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SONIA: Hi, Julia. Thank you so much
for joining me.
JULIA LIUSON: Hi, Sonia. Great to see you.
SONIA: Awesome. Let's get started.
What Build announcements are you most excited about?
JULIA LIUSON: My team has many
announcements at
this particular Build and there are
three I'm really partial to.
The first one is the Microsoft Dev Box.
The second one is the general availability
of Azure Container Apps,
and the third one is the general availability
of Java screen apps enterprise tier at Dell conferences.
With the Microsoft Dev Box,
the thing I'm really excited about is that
it's a new Cloud service that provides
developers and their team with self-service
access to high-performance workstations in the Cloud,
and developers can preconfigure
the workstation with any tools,
the library framework for their specific project,
all while maintaining security and corporate governance.
It really reduces new developer
onboarding from potentially days to minutes.
It allows developers to easily
work on other projects and try new tools.
I'm super excited about that.
Then for Container Apps, it allows
you to run microservices
and containerize applications on
a serverless container platform.
Then one of the really nice things about it
is that it's built on the foundation of a set
of powerful open source technology that delivers
the same microservices benefits as Kubernetes,
but it's in a fully managed app hosting option.
As a developer, that means you don't have to
worry about Kubernetes infrastructure,
you don't have to worry about the hosting services,
you just have to go focus on developing
the business operation and the code that you can write.
Then with Java screen apps,
this is a close collaboration.
We have VMware, it solves
the challenges of running spring applications,
a Cloud scale also in
Kubernetes and very similarly for developers,
you don't have to worry about
application lifecycle,
monitoring, container intricacies.
You can just work on again,
developing the business logic that you can work on.
Those are the things I'm really excited about.
SONIA: That's awesome. Great.
We'd love to know specifically how
are these announcements relevant to Java developers?
JULIA LIUSON: Java Developer has been a huge focus for my team.
I know there's a keynote coming up in a little bit.
Really focus on Java.
For developer, if you think about
a Microsoft Dev Box announcement as a Java Developer,
you probably want to provision
your own intelligence or eclipse IDs,
you want to try to know
the Java run-time and
whichever version you're currently using are,
and then you can configure the entire thing
exactly to what your development team standards are.
Then you can preserve
those standards in the Cloud and when
you have a new developer joining
the new dev boxes shows up,
immediately like that. Isn't that amazing?
Then for Container Apps,
you can use Java,
you can use.NET,
you can use Node to deploy
your Java applications in Container Apps
with the same benefit I just talked about.
Obviously, Sprint App is all about Java.
Sprint is the most popular Java microservices framework.
The Sprint Apps Enterprise is really
dedicated to our Java Developers.
SONIA: That's awesome. That's wonderful
You had mentioned VMware,
how is Microsoft working with
partners in the open-source community?
Can you tell us a little bit more there?
JULIA LIUSON: Yeah. We had been spending
so much time working with a lot of different partners.
Even in this particular Build,
we have a set of big announcement
with our partner community.
Sprint App is a great example
of our collaboration with VMware.
Not only we co-developed
the Sprint App Services
and we also cooperate it together.
That means that our Java Developers will get
the product support services from
both VMware and Microsoft
together to fully support their needs.
We're also making an announcement with F5 to
have Nginx service that is built by F5.
On Azure, it will really help migrate or extend
Java workload into the Cloud from the on-prem solutions.
Very frequently people use
Nginx for their load balancing needs, etc.
Then for Nginx,
this is another close partnership between
F5 and Microsoft in developing the solution together.
It gives developer almost the
needed experiences in Azure with
Azure portal experiences and CLI access.
Then we also have a very similar story with Dynatrace.
Developers can deploy Dynatrace with
one-click provisioning and
configuration our Azure portal,
also Estonia security and
so it's a very native experience.
These are just some examples of how we're working with
partners to give our
customers the best experiences on Azure.
SONIA: I love it. Awesome.
This is great information, Julia.
Thank you so much for being here today.
JULIA LIUSON: Thank you, Sonia.
Nice talking to you.