Azure DevOps Podcast
314 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Azure DevOps Podcast is a show for developers and devops professionals shipping software using Microsoft technologies. Each show brings you hard-hitting interviews with industry experts innovating better methods and sharing success stories. Listen in to learn how to increase quality, ship quickly, and operate well. Hosted by Jeffrey Palermo and sponsored by Clear Measure, Inc.
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Damian Brady: GitHub Copilot - Episode 306
July 15, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBDamian Brady is a Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. He’s a developer, speaker, and author specializing in DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for four years, and before that, a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a 25-year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, he co-organized the Brisbane .Net User Group and launched the annual DDD Brisbane conference. ...
Developer Experience in Windows 11 with Kayla Cinnamon - Episode 305
July 08, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes - 34.3 MBKayla Cinnamon is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft working on the developer experience in Windows. This includes Dev Home and PowerToys. Kayla formerly worked on Windows Terminal and Cascadia Code, which is the font you all use inside Visual Studio. She holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a concentration in Human-Computer Interaction. She recently was a speaker at the recent Microsoft Build conference. Topics of Discussion: ...
Mitch Denny: .NET Aspire Architecture - Episode 304
July 01, 2024 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBMitch is a Principal Software Engineer on the .NET Cloud team working on .NET Aspire and ASP.NET Core. Previously Mitch has worked on Azure services, the Azure SDK, and Azure DevOps. Topics of Discussion: [2:46] Mitch’s career journey in the Microsoft ecosystem. [5:46] What makes it .NET Aspire vs. .NET8? [6:16] .NET Aspire focuses on seamless integration between app components. [8:18] Making sure the core of Aspire is cloud-agnostic. [10:48] Developer control plane. [11:40...
Étienne Tremblay: Setting up for DevOps properly - Episode 303
June 24, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes - 48.2 MBAs the president of Tegaaa Solutions, a DevOps consulting firm, Étienne helps clients achieve optimal performance and efficiency in their software development processes. With over 30 years of IT experience and 20 years of Microsoft specialization, he has the skills and knowledge to provide tailored solutions for any DevOps challenge. He is passionate about sharing his expertise and best practices with the IT community as a Microsoft MVP for TFS and Azure DevOps since 2006, and a regula...
Martin Hinshelwood: Migration Azure DevOps Server to the Cloud - Episode 302
June 17, 2024 08:00 - 47 minutes - 44.6 MBMartin is a passionate agile leader with a track record of inspiring, encouraging, and igniting momentum. Featured speaker, author, and industry thought leader, Martin has a strong track record of helping organizations build a vision and execute evolutionary and revolutionary change. His deep technical knowledge, business insight, and experience drive impactful change for organizations. Technologist turned agilist, Martin successfully helps organizations decentralize, democratize, and ...
Scott Forsyth: Gen AI or Generative Artificial Intelligence - Episode 301
June 10, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes - 41 MBScott has spent over 25 years in the IT field, working in disciplines such as systems architecture, software development, team growth, and entrepreneurship. He was a Microsoft MVP for 12 years in ASP.NET and IIS. He’s co-authored two books (IIS 7 and IIS 8 Professional), is a Pluralsight author, and has spoken at various conferences, code camps, and user groups. He’s now shifted into the AI space, building AI solutions and supporting others in their AI journey. He’s also co-founding a new st...
Jim Leonardo: Leading Software Teams - Episode 300
June 03, 2024 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBJim has been building solutions for clients in the cloud on Microsoft Azure since 2012 and building solutions in general for 20 years or more. Now, he heads up information technology for biBerk Insurance, overseeing both software development and IT operations. Most of Jim’s experience is in consulting or enterprise with a few forays into product development. Following the path of least resistance, Jim ended up working primarily with Microsoft tools. The tool you know is the usually bes...
Managing A Software Engineering Department: Ted Neward - Episode 299
May 27, 2024 08:00 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBTed Neward is sometimes referred to as “The Dude of Software,” owing to both his remarkable (some say frightening) resemblance to the Jeff Bridges character from “The Big Lebowski,” and his ordination as a Dudeist Minister of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, but he’s also been called the ”Dr. Gregory House of Software,” owing to his tendency to pull no punches when talking about software and how to deliver it successfully. He’s comfortable answering to either title, as well as a few others...
Ted Neward: Managing A Software Engineering Department - Episode 299
May 27, 2024 08:00 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBTed Neward is sometimes referred to as “The Dude of Software,” owing to both his remarkable (some say frightening) resemblance to the Jeff Bridges character from “The Big Lebowski,” and his ordination as a Dudeist Minister of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude, but he’s also been called the ”Dr. Gregory House of Software,” owing to his tendency to pull no punches when talking about software and how to deliver it successfully. He’s comfortable answering to either title, as well as a few others...
Dan Garfield: GitOps with Kubernetes - Episode 298
May 20, 2024 08:00 - 41 minutes - 39 MBDan Garfield is the Co-founder of Codefresh, a CI/CD platform powered by GitOps and Argo now acquired by Octopus Deploy. As the VP Open Source and Argo Maintainer, he works primarily on Argo CD and Argo Rollouts. He helped create the GitOps Working Group and Open GitOps Principles. He helped create the most popular GitOps certification with Argo CD and writes consistently about best practices for GitOps involving Security, Development processes, and scaling. Topics of Discussion: [2:...
Richard Campbell: The Future of Software - Episode 297
May 13, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes - 41.7 MBRichard Campbell wrote his first line of code in 1977. His career has spanned the computing industry on both the hardware and software sides, development, and operations. He was a co-founder of Strangeloop Networks, acquired by Radware in 2013, and was on the board of directors of Telerik, which was acquired by Progress Software in 2014. Today, he is a consultant and advisor to a number of successful technology firms and is the founder and chairman of Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org), a ...
Philip Japikse: Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET 8 - Episode 296
May 06, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40.6 MBAn international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD, and PST, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil has been working with .NET since the first betas, developing software for over 35 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005 as well as a Professional Scrum Trainer. Phil has taken over the best-selling Pro C# books (Apress Publishing), including Pro C# 10, is the President of the Cincinnati .NET User’s Group (Cinnug.org), and the Cincin...
Brady Gaster: .NET Cloud Native - Episode 295
April 29, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 38.1 MBBrady Gaster is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team at Microsoft where he works on Orleans, SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes of making it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud! Topics of Discussion: [2:49] Brady’s career highlights and how throwing parties prepared him for Microsoft. [4:07] History of Microsoft’s publishing tools and their evolution towards cloud-native developme...
Raziel Tabib: GitOps - Episode 294
April 22, 2024 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBRaziel is the Senior Vice President of Codefresh at Octopus Deploy. He is an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, and software developer at heart. He is the Founder of Codefresh and is passionate about accelerating the way software is disrupting our day-to-day life by simplifying the way we deploy applications. Topics of Discussion: [2:23] When Raziel first got interested in making a difference in the industry. [3:05] The role of the software developer has evolved over time. [7:1...
Glenn Condron: .NET Web Development - Episode 293
April 15, 2024 08:00 - 45 minutes - 42.8 MBGlenn is a Principal Product Manager for the App Platform team within the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Glenn was a developer in Australia where he worked on software for various government departments. Topics of Discussion: [2:47] Glenn’s career path. [6:33] The old .NET vs the new .NET. [8:09] .NET was initially Windows-only but is now being rebuilt as open-source, cross-platform software. [9:40] The evolution of .NET. [9:53] ....
Richard Hundhausen: Product Ownership - Episode 292
April 08, 2024 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBRichard Hundhausen helps software organizations and teams deliver better products by understanding and leveraging Azure DevOps and Scrum. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Scrum Developer, author of Professional Scrum with Azure DevOps (MS Press), and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Scrum framework. As a software developer and consultant with over 30 years of experience, he understands that software is built and delivered by people and not by processes or tools. Topics of...
Mads Torgersen: The Latest in C# - Episode 291
April 01, 2024 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48.7 MBMads is the Lead Designer of the C# language and has been at Microsoft for 18 years. Prior to this, Mads was a professor and contributed to a language starting with J. He was previously on episode 164 of the podcast where he spoke about the latest on C# at the time. Topics of Discussion: [3:40] The serendipitous career path Mads took that led him to C# and Microsoft. [6:17] Where are the high points of where the C# language has gone over the past six months? [7:40] Adding a unifi...
Mark Miller: Voice User Interface - Episode 290
March 25, 2024 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.1 MBMark Miller, is an eight-year C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. He is the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, as well as the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been creating tools for software for almost four decades. On top of all that, Mark also streams live C# and typescript coding and design on Twitch.TV/C...
Richard Lander: Containerization and Linux - Episode 289
March 18, 2024 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBRichard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He’s been with Microsoft since 2000, and working on .NET since 2003! Currently, he’s working on runtime features, docker container experience, blogging, and customer engagement. He’s also part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features. Topics of Discussion: [4:31] Richard talks about the technologies that we should already be using and what we should be looking to adopt in th...
Rockford Lhotka: Philosophy on Architecture - Episode 288
March 11, 2024 08:00 - 50 minutes - 46.9 MBRockford Lhotka is VP of Strategy at Xebia and Chief Software Architect at Marimer LLC. He is the creator of the open-source CSLA .NET development framework, the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a member of the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP programs. Topics of Discussion: [3:36] Rockford’s career path at Xebia and consulting. [5:18] Building frameworks that stand the test of time. [6:38] Changes in the CLSA us...
Jared Parsons: Designing C# and Testing a Compiler - Episode 287
March 04, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBJared Parsons, the Principal Developer Lead on the C# Compiler Team. Everybody tuning in probably uses his code on a day-to-day basis! Jared started at Microsoft 20 years ago as a Developer; moved on to become a Senior Developer; then the Principal Developer on Midori OS; and most recently, the Principal Developer on the C# Compiler Team, which he has been with since 2014. Topics of Discussion: [3:14] Jared talks about his twisty career path. [5:29] What does designing a programmin...
Michael Washington: Azure OpenAI - Episode 286
February 26, 2024 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MBMichael is an ASP.NET and C# programmer who has extensive knowledge in process improvement, AI and Large Language Models, and student information systems. He also is the founder of two websites — AIStoryBuilders.com and BlazorHelpWebsite.com — both fantastic resources that help empower developers. Michael resides in Los Angeles, California, with his son Zachary and wife, Valerie. Topics of Discussion: [3:14] Michael talks about his career path. [5:15] AIStoryBuilders.com. [6:21] ...
Kent Beck: Tidy First - Episode 285
February 19, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.9 MBOriginal signer of the Agile Manifesto, author of the Extreme Programming book series, rediscoverer of Test-Driven Development, and inspiring Keynote Speaker. I read his TDD book 20 years ago. Topics of Discussion: [4:06] What led Kent into extreme programming, and realizing that technical mastery alone is not enough for project success. [6:24] The significance of extreme programming. [9:15] The Agile Manifesto. [10:46] The importance of taking responsibility seriously. [14:0...
Paul Yuknewicz: Cloud Native & Serverless - Episode 284
February 12, 2024 09:00 - 38 minutes - 36.2 MBPaul Yuknewicz is a Lead Product Manager for Azure Developer Experience at Microsoft; he is responsible for the PM team that designs the developer experience for building and diagnosing cloud-native applications for Azure. In his role, he’s very passionate about helping developers succeed in building high-scale distributed applications and building strong collaboration with customers. He has fun learning and challenging the status quo in a breadth of technologies and languages, like Linux, W...
Uncle Bob Martin: Clean Code and How to Do Software Well - Episode 283
February 05, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.9 MBIf you don’t already know Bob, he is a software engineer, instructor, and best-selling author. He is most recognized for developing numerous software design principles and for being a founder of the incredibly influential Agile Manifesto. Bob is the author of a number of Clean Code related books including his latest, Clean Agile: Back to Basics, where he reintroduces Agile values and principles for a new generation of programmers and nonprogrammers alike. In the past, Bob was also the editor...
Greg Leonardo: Optimizing Cloud Budgets in Azure - Episode 282
January 29, 2024 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.6 MBGreg is a Cloud Architect that assists organizations with cloud adoption and innovation and is currently a Cloud Architect and the owner of Webonology. He has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. Greg has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is currently the president of TampaDev, a community meetup that runs #TampaCC and various technology events throughout Tampa. Greg holds a certification a...
Andrew Lock: Containers in .NET 8 - Episode 281
January 22, 2024 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBAndrew Lock is a senior software engineer at Datadog, working out of Devon, in the UK. He is a Microsoft MVP, Author of ASP.NET Core in Action, and has an active blog all about his experience working with .NET and ASP.NET Core. Topics of Discussion: [3:08] What is Andrew working on these days? [3:42] The push towards open telemetry in .NET and the ecosystem in general. [4:49] In Andrew’s opinion, open telemetry is ready for use, but there is still much to learn. [6:58] The stat...
Scott Hanselman: Semantic Kernel - Episode 280
January 15, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.2 MBScott Hanselman is a teacher at heart. He speaks all over to whoever will listen. He's written code that you, dear listener, has used. Scott has been blogging, coding, and podcasting a LONG time. He codes, writes, speaks, empowers, promotes, braids, learns and listens - usually not in that order. And he's a Vice President at Microsoft in his day job. You can find him on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Mastodon! His Hanselminutes podcast has surpassed 900 episodes, and his Azure Friday show, ...
2024 Kickoff - Episode 279
January 08, 2024 09:00 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBWelcome to 2024. It’s going to be a great year in .NET, in Azure, and with DevOps. To kick things off, I wanted to review some of the big things you’ll want to look at in 2024. To do that, I’m airing a piece I recorded reviewing the highlights from .NET Conf looking at it from an architectural perspective. There are so many updates, but in this piece, I interpret the architectural thinking you’ll undergo as you implement the new bits. So, Happy New Year, and I’ll roll the piece. Topics...
Jeff Fritz: .NET Conf Recap - Episode 278
January 01, 2024 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.5 MBJeff Fritz is an experienced developer, technical educator, and PM on the .NET team at Microsoft. He founded The Live Coders team on Twitch, and regularly livestreams builds of websites and fun applications. You can follow Jeff for more .NET, .NET Core, and Visual Studio content on Twitch and Twitter at @csharpfritz. Topics of Discussion: [2:00] Jeff talks about how he shifted from programming to teaching. [4:08] Teaching and mentoring led Jeff to an opportunity to join Microsoft a...
Carl Franklin: Why.NET Rocks - Episode 277
December 26, 2023 09:00 - 52 minutes - 49 MBCarl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on modern methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post-production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut. Topics of Discus...
Steve Smith: .NET 8 and Architecture - Episode 276
December 18, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBSteve works with companies that want to avoid the trap of technical debt by helping their teams deliver quality software quickly. Steve and his team at NimblePros have been described by clients as a “force multiplier,” amplifying the value of existing development teams. Steve’s client list includes Microsoft, Quicken Loans, Celina Insurance, and many other satisfied customers. He also offers career coaching to developers through DevBetter.com. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for...
Clark Sell: Developer Education and Networking - Episode 275
December 11, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBFrom humble beginnings as a mechanic who later became a software engineer/architect/now business owner and who has built software for some of the biggest companies on the planet, Clark’s passionately unapologetic on a mission to create the most inclusive, tech-savvy, family-friendly community of geeks on the planet. Fueled by creativity, Clark invests his time partnering with companies on how to foster their communities while helping them solve business problems through innovative technology...
Daniel Roth: Blazor with .NET 8 - Episode 274
December 04, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 41.7 MBDaniel Roth is a Principal Product Manager on the ASP.NET team working on ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and other web features. He has previously worked on various parts of .NET, including System.Net, WCF, XAML, and ASP.NET. His passions include building frameworks for modern Web frameworks that are simple and easy to use. Topics of Discussion: [3:08] Daniel talks about joining Microsoft fresh out of college and shares a brief history of how his career has evolved. [4:10] Working on Blazor...
Maarten Balliauw: Developer Tools - Episode 273
November 27, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.4 MBMaarten loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains and created SpeakerTravel, a tool to help conference organizers. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events. In his free time, he brews his own beer. Topics of Discussion: [4:34] The mindset difference between developing software applications for everyday use versus developer tools, and how i...
Scott Hunter: .NET8 - Episode 272
November 20, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBScott is the Vice President of Product for Azure Developer Experience. He builds all the .NET tools for Azure. Topics of Discussion: [2:20] Scott talks about joining Microsoft in 2007 and a few of his most memorable milestones and moments. [5:55] .NET Aspire [6:46] The 3‒4 items in .NET that are important for developers to focus on. [12:02] Improving.NET performance through AOT compilation. [12:22] Introducing a self-contained application. [19:09] Advancements in .NET techn...
Martin Thwaites: Building Software for Production - Episode 271
November 13, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 39.8 MBMartin Thwaites is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, an o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years of experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders. Topics of Discussion: [2:42] Martin getting his start in testing...
Jeremy Clark: Design Patterns - Episode 270
November 06, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.5 MBJeremy helps developers by sharing his struggles, mostly in technology, but also with being more social as an introvert, understanding learning potential, and playing banjo. He has worked as a corporate developer, as a Chief Improvement Officer at a startup, and as a contract developer. Currently, he teaches developers through online courses, workshops, tech articles, and conference talks. He spends most of his time in C# and has recently ventured into Go (Golang) and Rust (Rust lang) to exp...
Matthew Casperson: Platform Engineering - Episode 269
October 30, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBMatthew has loved technology since his first Commodore 64, and that passion remains to this day. His days have me integrating enterprise platforms with Octopus, writing guides and books for platforms like Kubernetes, blogging, and training my colleagues, testing bleeding edge open source projects, and contributing to various blogs. Matthew is a 5-star published author and has created solutions that Red Hat felt were worthy of being submitted for a patent. CEOs endorse his development s...
Mike Martin: Architecting Azure - Episode 268
October 23, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes - 38 MBMike Martin, an exceptional Senior Cloud Solution Architect and Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. With over two decades of experience in the IT industry, Mike is an expert in coaching and leading teams and architecting, designing, and training systems. As an Azure specialist for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and partners, he is the go-to person for all things related to the Microsoft Cloud Platform and Application Lifecycle Management. Mike is known as the perfect hybrid solution with...
Jeff Julian: IoT with Meadow and Wilderness Labs - Episode 267
October 16, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBJeff Julian is a long-time software developer. He used to run the Geeks with Blogs blogging site when developer blogging was the peak of social media. He’s received multiple Microsoft MVP awards and has spoken at many conferences. He has retired from the software development community and now runs a local farm where he has custom-developed a farm operating system using IoT devices and electronics. Topics of Discussion: [2:55] Some tips to do conferences right. [4:55] What led Jeff ...
Shawn Wildermuth: Web Service APIs in .NET 7 - Episode 266
October 09, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MBShawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a VIC-20 back in the early ’80s. He has been a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight Author, and filmmaker. You can reach him at his blog at Wildermuth.com and he makes films at Twainfilms.com. Topics of Discussion: [5:34] What got Shawn excited about coding? [9:26] How should developers be thinking about just the concept of an API? What are the categories that they should be aware of? [16:04] Shawn’s first steps i...
Jay Harris: Overcoming Tough Problems in Software Projects - Episode 265
October 02, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBJay Harris is a speaker, software consultant, and owner of Arana Software. He has been developing on the web since 1995, when the Blink tag lured him away from Visual Basic 3, and has been awarded as a Microsoft Regional Director, ASPInsider, and Microsoft MVP. Recognizing that the greatest application performance bottleneck is a developer’s time, Jay’s continuing quest is for frameworks, modules, tools, and practices that make developers stronger, fitter, happier, and more productive. ...
Jimmy Bogard: .NET 7 and Azure Modernization - Episode 264
September 25, 2023 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MBJimmy is the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR. Jimmy is an independent consultant based in Austin, TX. Jimmy has received the “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) award every year since 2009. Topics of Discussion: [3:45] How do we modernize old software systems? [4:55] Dividing the modernization process into small steps to minimize dependencies and validate changes along the way. [5:01] Does Jimmy have a preferred sequence of work...
J. Tower: Modernization Strangler Fig Pattern - Episode 263
September 18, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBJonathan, or J. as he’s known to friends, is a husband, a father, and the owner of Trailhead Technology Partners, a custom software consulting company with employees all around the world. He is also a Microsoft MVP in .NET and frequently speaks at software meetups and conferences. He doesn’t mind too much because he loves sharing what he’s learned, and it also gives him an excuse to visit any nearby National Parks, a passion of his, proven by the fact that he's currently made it to 56 of the...
Chris "Woody" Woodruff: Network Programming - Episode 262
September 11, 2023 08:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBChris Woodruff, or as his friends call him, Woody, is a software developer and architect of over 25 years. Woody loves software engineering, especially allowing applications and services to communicate across networks and through Web APIs. He has been a Microsoft MVP in SQL, Data, and C# in the past, along with multiple years of being awarded the AWS Community Builder Award. Woody lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he explores the many breweries in West Michigan and travels with his fami...
Jeremy Miller: Parallelism in Software - Episode 261
September 04, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MBJeremy Miller started his career as a “real” engineer but wandered into software because that looked like more fun. Since then, Jeremy has worked in and led software development teams in the computer manufacturing industry, finance, insurance, health care, and banking industries. Lately, Jeremy has been focused on leading software architecture teams and helping mentor other software architects. Having had roles both as an in-house software architect and as a software consultant, Jeremy has a...
Nathaniel Schutta: Thinking Architecturally - Episode 260
August 28, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 55.1 MBNathaniel Schutta (or Nate) is a software architect focused on cloud computing and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books and appeared in various videos. Nate is a seasoned speaker, regularly presenting at conferences worldwide, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluat...
Bob Walker: Painless Operations - Episode 259
August 21, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBBob started as a .NET Developer back in the early days of .NET 1.1 with the goal of converting ASP pages to ASP.NET web applications. During that time, his career progressed from .NET Developer to Lead Developer, to Architect, to where he is today. As a technical director at Octopus Deploy, he helps solve complex customer problems as Octopus Deploy. As a team, we help answer both technical and non-technical questions. Bob has been a fan of making it easier to deploy software since the early ...
Damian Brady: GitHub Copilot - Episode 258
August 14, 2023 08:00 - 49 minutes - 39.9 MBDamian Brady is a Developer Advocate Manager at GitHub. He's a developer, speaker, and author specializing in DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for four years, and before that, a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a 25-year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, he co-organized the Brisbane .Net User Group and launched the annual DDD Brisbane conference. ...