The Modern Cloud
summary
High-level demo tour showing concrete tools and numbers: uses Azure Cognitive Services for face, sentiment and image moderation; runs business logic on Azure Functions (serverless) and claims a customer processed a billion IoT events for $40; stores globally distributed data in Cosmos DB with 42 regions, SLAs of single-digit‑millisecond latency at the 99th percentile, and customers reporting hundreds of trillions of transactions per day. Includes a GitHub webhook demo, a cat‑moderation pipeline, Twitter sentiment → Power BI workflow and ASOS retail use.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:57The Modern Cloud
- 3:28Artificial Intelligence
- 5:17Azure Cognitive Services
- 6:03Azure Managed Console
- 7:08RealTime Crowd Insights
- 11:57Different degrees of power
- 13:01Serverless computing
- 15:22Asynchronous code
- 16:03Azure Functions
- 16:37Server Lists
- 16:51Hello World
- 19:40Hello in DC
- 21:45GitHub Webhook
- 22:04GitHub App
- 25:38Show App
- 34:20Logic App
- 42:07Modern Cloud
- 43:37Cosmos DB
- 46:51Programming Model
- 47:28Integration
- 48:21ASOS
- 55:28Global Database
- 57:10Consistency Models
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