Azure Right Sizing and Scaling

A deep dive into right sizing Azure workloads and thinking about scaling. Whiteboard and demos.

Whiteboard at https://github.com/johnthebrit/Random...

VM sizes - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
Disk types - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azur...
Check SKUs - Get-AzComputeResourceSku | where Locations -EQ "eastus2"
App Service Features - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pri...

0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:45 Goals for presentation
0:04:30 Scaling basics
0:07:00 Shape of work
0:14:30 Why don't we right size?
0:17:40 Seasonality/variance in load
0:23:48 Scale and triggers
0:30:55 Monitoring Azure resources
0:44:45 Azure Advisor
0:46:08 VM SKUs/shapes and size in Azure
0:50:50 Storage limits
0:54:20 Size of a unit of work
0:55:30 Software cost considerations
0:57:53 SKUs in region checking
1:00:30 Bursting VM and storage
1:06:10 Scaling
1:15:57 Serverless
1:17:40 Single instance?
1:19:40 Azure Cost Management to see where spending
1:22:05 Where to start
1:25:40 Close