Rishabh Tewari, a Software Engineer on the Azure team, gives us insights into Project Sirius. This is an upgrade to the Azure software that lights up Accelerated Connections for any resource that uses a network interface. Using a specialized SDN, customers and ISVs can achieve very high number of connections per second throughput across all of their Azure and non-Azure resources.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode497.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ZVgBBrRlZGQ

Resources:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi23-bansal.pdf

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-audit-logging-in-azure-api-management-developer-portal/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/logs/log-analytics-simple-mode

Cale, Evan and Sujit have an insightful discussion with Niko Pamboukas and Siri Velauthapillai about the new Azure Boost feature that is being deployed into the Azure substrate for VMs. They explain the specialized FPGAs and ARM SoCs that provide extreme IOPs for storage and networking and almost no downtime for system upgrades.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode496.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4FPQCAmYrzw

Resources:

Learn more about Azure Boost at https://aka.ms/AzureBoost

Learn about accelerated networking with Boost at https://aka.ms/MANA

Learn about accelerated storage with Boost at https://aka.ms/NVMe

Other updates:

Public preview: Azure Load Balancer now supports Admin State | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-bastion-premium/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/kubernetesmetadataandlogsfilteringpublicpreview/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-balancer-health-event-logs/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-chaos-studio-supports-a-new-pause-process-fault-for-windows-virtual-machines/

Hearing how our ISVs are using Azure in innovative ways is always eye-opening. So, we are fortunate to have Saquib Rashid, a Technical Strategist in the Azure partner organization, give us insights into how Backbase used APIM and the Azure Service Operator to integrate with their customers and backend systems.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode495.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/qFwOoSNpDME

Resources:

• Backbase Grand Central
• Microsoft Customer Story-Backbase seeks to usher in a new era of engagement banking with its Grand Central platform and Azure API Management
• APIM links: Azure API Management - v2 tiers | Microsoft Learn
• ASO links:
• • Azure/azure-service-operator: Azure Service Operator allows you to create Azure resources using kubectl (github.com)
  • Azure Service Operator v2

Other updates:

Public Preview - Azure Compute Fleet | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/copilot/#Usecases

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/gen-ai-simplified-the-azure-ai-extension-now-generally-available/ba-p/4146139

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sql-blog/microsoft-copilot-in-azure-extends-capabilities-to-azure-sql/ba-p/4075408