This week on Azure Friday, we explore how Azure Logic Apps enables developers to build autonomous and conversational agentic workflows. The episode dives into how Agent Loop brings intelligence into workflows, supports multi-agent patterns, and makes it easy to connect agents, people, and enterprise systems — all on a secure, enterprise-ready platform. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Automation with Agents and Workflows 02:20 - Autonomous Agents and Agent loop 05:38 - Demo – IT Operations Agent 06:38 - Demo - Agent with variety of tools 07:57 - Demo – Use native A2A Chat client 09:49 - Demo - On Behalf Of consent flow within chat 13:40 - Demo - Agent observability and traceability 14:35 - Demo - Multiagent patterns 18:20 - wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
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Azure SRE Agent - Less Toil, More Uptime, Maximum Innovation
See Azure SRE Agent transform your DevOps workflow from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability engineering. This demo showcases end-to-end incident management with ServiceNow integration, custom runbook automation, and intelligent source code analysis. Watch as incidents automatically trigger diagnosis, mitigation, root cause analysis, create GitHub tickets, and hand off to coding agents—plus get a preview of scheduled task capabilities that automate repetitive operations, freeing your team to focus on innovation and critical business insights. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 07:51 - Demo: AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis via Source Code Integration 08:27 - Demo: Auto-Generated Dev Tickets in GitHub & Azure DevOps 09:50 - Demo: Seamless Handoff to Coding Agent for Automated Fixes 11:28 - Coming Soon: Scheduled Tasks - Automate Repetitive Work, Focus on Innovation 12:10 - Demo: Post-Deployment Health Checks and Prevention Recommended resources Azure Portal Learn page Public preview blog YouTube Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
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Create intelligent AI agents and resilient apps with Azure App Service
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Jordan Selig to learn about resiliency on Azure App Service and discover how quick and easy it is to add intelligent, connected agents to new and existing Azure App Service apps. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:14 - Zone redundancy on Azure App Service 04:24 - Add agents to your apps 08:17 - Demo 14:58 - Wrap up Recommended resources Blog Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | Twitter/X: @SHanselman Jordan Selig | LinkedIn: /in/jordan-selig/ Azure App Service | Twitter/X: @AzAppService Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
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ACA Dynamic Sessions - The best Azure service you've never heard of
Discover ACA Dynamic Sessions, a versatile, container-based, low-latency compute platform that allows you to execute LLM-generated code securely and with low cold-start latency. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:44 - Background 02:03 - Introduction to Dynamic Sessions 04:15 - Demo: using LangChain with Dynamic Sessions 07:30 - Demo: using Dynamic Sessions with Small Language Models 10:35 - Demo: bring your own container to Dynamic Sessions 14:55 - Demo: MCP 17:26 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Nir Mashkowski | @nirmsk | LinkedIn Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
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Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler
This week on Azure Friday, Scott Hanselman meets with Nick Greenfield to learn about the Azure Functions Durable Task Scheduler. The Durable Task Scheduler is a fully managed backend for orchestrating stateful workflows across Azure compute environments. It powers Durable Functions and Durable Task SDKs with built-in reliability, automatic retries, and persistent state management, which is powerful for long-running, distributed, or event-driven applications. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Durable Functions overview 05:10 - Introduction to the Durable Task Scheduler 06:41 - Start of Demo 10:51 - Wrap up Recommended resources Learn Docs Samples Azure Product page Connect Scott Hanselman | @SHanselman Azure Friday | Twitter/X: @AzureFriday Azure | Twitter/X: @Azure
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About Azure Friday (Audio)
Join Scott Hanselman every Friday as he engages one-on-one with the engineers who build the services that power Microsoft Azure as they demo capabilities, answer Scott's questions, and share their insights. Follow us at: friday.azure.com.
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