environment for your A(P)I landscape? Azure API Management is here to help! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:37 - Measuring carbon emissions with Azure Carbon Optimizations 03:03 - Carbon-optimized load balancing in Azure API Management 11:20 - Carbon insights & traffic shaping in policies 15:18 - Benefit of carbon-optimization at-scale 17:03 - wrap up Recommended resources Announcement Sign-up Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman: https://x.com/SHanselman Tom Kerkhove | @tomkerkhove: https://x.com/TomKerkhove Azure…
12 Dec 2025
Host remote MCP servers on Azure Functions
Learn how to host secure and scalable remote MCP servers on Azure Functions! Hosting MCP servers remotely allows others to access tools in your servers, not just agents running on your local machine. Azure Functions provides remote hosting for two flavors of MCP servers - those built with the Functions MCP extension or with the official MCP SDKs. In this week's Azure Friday, Lily talks about how to host the SDK flavor with Scott. Check it out if you're looking to build or have already built some servers with these SDKs and are looking for a place to remotely host them! Chapters 00:00 -…
14 Nov 2025
Automating data management tasks with Azure Storage Actions
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Santosh Chandwani to learn how Azure Storage Actions accelerates the automation of data management tasks with a distilled no-code and serverless experience. The episode explores how this fully managed platforms helps you compose and deploy tasks for data protection, cost optimization, compliance and other use cases within minutes. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - Data management challenges 03:17 - Demo – Compose and deploy Storage Actions 17:15 - Demo – Managing Storage Actions 21:46 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure…
7 Nov 2025
MCP tools in Azure API Management: Secure, govern, and scale Your AI workflows
Learn how AI Gateway capabilities let you expose, mediate, and monitor MCP tools for end-to-end AI integration. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 00:57 - What are MCP servers? 01:33 - AI Gateway capabilities in API Management 03:18 - MCP architecture in API Management explained 05:12 - Demo: Create, secure, manage and govern MCP tools 16:25 - Roadmap and resources 18:44 - Outro Recommended resources Learn Docs Labs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
3 Nov 2025
Building agentic workflows with Azure Logic Apps
This week on Azure Friday, we explore how Azure Logic Apps enables developers to build autonomous and conversational agentic workflows. The episode dives into how Agent Loop brings intelligence into workflows, supports multi-agent patterns, and makes it easy to connect agents, people, and enterprise systems — all on a secure, enterprise-ready platform. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Automation with Agents and Workflows 02:20 - Autonomous Agents and Agent loop 05:38 - Demo – IT Operations Agent 06:38 - Demo - Agent with variety of tools 07:57 - Demo – Use native A2A Chat client 09:49 -…
3 Nov 2025
Azure SRE Agent - Less Toil, More Uptime, Maximum Innovation
See Azure SRE Agent transform your DevOps workflow from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability engineering. This demo showcases end-to-end incident management with ServiceNow integration, custom runbook automation, and intelligent source code analysis. Watch as incidents automatically trigger diagnosis, mitigation, root cause analysis, create GitHub tickets, and hand off to coding agents—plus get a preview of scheduled task capabilities that automate repetitive operations, freeing your team to focus on innovation and critical business insights. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 07:51 -…
21 Oct 2025
Create intelligent AI agents and resilient apps with Azure App Service
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jordan Selig to learn about resiliency on Azure App Service and discover how quick and easy it is to add intelligent, connected agents to new and existing Azure App Service apps. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:14 - Zone redundancy on Azure App Service 04:24 - Add agents to your apps 08:17 - Demo 14:58 - Wrap up Recommended resources Blog Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Jordan Selig | LinkedIn: /in/jordan-selig/ Azure App Service | Twitter/X: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/X:…
10 Oct 2025
ACA Dynamic Sessions - The best Azure service you've never heard of
Discover ACA Dynamic Sessions, a versatile, container-based, low-latency compute platform that allows you to execute LLM-generated code securely and with low cold-start latency. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Background 02:03 - Introduction to Dynamic Sessions 04:15 - Demo: using LangChain with Dynamic Sessions 07:30 - Demo: using Dynamic Sessions with Small Language Models 10:35 - Demo: bring your own container to Dynamic Sessions 14:55 - Demo: MCP 17:26 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Nir Mashkowski | @nirmsk |…
3 Oct 2025
Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Nick Greenfield to learn about the Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler. The Durable Task Scheduler is a fully managed backend for orchestrating stateful workflows across Azure compute environments. It powers Durable Functions and Durable Task SDKs with built-in reliability, automatic retries, and persistent state management, which is powerful for long-running, distributed, or event-driven applications. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Durable Functions overview 05:10 - Introduction to the Durable Task Scheduler 06:41 - Start of…
25 Sep 2025
Speed Production of Intel. Apps & Agents w/ AI-Ready DB for PostgreSQL
We will see how the new popular PostgreSQL extension for VSCode multiplies productivity of PostgreSQL developers with the power of Copilot. In the live demo we will design database schema, visualize it, find a performance issue in the PostgreSQL query and fix it with the help of Copilot. Finally, we'll build an app to compare breweries between Washinton and Oregon! Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 02:48 - Demo - Connect to Azure PostgreSQL database with EntraID 04:26 - Demo - Design and visualize database schema 07:36 - Demo - Adding geospatial column 10:48 - Demo - Optimizing performance of…
15 Sep 2025
Metadata Security Protocol on Azure Instance Metadata Service
In this video Minnie talks about the Metadata Security Protocol security feature on Azure Instance Metadata Service that helps mitigate security risks by only allowing authenticated applications to communicate with the Host endpoints. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:46 - How Metadata Security Protocol works with Azure Instance Metadata 02:49 - Start of demo 02:54 - Register for feature in portal 03:11 - How to use the feature in portal 04:08 - Inside the virtual machine to check IMDS communication 04:37 - How to check which applications are communicating with different endpoints 05:26 - How…
15 Sep 2025
Protecting Azure Storage with Microsoft Defender for Cloud
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Vamshi Kommineni and Eitan Bremler to explore and demo how Microsoft is helping organizations protect cloud storage data at the core of their applications—by embedding intelligent, built-in posture management, threat protection, and malware scanning directly into Azure Blob Storage through its deep integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:37 - Azure Blob Storage overview 02:15 - Storage Security philosophy - Start Secure and Stay Secure 03:30 - Demo part 1 - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Storage…
15 Sep 2025
Demystifying large migrations into Azure Storage
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Anusha Subramanian to demo Azure Databox and Azure Storage Mover, learning how to demystify storage migrations. See how these Azure tools can help you move petabytes of data easily and quickly to Azure Storage. Moving large amounts of data can be complex, but with the right tools and AI you can further simplify the process. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Guided storage migration experience 04:26 - Next Gen Azure Data Box for offline migrations 06:39 - Azure Storage Mover for online migrations 07:26 - Demo of AWS S3 to Azure blob…

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Scott Hanselman sits with engineers who build and run Azure services — weekly conversations on new features, best practices and Microsoft cloud.

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Language: English
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New episodes: Weekly
Latest episode: 7 Aug 2026
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