In this bumper end-of-year episode Matt Simpson and Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelists at Microsoft, wrap up 2018 with their favourite Azure announcements and make some predictions for the year to come. We also talk Data, Compute and Messaging Futures including Apache Kafka on Azure Event Hubs, Azure Cosmos DB multi-master writes, Dead letter and retry policies in Azure Event Grid and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

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Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub

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Daniel Larsen and Matt Simpson are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.