Episodes

Mary and Tom Poppendieck join us to talk about Software Engineering: Then, Now, and Next. - Mary started her career as a process control programmer, moved on to manage the IT department of a manufacturing plant,

Dave Stanke joins us to talk all about Site Reliability Engineering. - Dave is a Developer Relations Engineer with Google Cloud Platform specializing in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and other flavors of technical relationship therapy...

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's fully managed NoSQL database on Azure. As a NoSQL database, Azure Cosmos DB is both horizontally scalable and nonrelational. This session will overview the concepts, techniques,

Kevin is an author, teacher, mentor, and consultant focusing in software development. As an independent consultant, Kevin specializes in helping businesses push their technology stacks into the 21st century. Links https://twitter.

Allen is an internationally recognized software architect and consultant/trainer focusing on organizational agility. He helps people build software better & build better software. He's available as a consultant to help your company with it's agility...

James teaches, writes, and consults on Agile software development. He is co-author of the classic Agile how-to guide, The Art of Agile Development. He is also co-creator of the Agile Fluency® Model, a highly-regarded guide for Agile adoption. He’s a recipient of the Agile Alliance’s Gordon Pask Award for Contributions to Agile Practice. Links https://www.jamesshore.com/ https://twitter.com/jamesshore https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-shore-7475b6/ https://github.com/jamesshore Resources http...

Nick is a Senior Engineering Manager for Developer Platform and Engineering Experience at Checkout.com. He is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and a YouTube content creator, creating educational content on C# and .NET for developers of all skill levels. Links https://twitter.com/nickchapsas https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-chapsas/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrkPsvLGln62OMZRO6K-llg Resources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRJFNGIsJEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuFQtyRmS...

Scott works at Microsoft on Visual Studio and .NET - Including .NET Core, .NET tooling, Languages, ASP.NET, Entity Framework and Web Tooling. - Links https://twitter.com/coolcsh https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/scothu/ - Resources

William is the CEO of Buoyant. Prior to founding Buoyant, he was an infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he ran several teams building on product-facing backend infrastructure. He has worked at Powerset, Microsoft, adap.tv, and MITRE Corp, and has been contributing to open source for over 20 years. Links https://twitter.com/wm https://www.linkedin.com/in/wmorgan/ Resources https://buoyant.io/ https://linkerd.io/ https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2 “Tempting Time” by Animals As Leaders ...

Swizec is a software engineer, instructor, blogger, vlogger, conference speaker, and author. He has trained the engineering teams from multiple Fortune 500 companies on React, Redux, GraphQL, Serverless, and other modern web technologies. Links https://swizec.com/ https://twitter.com/Swizec https://www.linkedin.com/in/swizec/ Resources Thinking in Bets Extreme Ownership https://seniormindset.com/ https://swizec.com/blog/what-makes-you-a-senior-software-engineer-anyway/ https://swizec.com/blog...

Mads is a principal program manager on the Visual Studio Team and has published over 150 free Visual Studio extensions. He blogs about anything related to Visual Studio and extensibility, and is a home automation enthusiasts. - Links

David is a Software Engineer, Mentor, Organizer, Volunteer, Speaker, Workshop Creator, and unabashed Career Changer, specializing in C# .NET, N-Tier and Microservice Architecture. - Links https://twitter.com/_davewritescode

Tanner builds open source software that is currently used by hundreds of thousands of developers at companies ranging from fortune 500 companies all the way down to startups and indie developers. - He has a focus in JavaScript using React,

April is a senior cloud advocate for Microsoft specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is working on Microsoft Azure to take customers on a journey from legacy technology while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps. Links https://twitter.com/TheAprilEdwards https://www.linkedin.com/in/azureapril https://github.com/scubaninja https://azapril.dev/ Resources https://nubesgen.com https://aka.ms/DevOpsLab https://githubuniverse.com/ https://docs.m...

While "quality" can be subjective, certainly there are items with which we can agree? - This is what Roy was saying - Clayton is weirdly zen - Azure DevOps Podcast with Jeffrey Palermo & Capers Jones missed requirements -

Jesse is a principal developer, specializing in web and mobile and has been programming in C# for 20 years. He is a Microsoft MVP, a Xamarin MVP, an author, and he creates on-line courses for Pluralsight, LinkedIn Learning, Udemy, and Pakt. He is the author of 18 books, the latest of which is Git for programmers. Links https://twitter.com/JesseLiberty http://jesseliberty.com http://jesseliberty.me https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesseliberty Resources Git for Programmers “Tempting Time” by Ani...

Jason Bock is a Developer Advocate at Rocket Mortgage and a Microsoft MVP (C#). He has over 25 years of experience. He is the author of several books including ".NET Development Using the Compiler API". He is a leader of the Twin Cities Code Camp an...

Roy Osherove has worked in the software industry for over 20 years, and has authored several books including "The Art of Unit Testing". These days, he is working as a freelance consultant & trainer on-site for various companies across the world.

Ryan has published programming and architecture books, been awarded Microsoft MVP and frequently talks at conferences and users groups. He started Vice Software 6 years ago and has grown to over 40 developers and continues to grow 50% year over year. Links https://twitter.com/RyanVice1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanvice https://vicesoftware.com/ Resources https://medium.com/@RyanVice/accuracy-in-project-estimation-starts-with-a-dirty-word-a9f37ae94c18 “Tempting Time” by Animals As Leaders...

Today we are going to talk about tech debt. What it is and how to manage it. - - 1) What is tech debt? - Intentional vs Unintentional (Software Entropy / Code Rot) cruft - Architectural Choice vs Poor Development Practice -

Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien is the founder of Hibernating Rhinos which develops RavenDB, a NoSQL open source & ACID document database. Links https://twitter.com/ayende https://ayende.com/blog/ https://github.com/ayende https://www.

Bryan is a Software architect, Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, Podcaster, and Blogger. He has twenty years experience; focusing on development of web applications, micro services and desktop applications. Links https://twitter.

James is a PM Architect at Microsoft. He joined Xamarin in 2011 and has been at Microsoft now for 5 years. He joins us to talk about Comet, .NET MAUI, and a little bit about Xamarin Forms. Links https://twitter.com/jtclancey

Jon is a technical product manager, YouTuber and podcaster. He enjoys exploring the systems, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier, and more productive lives. Links https://twitter.com/_jondouglas https://jondouglas.