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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Episodes
Bob Ward on SQL Edge to Cloud - Episode 162
October 11, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by Bob Ward, a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data team. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 27+ years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2019, including Azure SQL. He is a well-known speaker on SQL Server and Azure SQL; often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and specialized topics. Additionally, he has a popular web series online, called “Azure SQL 4 Beginners.” In this episode, Bob speaks about SQL Edg...
CyberSecurity Awareness Month with Troy Vinson - Episode 161
October 04, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by Troy Vinson; a Principal Software Architect at Clear Measure as a CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional.) He is an experienced leader, architect, and problem-solver in Information Systems Security and Software Development technologies and has spent the majority of his career integrating computer science, information science, and cognitive science to assist in software development and the management of information. With October being C...
Azure SQL Database with Anna Hoffman - Episode 160
September 28, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBToday, Jeffrey is joined by Anna Hoffman; a Data & Applied Scientist and Program Manager on Microsoft's SQL Engineering team. Anna is also the host of the popular Azure SQL video show, Data Exposed, and a contributor to the recently published book, Practical Azure SQL Database for Modern Developers: Building Applications in the Microsoft Cloud. In this episode, Anna shares her insights and advice on Azure SQL Database. She speaks about the upcoming features and exciting news coming out...
Joe Guadagno on the Latest in Azure DevOps - Episode 159
September 20, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by Joe Guadagno! Joe is a Director of Engineering at Rocket Mortgage, the nation’s largest mortgage lender based in Detroit, Michigan. He has been writing software for over 20 years, has been an active member of the .NET community, and has served as a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than ten years. At Rocket Mortgage, Joe leads three software development teams building and modernizing our internal services. He has spoken through the United States and international...
Daniel Roth on Web Development with .NET 6 - Episode 158
September 13, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBDaniel Roth is a program 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. And his passions include building frameworks for modern Web frameworks that are simple and easy to use. Daniel was last on the podcast over two years ago in episode 47 to discuss Blazor DevOps. In this episode, he and Jeffrey discuss web development with .NET 6.0. He shares the high...
Konstantin Dinev on Multi-Team DevOps - Episode 157
September 06, 2021 08:00 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBIn today’s episode, Jeffrey is joined by Konstantin Dinev, the Director Of Product Development at Infragistics, Product Lead for Ignite UI, co-organizer of ISTA Conference, and the founder of Bellum Gens. In this conversation, Konstantin speaks about his role at Infragistics as the Director of Product Development and how he manages multiple teams that deliver multiple applications. He shares how he maintains his teams’ productivity while delivering consistent quality, the types of tes...
Rob Reynolds on Automation with Chocolatey - Episode 156
August 30, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBThis week, Rob Reynolds, the founder and CEO of Chocolatey Software, is joining the podcast! Rob is a developer-turned-founder who has been involved with several highly successful open source projects related to automation in the Windows ecosystem. He has over 10 years of experience in infrastructure automation, modern automation approaches, and agile methodologies. Most of all, Rob strives for simplicity and automation with low-maintenance solutions that solve customer needs. In...
Jason Beres on DevOps for Shipping Libraries - Episode 155
August 23, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week on the podcast, Jeffrey is joined by none other than Jason Beres! Jason is the Sr. Vice President for Developer Tools at Infragistics; the world leader in user interface development tools and experts in User-Centered Design. As a senior software executive, Jason has over 25 years of experience in high-tech with a focus on customer and user experience, and has been with Infragistics for the last 17 of those years. DevOps for shipping code as opposed to shipping applications ...
Dean Guida on the Future of .NET Components - Episode 154
August 16, 2021 23:42 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBJoining Jeffrey this week is the CEO and founder of Infragistics, Dean Guida! Infragistics is the world leader in user interface development tools and experts in User-Centered Design; empowering you to build and style immersive user experiences and rich data visualization in line with business applications across all platforms. Dean Guida shares his insights on the future of .NET components; lessons he has learned having run a software company for over 30 years; his top recommendations...
Continuous Integration Review - Episode 153
August 09, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBIn today’s solo episode, join your host Jeffrey Palermo as he discusses continuous integration. With the ease of setting up triggered builds on build servers (such as Azure Pipelines or GitHub actions), it can be easy to think that once the documentation of the product is followed, we are done — but that's not the case. The DevOps tools currently on the market have gotten really good at making some of the steps easy, but, there are other steps where it's still up to you to put them in ...
Scott Hunter on Preparing for .NET 6 - Episode 152
August 02, 2021 21:18 - 33 minutes - 31 MBThis week, Jeffrey is rejoined by return guest, Scott Hunter! Scott is the Director of Program Management for .NET at Microsoft. When Scott first joined Microsoft back in 2007, he was working on the ASP.NET team. As the Director of Program Management of .NET, Scott and his team build .NET Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, managed languages (C#/F#/VB), as well as the Web and .NET Tooling for Visual Studio. The last time Scott was on the podcast, he and Jeffrey spok...
Amanda Silver on What’s Coming for Developers - Episode 151
July 26, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBJoining the podcast this week is Amanda Silver! Amanda is the Corporate Vice President (CVP) of Product for Microsoft's Developer Division which includes the Visual Studio family of products, .NET, TypeScript, and Azure developer platforms. She has been key to Microsoft's transformation to contribute to open source with the introduction of TypeScript, Visual Studio Code, and the acquisition of both Xamarin and GitHub. She believes that a tight digital feedback loop with zero distance between...
Capers Jones on Software Quality and Productivity - Episode 150
July 19, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by Capers Jones! Capers is a software engineer and prolific researcher and publisher. He's written over 17 books on software engineering, software metrics, and software best practices — covering quality, productivity, and many other topics. He is a founder of Namcook Analytics, which is an international software consulting company where he currently serves as the Chief Scientist. Mr. Jones has spoken at numerous conferences and also advises international governme...
David Starr on Better Engineering Practices - Episode 149
July 12, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBThis week on the podcast, Jeffrey is welcoming an old friend of his, David Starr! David is a Principal Solutions Architect in the Azure Industry Experiences team at Microsoft where he focuses on helping companies bring their solutions to Azure and the Azure Marketplace, becoming Microsoft partners. David is the founder of ElegantCode.com, has served in numerous leadership roles, and has been an early and consistent advocate for Agile workflow and engineering practices. He is a co-host of his...
Richard Lander on the New .NET Platform - Episode 148
July 05, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBRichard is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET Core team at Microsoft. He's been with Microsoft for a total of 21 years, 18 of which have been with the .NET team (since 2003 when the codename was Whidbey!) Richard is truly a mover and shaker when it comes to pushing the .NET platform forward! Currently, he’s working on runtime features and performance, CLI experience, docker container experience, ARM32 and ARM64 support, IoT/GPIO/PWM support, blogging and customer engagement, and speakin...
Laurent Bugnion on Native Client Development - Episode 147
June 28, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by a longtime friend of his, Laurent Bugnion. Laurent is a Senior Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft working with Azure in the Developer Relations team. Prior to joining Microsoft, Laurent was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows development from 2007 to 2017, a Microsoft Regional Director from 2013-2017, and a Xamarin Most Valuable Professional in 2015. He is one of the foremost experts for XAML and C# based development and codes in Window...
Charlie Kindel on Terminal.Gui - Episode 146
June 21, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by Charlie Kindel! Charlie is an American tech executive doing consulting and advising. Formerly, he has held roles with Control4, Amazon, and Microsoft. Much of his career has been spent focused on smart home products. Additionally, he is also the maintainer of Terminal Gui, which is a .NET 5 UI framework for console applications. In this conversation, Charlie discusses the Terminal Gui and highlights some of the cases where it shines. If you’re looking fo...
Data DevOps with the SQL Team - Episode 145
June 14, 2021 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBThis week on the show, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by two special guests, Arvind Shyamsundar and Drew Skwiers-Koballa! Arvind Shyamsundar is a Principal Program Manager on the Azure SQL DB Product Management team at Microsoft. He works to enable customers, partners, and colleagues to excel at what they do best by harnessing the power of data, advanced analytics, and cloud services. Arvind has worked at Microsoft for the last 18 years and was previously a part of the AzureCAT/DataCAT/SQLC...
Real-World DevOps on the MAUI Team - Episode 144
June 07, 2021 08:00 - 41 minutes - 37.8 MBOn today’s episode of the podcast, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by two special guests, Alex Blount and Sweekriti Satpathy. Alex is a Principal Software Engineer Manager on the Customer Engagement Team for the Microsoft Developer Edition, and Sweekriti is a Senior Software Engineer on the same team. In their conversation, Alex and Sweekriti discuss real-world DevOps on the MAUI team, how to get up and running with MAUI, a rundown of the products that the team uses (and how they’re co...
Microsoft Build Recap 2021 - Episode 143
May 31, 2021 08:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBMicrosoft Build 2021 recently concluded (May 25th-27th), so in today’s episode, Jeffrey Palermo is recapping all of the new and exciting announcements that dropped during the virtual conference — and there is a lot! As the largest annual developer conference, there were not only many incredible announcements but a ton of educational sessions and presentations by leaders in the industry such as Scott Guthrie, Scott Hunter, Jeffrey Fritz, and more. In this episode, Jeffrey highligh...
David Ortinau on Multi-Platform App Development Using .NET MAUI - Episode 142
May 24, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBIn this episode, Jeffrey Palermo is speaking with David Ortinau. David is a Principal Program Manager for the .NET Client Apps team at Microsoft, whose team’s primary focus is on Xamarin forms and .NET MAUI. David has been a .NET developer since 2002 and is versed in a range of programming languages. After several successes with tech startups and running his own software company, he joined Microsoft to follow his passion for crafting tools that help developers create better app experi...
Jeremy Likness on Working with Data on .NET - Episode 141
May 17, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBThis week, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by return guest, Jeremy Likness! Jeremy is an internationally selling author, keynote speaker, and professional coder with a personal mission to empower developers to be their best! He has worked on commercial enterprise software for 25 years and specializes in web technology. Currently, he is also a Sr. Cloud Developer Advocate for Microsoft, but previously held roles at iVision, Wintellect, and AirWatch. Last year when Jeremy was on the podcast la...
Customized Build Agents with Ahmed Ilyas - Episode 140
May 10, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBToday’s guest today is Ahmed Ilyas. Ahmed is a previous Microsoft employee and Microsoft MVP who has a lot of passion and enthusiasm to share. He believes in providing best practices and solutions to any customer of virtually any industry and likes to see solutions put in practice. His personal goal for every project is to make sure that clients and customers are happy — but also to make sure that he delivers the best possible solution to them and to enable them to succeed further in their l...
Davide Mauri on Azure SQL for Developers - Episode 139
May 03, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis week on the podcast, Jeffrey is joined by Davide Mauri, a Program Manager in the Azure SQL Database product group at Microsoft. Davide has been working in the IT field since 1997 and was awarded Data Platform MVP status for 12 consecutive years. He started his career as a full-stack and back-end developer, then focused on databases and data science for 15 years while still keeping alive his passion for development (mainly in C# and Python). He then moved to the Internet of Things...
A Special Group Presentation on Blazor Architecture - Episode 138
April 26, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBToday on The Azure DevOps Podcast, Jeffrey Palermo is sharing an exclusive presentation on Blazor Architecture Patterns. Blazor is one of the new frameworks that has a lot to offer and is bringing many unique aspects together. With there already being so many fantastic developer tutorials and how-to’s on Blazor, Jeffrey is instead going to be focusing on an architectural look at Blazor. Specifically, how the architecture works, as well as how you, as a developer, should be thinking about Bl...
Kendall Roden on Microsoft’s Cloud Native Global Black Belt Team - Episode 137
April 19, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBThis week Jeffrey is joined by another podcast host! Kendall Roden is a Senior Cloud Native Technical Specialist on the Global Black Belt team at Microsoft and a co-host of the popular show, The Azure Podcast. Kendall began her Microsoft journey in July 2019 after graduating from the University of Alabama. In her first 2.5 years at Microsoft, Kendall worked in Microsoft Consulting Services, focusing primarily on C# development and app modernization. She then transitioned onto the Premi...
Paul Yuknewicz on Azure Development - Episode 136
April 12, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBThis week Jeffrey is speaking with Paul Yuknewicz! Paul is a Principal GPM on the Azure Dev Experience team and has had a rich, 20-year career with Microsoft. He first started out as a Program Manager in 2000; transitioned to a Lead Program Manager in 2005; became a Principal Program Manager Lead in 2010; a Principal Group Program Manager in 2015; and most recently, a Principal Group PM Manager in 2016. As the lead product manager for Azure tools and diagnostics, Paul heads the PM team...
Ted Neward on Development Leadership - Episode 135
April 05, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBThis week Jeffrey is joined by a fantastic return guest, Ted Neward! Ted is the Director of Technology Culture at Quicken Loans (where he has held several previous positions at). He is a self-described geek who takes great pride and joy in making other geeks into bigger and better (and hopefully more highly rewarded) geeks. Having recently stepped into a management role, Ted has been looking for more and more ways to leverage his skills as a "force multiplier" across his entire team to not o...
Sudhanva Huruli on Azure Sphere - Episode 134
March 29, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBToday, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by return guest, Sudhanva Huruli! Last time Sudhanva was on the podcast he was a Program Manager at Microsoft and a maintainer on the Open Application Model. Since then, he has transitioned to a different Program Manager role, working on Azure Sphere. Azure Sphere is a ‘comprehensive IoT security solution – including hardware (crossover microcontroller), OS and cloud components for IoT device security – to actively protect your devices, your business an...
Richard Campbell on the History of .NET - Episode 133
March 22, 2021 08:00 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBIn this episode, Jeffrey and Richard are jumping into part-two of their two-part conversation! If you haven’t caught the previous episode, “Richard Campbell on the Humanitarian Toolbox — Episode 132,” be sure to tune into that first before diving into this one! Richard Campbell is an entrepreneur, advisor, and rabid podcaster. He's also a Microsoft regional director, the co-host of .NET Rocks, host of the RunAs Radio, and is a consultant and advisor for a number of successful technolog...
Richard Campbell on the Humanitarian Toolbox - Episode 132
March 15, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBJeffrey Palermo is joined by his good friend and return guest this episode — Richard Campbell! Richard is an entrepreneur, advisor, and rabid podcaster. He's a Microsoft regional director, the co-host of .NET Rocks, host of the RunAs Radio, and is a consultant and advisor for a number of successful technology firms. Additionally, Richard is the founder of Humanitarian Toolbox, an organization design to let developers around the world donate their skills to disaster relief organizations by bu...
Rob Richardson on Database DevOps - Episode 131
March 08, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32 MBThis week Jeffrey is joined by another fantastic return guest — Rob Richardson! Rob is a software craftsman that is building web properties in ASP.NET, Node, Angular, and Vue. He’s a software developer, a community leader, a mentor, and the business owner of Richardson & Sons. Additionally, Rob is a Microsoft MVP; a published author; a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events; and a diligent teacher and student of high-quality software development. In today’s ...
Mark Fussell on Dapr 1.0 - Episode 130
March 01, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBJoining Jeffrey today is return guest, Mark Fussell! Mark works on the Azure Incubations Team and is the Product Manager for Dapr, the Distributed Application Runtime. He has been working at Microsoft for over 19 years and has been a passionate advocate for building microservice-based applications for the last 10 years. He has a proven track record of building innovative computing platforms, running large-scale cloud services, and starting new million-dollar businesses within corporations. ...
Harini Kannan on React Native - Episode 129
February 22, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MBJoining Jeffrey today is Harini Kannan! Harini is a Program Manager in the Windows Developer Experiences and Platform team — a fast-moving and exciting team at Microsoft! Her team’s charter influences a lot of different technologies from WinUI to XAML to WPF to React Native for Windows, and more! Their team connects everything around enabling the Windows native UI stack to be the best, most powerful, and the most modern technology that people can target to build really solid apps for Windows...
Simon Timms on Microservices Architecture — Episode 128
February 15, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by return guest, Simon Timms, to discuss microservices architecture. Simon Timms is a long-time freelance Software Engineer, multi-time Microsoft MVP co-host of ASP.NET Monsters on Channel 9, and also runs the Function Junction Youtube channel. He considers himself a generalist with a history of working in a diverse range of industries. He’s personally interested in A.I., DevOps, and microservices; and is skilled in Software as a Service (SaaS), .NET Framew...
Jeff Fritz on Blazor Webassembly Architecture - Episode 127
February 08, 2021 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBJeff Fritz is joining the podcast today! This is his second guest appearance. He 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. In this episode, Jeff talks about what you’re missing out when it comes to Blazor web assembly and Bla...
James Avery on Optimizing the Engineering Team Structure - Episode 126
February 01, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBJoining the podcast once again is return guest, James Avery! James is the Founder and CEO of Kevel, previously known as Adzerk. Kevel is the next generation of publisher ad serving; offering the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. It's built to be faster, easier to use, and more comprehensive than anything on the market today. James originally started Kevel back in 2010, FTPing files up to an...
James Avery on Optimizing the Engineering Team Structure with James Avery - Episode 126
February 01, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBJoining the podcast once again is return guest, James Avery! James is the Founder and CEO of Kevel, previously known as Adzerk. Kevel is the next generation of publisher ad serving; offering the infrastructure APIs needed to quickly build custom ad platforms for sponsored listings, internal promotions, native ads, and more. It's built to be faster, easier to use, and more comprehensive than anything on the market today. James originally started Kevel back in 2010, FTPing files up to an...
Architectures for 2021 and Beyond - Episode 125
January 25, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBIn this episode, your host Jeffrey Palermo is sharing his top list of the architectures you should be paying attention to in 2021 and beyond. The software development world is changing at a faster rate every year. As we look back, there are architectures, infrastructure, and patterns that have often turned out to be nothing more than fads or distractions in hindsight — resulting in lost productivity, dead ends, and broken promises. To avoid this in 2021, Jeffrey is reviewing a survey o...
Charles Flatt on Learning as a Developer - Episode 124
January 18, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBCharles Flatt is joining the podcast today! He has been a software developer since 1994 and has helped over a dozen organizations succeed on over fifty projects, both small and large. Charles has an unusual breadth of business and personal experience from foodservice and retail to music, business management, hardware installation, and of course, software development. In this episode, Charles talks about his learning as a developer and some of his successes, big lessons, and key takeawa...
Jérôme Laban on Multi-Platform DevOps - Episode 123
January 11, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBThis week, Jeffrey is joined by Jérôme Laban, CTO of the open-source Uno Platform, and a 4x recipient of the Microsoft MVP award. The Uno Platform is a framework that aims to improve the development cycle of cross-platform apps using Windows, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly using Mono and Xamarin. It is also Open Source (Apache 2.0) and available on GitHub. In this conversation, Jérôme shares their DevOps success story and all of the thought that went into creating a complete DevOp...
Sam Nasr on SQL Server for Developers - Episode 122
January 04, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBIn this episode, Jeffrey is excited to be joined by his guest, Sam Nasr! Sam is an IT Consultant and a Sr. Software Engineer with a deep focus on the Microsoft stack of technologies (.Net, SQL Server, Azure). In his role of 12+ years at NIS Technologies, Sam provides consulting services, training, and custom app development to help bring more value to business applications. He is also incredibly passionate about giving back to the community and speaks at many events, conferences, and user gr...
Kendra Havens on Codespaces - Episode 121
December 28, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThis week, Kendra Havens is joining the podcast! Kendra is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the .NET and Visual Studio team. She is incredibly passionate about using technology to empower people and solve the world's problems whether it be technological, business, or people puzzles — and she always loves a good challenge! In her role at Microsoft, she focuses mainly on .NET Tooling and the testing experience in Visual Studio. You may recognize her from videos on Visual Studio, .NET Core, C#...
Maddy Leger on Xamarin in a .NET 5 World - Episode 120
December 21, 2020 09:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBIn this episode, Jeffrey is joined by Maddy Leger, a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Xamarin team! Maddy has been with the Xamarin team since 2018 working on Xamarin tooling. When she first joined Microsoft and worked with the Xamarin team as an intern, she realized the impact that she could have in creating amazing developer tools and frameworks, which inspired her to pursue a role as Program Manager. You can connect with her on Twitter and GitHub @maddyleger1! In Jeffrey an...
Scott Hunter on .NET 5 - Episode 119
December 14, 2020 09:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBScott is the Director of Program Management for .NET at Microsoft. When Scott first joined Microsoft back in 2007, he was working on the ASP.NET team. As the Director of Program Management of .NET, Scott and his team build .NET Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, managed languages (C#/F#/VB), as well as the Web and .NET Tooling for Visual Studio. In this episode, Jeffrey and Scott discuss the announcements that were made at the recent .NET Conf 2020, everything .NET ...
Michael Hawker on the Windows Community - Episode 118
December 07, 2020 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBIn this episode, Michael A. Hawker, AKA ‘XAML Llama,’ joins the podcast to discuss the Windows Community Toolkit and more. Michael is a Senior Software Engineer for the Partner, Analytics, and essential eXperiences (PAX) team at Microsoft. PAX focuses on driving the ISV ecosystem through technical engagement with partners and industry as well as providing essential first-party experiences. Michael is also the maintainer of the Windows Community Toolkit and prior to that, “App Ninja.” P...
Paul Sheriff on What’s New in .NET - Episode 117
November 30, 2020 09:00 - 40 minutes - 73.9 MBToday, Jeffrey is joined by return guest, Paul Sheriff! Paul is a Business Technology Consultant with over thirty years of experience architecting information systems. His expertise is in much demand from Fortune 500 companies. He is a top-notch instructor and a Pluralsight author with over 20+ courses in the library, ranging on topics from Angular, MVC, WPF, XML, jQuery to Bootstrap. He has also published 300+ articles and has authored over 14 books on topics such as C#, SQL Server, and man...
Scott Nichols on the State of Azure - Part 2 - Episode 116
November 23, 2020 09:00 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MBThis episode is part 2 of the interview with Scott Nichols! Be sure to tune in to part 1 first before joining in on this episode’s conversation. Scott Nichols is a Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect, Scott works for the commercial enterprise division serving the west region. He is also the leader of the .NET and the Azure user groups in Boise, Idaho. He started his career in the IT profession in 1993 as a mainframe and web developer. Since then, he has served as a Lead Software Engineer/Sol...
Scott Nichols on the State of Azure - Part 1 - Episode 115
November 16, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBJoining Jeffrey is Scott Nichols, a Sr. Cloud Architect at Microsoft, to discuss the state of Azure. As a Sr. Cloud Solutions Architect, Scott works for the commercial enterprise division serving the west region. He is also the leader of the .NET and the Azure user groups in Boise, Idaho. Scott started his career in the IT profession in 1993 as a mainframe and web developer. Since then, he has served as a Lead Software Engineer/Solution Architect, a Software Development Engineeri...
James Grenning on Test-Driven Development - Episode 114
November 09, 2020 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBJames Grenning joins the podcast this episode to discuss test-driven development. James is one of the original authors of the Agile Manifesto. His specialties include test-driven development and embedded software going deep in C-based embedded technologies. At his company Wingman Software, he coaches and trains developers to deliver more. With deadlines to meet, quality goals to meet, and customers to satisfy, a developer’s day can often be packed to the brim with little time for inves...