Channel 9

This week, James is joined by friend of the show Marc Mercuri, Program Manager on the Azure Blockchain Development Kit Team, who introduces us to the world of blockchain. He shows us a full end to end scenario of why and how you would use blockchain in applications. He then walks us through the new Azure Blockchain Development Kit that simplifies development using blockchain for web and mobile with some fantastic Xamarin mobile apps.

• Block Talk on Channel 9
• Azure Blockchain Development Kit
• Azure Blockchain Workbench
• Find James on: Twitter, GitHub, Blog, and his weekly development podcast Merge Conflict.
• Follow @JamesMontemagno
• Never Miss an Episode: Follow @TheXamarinShow

As a XAML developer, you may sometimes wish you had the ability to quickly prototype your UI and debug your markup without having to load a project in Visual Studio. This can be a huge workflow boost for designers or even for developers just wanting to try out new ideas. With the release of XAML Studio, we are able to close this grab for creators and also enable much more.

In this episode, Michael Hawker(@XAMLLlama) sits down with Jeremy to introduce us to XAML Studio. He walks us through the experience of editing and inspecting live XAML updates without the need for a build or compile step. We also get to see demos of the debugging experience, the control toolbox, and even how to work with 3rd party controls.

• [02:40] - What is XAML Studio?
• [03:16] - First look at XAML Studio
• [06:33] - What's the scope of XAML Studio ?
• [07:55] - Using 3rd party libraries
• [09:16] - Debugging XAML bindings
• [11:22] - The Alignment Grid.
• [12:52] - What are features might show up next?
• [14:17] - What is the garage?
• [15:48] - Is there support for the visual state manager?
• [16:43] - Exploring the toolbox in XAML Studio 

Useful Links

• Get XAML Studio
• Microsoft Garage Blog
• Windows Community Toolkit

Refined. Genteel. Sophisticated. In this episode, Burke is joined by the great JavaScript connoisseur, Brian Holt to bring you five magical ways that VS Code can work with Azure. These are all the classiest VS Code extensions for the discerning cloud palette.

Links from the show...
Brian Holt on Twitter
Azure App Service Extension
Azure Cosmos DB Extension
Azure Event Grid Extension
Azure Functions Extension
Azure Storage Extension

Learn more at aka.ms/5things-azure
To watch more episodes go to Five Things Playlist
Follow Hosts Burke Holland and John Papa on Twitter

In this video we will talk about our new capability that allows developers to deploy some of our cognitive services as containers! Get ready for the intelligent edge! Process data in the cloud or on device at the edge, the choice is yours!

• Announcement: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bringing-ai-to-the-edge/
• Technical Blog post: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/getting-started-with-azure-cognitive-services-in-containers/
• NEW LUIS in Containers: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/LUIS/luis-container-howto

Armon Dadgar (@armon), HashiCorp CTO and co-founder joins Aaron Schlesinger (@arschles) to school him on all things service meshes. You'll understand what a service mesh actually does, when and why it makes sense to use them, the role of observability, and the differences between data planes and control planes (and what's relevant to app developers).

 Armon makes concepts real with specific examples and analogies, Aaron sees how to easily apply it to his favorite project (Kubernetes, of course) and they sign off with their favorite resources, so you can apply to your apps. 

00:30 What is a service mesh?

01:26 Do I need a service mesh?

02:41 The role of observability

03:36 Control planes vs data planes

05:50 Service mesh + Kubernetes

Learn more

Create a free Azure account

Read more about Console on Azure:

    Part I

    Part II  

Check out Azure Friday featuring HashiCorp

Visit HashiCorp resources: 
    HashiCorp Consul 
    HashiCorp Getting Started Tutorials

Watch our episode on Intrumenting Observability

Follow @ armon

Follow @arschles

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