AI DevOps Podcast
The AI DevOps Podcast is a show for those shipping software using AI, .NET, Azure, and DevOps. Each show brings you hard-hitting interviews with industry experts, innovating better methods, and sharing success stories. Sponsoring the podcast is Clear Measure, a software architecture and engineering firm that implements AI to empower software teams to establish quality, achieve stability, and increase speed. Hosted by CTO & Chairman, Jeffrey Palermo.
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Greg Leonardo: AI & Azure - Episode 424
10/19/2026
Greg Leonardo: AI & Azure - Episode 424
Greg Leonardo is a Certified Azure Solution Architect, and Microsoft Certified Trainer, and the founder of Webonology, a firm focused on cloud migration and modernization, cloud security, solution architecture, and cloud training. He's received many MVP awards from Microsoft over the years. He is the author of "Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way," and he writes regularly about Azure, AI, and cloud security on his Cloud Daily Wire blog, including posts on governing, securing, and scaling autonomous AI agents on Azure. Greg is also a Gulf War veteran and a leader of the TampaDev community in the Tampa Bay area. He is one of our most frequent guests, and I'm glad to have him back on the show. Website - Webonology - LinkedIn - Twitter Account - Github CloudSpecOps - Previous episodes with Greg Leonardo: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Daniel Vacanti: What's AI Done To Agile - Episode 423
10/12/2026
Daniel Vacanti: What's AI Done To Agile - Episode 423
Daniel Vacanti is co-founder of ProKanban.org and a 20-year veteran of the Lean and Agile software industry who helped develop the Kanban Method in 2007 and managed its first project implementation. He also co-founded ActionableAgile in 2013, building predictive analytics tools that help teams forecast delivery and manage risk using flow metrics such as cycle time, throughput, and work in progress. Daniel has authored several books on the subject, including Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: Tenth Anniversary Edition and the recently released Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II He also teaches lean principles for software management at UC Berkeley and is a certified trainer across ProKanban.org's full course catalog. This is Daniel's third appearance on the show LinkedIn - X Account - Lean Pub - Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II - Drunk Agile - ProKanban Community Day - Previous episodes with Daniel Vacanti: Episode 103 - Episode 199 - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Sam Nasr: AI Transformation - Episode 422
10/05/2026
Sam Nasr: AI Transformation - Episode 422
Sam Nasr is a Senior Software Engineer and Trainer at NIS Technologies in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in the Microsoft AI stack, Azure, and .NET development. A software developer since 1995, Sam is an 8-time Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer who leads the Cleveland C# User Group, the .NET Study Group, and the Azure Cleveland User Group. He shares his expertise as a contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and through his LinkedIn Learning courses, and he blogs regularly at samnasr.blogspot.com, This will be his third appearance on the podcast, having previously joined me to discuss SQL Server for developers. Sam's Blog - LinkedIn - Github - X Account - Upcoming Event - Linktree - linktree.com/samnasr Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 122 - Episode 185 - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Mark Michaelis: Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow - Episode 421
09/28/2026
Mark Michaelis: Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow - Episode 421
Today I'm joined by Mark Michaelis, founder, CEO and Chief Technical Architect of IntelliTect in Spokane, Washington, and a Microsoft Regional Director and C# MVP for more than twenty-five years. Mark is the lead author of the Essential C# book series and the free companion site essentialcsharp.com, and he's continued that work as a member of Microsoft's design review teams for C#, Azure, and Azure DevOps, and as an adjunct professor at Eastern Washington University. He's been on the conference circuit recently with talks like "Mastering the Agentic Coding Workflow" and "AI Axioms: Principles for Thriving in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," bringing his deep C# background to bear on how developers work with AI day to day. You can find him on GitHub as markmichaelis and connect with him on LinkedIn. This is Mark's first time on the show, and I'm excited to get his perspective on where AI-assisted development is headed. Intellitect Website - Essential CSharp - Github - EssentialCSharp Github - LinkedIn - Email - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Justin Martin: Commanding Fleets of AI Agents - Episode 420
09/21/2026
Justin Martin: Commanding Fleets of AI Agents - Episode 420
Today I'm joined by Justin Martin, a product-focused engineering leader based in Austin, Texas, with more than twenty years of experience driving technical innovation at startups and high-growth tech companies, from Groupon-era Rails to fraud prevention for banks. He is now commanding fleets of AI agents from a single post. He is currently the Head of Engineering at 6Lock. Github - X Account - Website - LinkedIn - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Uncle Bob Martin: AI Driven Development - Episode 419
09/14/2026
Uncle Bob Martin: AI Driven Development - Episode 419
Today I'm joined by Robert C. Martin, known to most of the industry as Uncle Bob - a programmer since 1970, co-author of the Agile Manifesto, and the first chairman of the Agile Alliance. He's the founder of Uncle Bob Consulting LLC and has written many of the field's defining books, including Clean Code, Clean Architecture, Clean Agile, and his newest release, Functional Design. Lately he's been deep into a project called swarm-forge, an open-source tool he built for coordinating teams of AI coding agents through disciplined, tmux-based workflows, and he's been documenting his experiments running it on real projects on X. This is actually Robert's fourth time on the show - we've previously talked about Agile and Extreme Programming, about clean code, and about being a software leader - I'm looking forward to hearing how his thinking on AI and software programming has evolved. Clean Coder Website - Uncle Bob Github - Swarm Forge Github - X Account - Clean Coder LinkedIn - Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Jeffrey Palermo: AI-Driven Software Projects - Episode 418
09/07/2026
Jeffrey Palermo: AI-Driven Software Projects - Episode 418
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Joseph Guadagno: Architecture for AI Development - Episode 417
08/31/2026
Joseph Guadagno: Architecture for AI Development - Episode 417
Joseph Guadagno is an experienced executive level software leader and architect over 30 years of software development experience and a Microsoft MVP since 2007, having also served as President of the .NET Foundation from 2023 to 2024. he blogs regularly about .NET, Azure, and AI-assisted development workflows. This will be Joseph's second appearance on the podcast - he previously joined me in 2021 to talk about the latest in Azure DevOps. You can find more about Joseph and his work at josephguadagno.net. Website - LinkedIn - Github - X Link - Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 159 - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Anna Hoffman: AI Database Development - Episode 416
08/24/2026
Anna Hoffman: AI Database Development - Episode 416
Anna Hoffman is a Principal Group Product Manager for Azure Data on Microsoft's SQL Engineering team, where she works across SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric. She is also the host of Data Exposed, Microsoft's video series covering the data platform. Anna holds an engineering degree from Georgia Tech along with a master's degree in data science, and started her career as a data and applied scientist before moving into product management. She continues to blog regularly for the Azure SQL Devs' Corner. You can find her on GitHub and on X at @AnalyticAnna. Anna's Devblogs - Anna's Github - X Account - LinkedIn - MSSQL extension roadmap - GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in SSMS - Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 160 - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Mark Seemann: AI Code Quality - Episode 415
08/17/2026
Mark Seemann: AI Code Quality - Episode 415
Mark Seemann is a self-employed programmer and software architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the author of Code That Fits in Your Head and Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns. He is widely known throughout the .NET community for his ploeh blog, which he has maintained for years, writing about software architecture, test-driven development, and functional programming. He shares his work and insights on GitHub and X as @ploeh, and can also be found on LinkedIn. Mark previously joined the show for Episode 189, "Code That Fits In Your Head." Ploeh - Guthub Ploeh - X Ploeh - LinkedIn Ploeh - The AI Code Quality Maintainability Gap - Sam Harris Podcast - Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 189 - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Jimmy Bogard: AI-Driven Development - Episode 414
08/10/2026
Jimmy Bogard: AI-Driven Development - Episode 414
Today’s guest is a true heavyweight in the .NET open-source world — someone whose work has quietly, but profoundly, shaped the way countless developers build software. Jimmy Bogard is the creator and maintainer of two very popular OSS libraries in the .NET ecosystem: AutoMapper and MediatR. If you've ever tried to simplify object mapping or decouple application logic, chances are you've used his tools. Based in Austin, Texas, Jimmy is an independent software consultant and a 15+ year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award — every year since 2009. AutoMapper alone has been around for 17 years and racked up hundreds of millions of downloads. It started as a personal tool to streamline development for client projects and grew into a global standard for object mapping. Github eShop - Jimmy's Github - AutoMapper Github - AutoMapper Nuget - MediatR Nuget - MediatR Github - Jimmy's Website - Jimmy's Website / AutoMapper - Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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John Bristowe: Octopus Catchup - Episode 413
08/03/2026
John Bristowe: Octopus Catchup - Episode 413
John Bristowe brings over 20 years of experience in technology to his role as Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy. His career includes time at Progress and Microsoft, where he developed his skills in management and technology. Known for a straightforward and engaging style, John often speaks at industry conferences, sharing practical tips and insights. John is a HashiCorp Ambassador and part of the Progress Champions program. He enjoys creating content such as articles, webinars, and podcasts, aiming to help others in the tech community. In his free time, John likes to stay informed about the latest tech developments and shares his learning with an online audience. His approach is always about sharing knowledge and learning together. LinkedIn- Sessionize Link - Octopus Roadmap - roadmap.octopus.com Octopus Blog - I Love Lucy Reference - Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Blake Caraway: AI in Business Operations - Episode 412
07/27/2026
Blake Caraway: AI in Business Operations - Episode 412
Blake Caraway is the General Manager of Texas Multi-Chem, Ltd., a Texas Hill Country company where he has spent over a decade transforming daily operations through technology. With a degree in Computer Information Systems from Southwest Texas State University, Blake began his career as a Programmer Analyst at Dell Technologies, then moved into software architecture at Callaway Golf. He later joined Headspring Systems in Austin, which was later acquired by Accenture, as a Principal Consultant, where he led agile software projects, shaped client-facing architecture, and helped grow the consulting practice. Blake brought that software experience back to his hometown of Kerrville, Texas, where he now leads Texas Multi-Chem — a preeminent sports field contractor of Texas. Blake is using technology to improve internal operations one business process as a time. LinkedIn: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Michael Nygard: AI - Episode 411
07/20/2026
Michael Nygard: AI - Episode 411
Michael Nygard advises consulting firms, private equity teams, CTOs, CEOs, and boards when they require senior technology judgment for limited-term, high-impact situations — including architecture assessment, platform rescue, cloud and data cost intervention, AI engineering enablement, technical diligence, divestiture and carve-out architecture, and operating-model redesign. Over a 35-year career, he has worked at the seam where people, processes, organizations, and the systems they build intersect. Most organizations treat those as separate problems. The hardest failures, and the most consequential wins, live precisely where they interact. That through-line is what Release It! is fundamentally about. The vocabulary it introduced — circuit breakers, bulkheads, stability patterns — is now standard in how the industry discusses reliability, and the book is widely cited as foundational to DevOps and cloud-native practice. At Nubank, he led the Data Business Unit with over $300 million in annual spend, then served as Chief Architect with reach across 2,500 engineers while the customer base grew from 75 million to 125 million across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Results included cutting data-platform spend roughly 50% year-over-year, improving on-time data availability past 99%, building governance aligned with LGPD, GDPR, and CCPA, moving team engagement from the bottom decile to the 60th percentile, and rolling out AI coding tools to more than 90% of engineers without customer-visible quality regression. At Sabre, as part of the CTO office, he helped lead development-practice modernization, GCP migration strategy, mainframe offload architecture, technical diligence, and divestiture architecture across thousands of applications and hundreds of products. He is most effective when the stakes are real, the system is sociotechnical, and the solution must hold across architecture, execution, economics, and organizational behavior. LinkedIn: Personal Blog & Website: GitHub: https://github.com/mtnygard Twitter/X: Release It! (Pragmatic Programmers): 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (O'Reilly): Goodreads Author Page: LinkedIn Articles: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/mtnygard Presentations Archive: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Brady Gaster: Squad AI Agent - Episode 410
07/13/2026
Brady Gaster: Squad AI Agent - Episode 410
Brady Gaster is a Principal PM Architect at GitHub, where he works on Apps, Agents, MIDI, and most notably, Squad — an open-source framework for orchestrating AI agent teams with GitHub Copilot. A longtime contributor to the .NET ecosystem, Brady previously served as Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team, leading work on SignalR, Orleans, microservices, and HTTP APIs. He is the co-creator of Squad, which allows developers to define a team of specialized AI agents that collaborate on real engineering work. When he's not building developer tools, Brady enjoys making music in his basement with synthesizers and guitars, and spending time with his two sons. Website / Blog: GitHub: LinkedIn: Twitter/X: @bradygaster Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Matthew Renze: AI Changes - Episode 409
07/06/2026
Matthew Renze: AI Changes - Episode 409
Matthew Renze is an AI researcher, consultant, and author, and the founder of Renze Consulting, where he has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals worldwide. He has delivered over 200 keynotes, presentations, and workshops on every continent — including Antarctica — for clients ranging from tech startups to Fortune 500 companies. A nine-time Microsoft MVP in AI, Matthew is also the president of the Renze AI Research Institute, where he studies how self-reflecting large language model agents improve problem-solving performance, trustworthiness, and value alignment. Most recently he was accepted into the Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University, and he featured as an interview subject in the 2026 documentary "AI Everywhere." Website: LinkedIn: Twitter/X: @matthewrenze GitHub: https://github.com/matthewrenze (via profile links) Our OpenClaw agent ("Bob") - Bob's website: - Bob's blog: - Bob's book: - Agent ranking site: Stage 1 - Communicating in steps with an AI assistant - ChatGPT - - Claude Chat - Stage 2 - Collaborating on tasks with an AI agent - GitHub Copilot - - Claude Code - - OpenAI Codex - Stage 3 - Supervising processes with an agentic workflow - LangChain / LangGraph - - Microsoft Agent Workflows - Stage 4 - Managing a project with an autonomous agent - OpenClaw: - Hermes: Stage 5 - Leading a mission with an autonomous agency - PaperClip AI: Fireworks AI: ---------------------------------- Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 44 — Matthew Renze on Data Science for Developers Episode 220 — Matthew Renze: Developing Your AI Strategy Episode 249 — Matthew Renze: AI Ethics --------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Tamir Dresher: Squad Agent Workflows - Episode 407
06/22/2026
Tamir Dresher: Squad Agent Workflows - Episode 407
Tamir Dresher is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft Threat Protection, where he focuses on scaling AI agent systems and distributed architectures, bringing over 15 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems. He is the co-creator of Squad, an open-source multi-agent runtime for GitHub Copilot that orchestrates AI teams directly inside your repository. Tamir is the author of "Rx.NET in Action" (Manning) and "Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core" (Packt), and has been a lecturer in Software Engineering at the Ruppin Academic Center since 2013. A prominent figure in the Israeli and international developer communities, he is a Microsoft MVP alumnus who speaks frequently at global conferences and writes actively on his blog at tamirdresher.com. Website / Blog - LinkedIn - GitHub: https - //github.com/tamirdresher Twitter/X - @tamir_dresher Blog Post - Github - Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Erik Darling: T-SQL Architecture - Episode 406
06/15/2026
Erik Darling: T-SQL Architecture - Episode 406
Erik Darling makes your database faster in exchange for money. He is a DBA, developer, and architect with a track record of tackling even the most challenging of technical issues. He runs a SQL Server Consulting and Coaching practice. In addition to his consulting services, he is also passionate about blogging, training, and contributing to open-source projects that help with SQL Server troubleshooting. He's given many public speaking engagements on the topic at conferences and events around the world, like PASS Summit and SQLBits. Website - Twitter - Youtube - LinkedIn - LinkedIn 2 - TikTok - BlueSky - Trainings Previous Guest on the Azure DevOps Podcast: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Chris "Woody" Woodruff: AI-Assisted Software Architecture - Episode 405
06/08/2026
Chris "Woody" Woodruff: AI-Assisted Software Architecture - Episode 405
Chris Woodruff, or as his friends call him, Woody, is a software architect of over 25 years. Woody loves software engineering, especially allowing applications and services to communicate across networks and through Web APIs. He has received Microsoft MVP awards in SQL, Data and C# in the past, along with multiple years of being awarded the AWS Community Builder Award. He's a current board member of the .NET Foundation Woody lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he explores the many breweries in West Michigan and travels with his family. Woody is also a long-time bourbon fan and loves hunting for whiskey bottles. Website - LinkedIn - Twitter - Simplicity-First Website - Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 262 - Chris "Woody" Woodruff: Network Programming ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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J. Tower: A.I. Workflows - Episode 404
06/01/2026
J. Tower: A.I. Workflows - Episode 404
Jonathan Tower — known to friends and colleagues simply as "J." — is the founding partner of Trailhead Technology Partners, a custom software consulting firm with employees across the U.S., Europe, and South America. A 12-time Microsoft MVP for .NET and a Telerik Developer Expert, J. brings nearly 25 years of industry experience spanning roles from senior architect to director of development. He was recently elected to the .NET Foundation Board of Directors for the 2026–2027 term and is the driving force behind Beer City Code, Western Michigan's largest professional software conference. J. is also a LinkedIn Learning course author and an active speaker at software conferences around the world; including being a speaker at the most recent .NET Conf. LinkedIn - Website - Trailhead Technology Website - Trailhead Technology Events - Trailhead Technology Blogs - Beer City Code- Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 371 - Software Leadership with Jonathan "J." Tower Episode 263 - J. Tower: Modernization Strangler Fig Pattern ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Ryan Riley: Development Process using AI - Episode 403
05/25/2026
Ryan Riley: Development Process using AI - Episode 403
Ryan Riley is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Quorum Software in Houston, TX, with deep expertise in functional programming, software architecture, and web API design across the .NET ecosystem. He is a Microsoft Visual F# MVP and longtime open-source contributor, best known for his work on projects such as Frank, WebApiContrib, and the Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN) specification. Ryan leads the Community for F# virtual user group and is an active blogger, having recently published a thought-provoking piece in March 2026 examining AI-assisted spec-driven development and its relationship to Agile and historical software practices. He brings a thoughtful, systems-level perspective to software engineering leadership, mentoring, and team-building that spans front-end UX through back-end distributed applications. LinkedIn: GitHub: Twitter/X: Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Ryan Riley: Leading a Software Engineering Team - The Power of 10 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Developing_Safety-Critical_CodeDevelopment Process using AI Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Gaurav Seth: Leading in the AI World - Episode 402
05/18/2026
Gaurav Seth: Leading in the AI World - Episode 402
Today I’ve have Gaurav Seth with us — he’s a product executive at Microsoft working on fundamentally redefining how software gets built and scaled. He’s been bringing agentic AI into every stage of the develop‑deploy‑operate cycle, both for Microsoft’s internal engineering teams and for developers building on the platform. He’s hands-on building AI agents into GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio, working on evaluation systems that improve model quality, and shaping core platforms that power Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Xbox, and LinkedIn. Right now, he’s focused on some of the hardest problems in the industry — what it looks like to move from manual to AI-driven development, how to measure and improve agent performance at scale, how to make massive codebases understandable to LLMs, and what the future of developer workflows looks like in an agent-first world. Before this, he helped lead some major shifts — from Edge’s move to Chromium, to scaling TypeScript into one of the most widely used languages in the world, to evolving Visual Studio’s business model and growing .NET in a crowded market. He operates end-to-end — from product strategy and engineering to go-to-market, partnerships, and enterprise adoption — and has a unique ability to connect deep technical innovation with real-world impact. Mentioned in this Episode Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Stephen Cleary: Asynchronous Software - Episode 401
05/11/2026
Stephen Cleary: Asynchronous Software - Episode 401
Stephen Cleary is a software developer, author, and independent consultant with deep expertise in asynchronous and concurrent programming in .NET. He is the author of "Concurrency in C# Cookbook" (O'Reilly, 2nd edition), the definitive practical reference on async, parallel, reactive, and multithreaded programming in C#. Stephen is one of the top-ranked users on Stack Overflow, widely recognized for his authoritative answers on async/await, and he has published extensively on the subject through MSDN Magazine, conference talks, and his long-running blog. His most recent blog post, "Debug Dumps in Visual Studio," was published in December 2025 and continues his tradition of sharing hard-won, practical knowledge with the .NET community. Website: Blog: Book: GitHub: Twitter/X: Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Tim Corey: Learning AI Architecture - Episode 400
05/04/2026
Tim Corey: Learning AI Architecture - Episode 400
Tim Corey is an nine-time Microsoft MVP, a software developer with more than 30 years of experience, and one of the most recognized online educators in the .NET ecosystem. DevForge at IAmTimCorey.com -- has helped millions of developers learn to think and code like professionals. He is the author of Getting Started with C#: A Practical Guide, the creator of the popular C# Mastercourse, and the host of the DevQuestions podcast, now in its seventh season. Tim learned software development the hard way so his students don't have to -- and he is a returning guest, having joined us previously on Episode 241. Previous appearance(s) on the Azure DevOps Podcast: : Tim Corey: Learning Programming (Apr 17, 2023) Website: Blog: LinkedIn: Twitter / X: GitHub: YouTube: Podcast: Recent projects / posts: - Course: Upgrading to .NET 10 From Start to Finish - Course: C# Mastercourse - Game Development Mastercourse (preorder) - Blog: "Does Vibe Coding Have A Place In Software Development?" (May 2025) - Blog: "What Microsoft Choosing Go over C# Can Teach Us" (Apr 2025) - Blog: "Can AI Do a Developer's Job?" (Mar 2025) - DevQuestions Podcast Ep. 299: "Why is the job market slowing down?" (Mar 5, 2026) Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Chet Husk: .NET Tooling - Episode 399
04/27/2026
Chet Husk: .NET Tooling - Episode 399
Chet Husk is a Product Manager on the .NET Tools team at Microsoft, where he leads the .NET SDK, MSBuild, Template Engine, and Install Scripts teams -- shaping how millions of .NET developers build, publish, and containerize their applications. Before joining Microsoft in 2021, Chet was deeply embedded in the F# open-source community, serving on the F# Software Foundation Board and co-maintaining Ionide, the popular F# extension for VS Code. At Microsoft, he drove the built-in container publishing support that lets developers create container images with just "dotnet publish" -- no Dockerfile required -- and recently shipped SLNX, the new XML-based solution file format for the .NET CLI. He is also exploring the intersection of AI and build tooling with an open-source MCP server that lets AI assistants analyze MSBuild binary logs. Mentioned in this Episode Recent projects / posts Blog: (Mar 2025, .NET Blog) : MCP server for AI-assisted MSBuild binary log analysis (.NET Blog) SLNGEN .NET Tool /dotnet/skills GitHub repo structed nuget package - devlooped EBNF Grammar (Extended Backus–Naur Form) \Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Pierce Boggan: AI Workflows - Episode 398
04/20/2026
Pierce Boggan: AI Workflows - Episode 398
Pierce Boggan is the PM Lead for Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, where he guides the product direction of the world's most popular code editor as it evolves into an AI-native development platform. He joined Microsoft through the Xamarin acquisition more than a decade ago and has worked across mobile tools, Visual Studio, and the Teams Toolkit before taking the helm of the VS Code team in late 2024. Pierce co-hosts the VS Code Insiders Podcast, presented in the GitHub Universe 2025 keynote, and recently helped his team make the historic shift from monthly to weekly releases -- powered by AI. He is also the creator of Primer, an open-source CLI that prepares codebases for AI-assisted development. -------------------------------------------- Mentioned in This Episode Recent projects / posts: announced (Dec 2025) -- unified view for managing local, background, and cloud AI agents GitHub Universe 2025 keynote presenter (Nov 2025) : "VS Code -- 2025 Wrapped" (Dec 2025) -- prepares repos for AI-assisted development (423 stars) -- MCP server enabling image creation in GitHub Copilot from monthly to weekly releases (Mar 2026 interview) ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Michael Perry: AI-assisted Development - Episode 397
04/13/2026
Michael Perry: AI-assisted Development - Episode 397
Michael Perry is a Director at Improving Enterprises and a self-described "Software Mathematician" who has spent his career applying mathematical principles to software development, drawing on the foundational work of thinkers like Bertrand Meyer, James Rumbaugh, and Donald Knuth. He is the author of "The Art of Immutable Architecture" and the creator and maintainer of Jinaga, an open-source immutable runtime framework for building collaborative and distributed applications in .NET and JavaScript. A former seven-year Microsoft MVP, Michael has produced multiple Pluralsight courses covering CQRS, XAML Patterns, Cryptography, and Provable Code,and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences across the country. At Improving, he helps enterprise clients harness the power of immutable architecture and software mathematics to build scalable, robust systems. Mentioned in this Episode (@michaellperry) FactoryEngineering.dev roocode - plugin for VSCode - has subagents Windsurf (AI Tool) Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Aaron Stannard: Software 2.0 using AI - Episode 396
04/06/2026
Aaron Stannard: Software 2.0 using AI - Episode 396
Aaron Stannard is the Founder and CEO of Petabridge and the co-founder and lead maintainer of Akka.NET — the most widely used actor model framework for .NET, with over 21 million NuGet downloads and adoption by Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Bank of America, and S&P Global. A two-time startup founder, Aaron previously founded MarkedUp Analytics and worked at Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist before dedicating himself full-time to building the Akka.NET ecosystem. He's a Vanderbilt University graduate, a former Microsoft MVP, and has spoken at major conferences worldwide including NDC, Techorama, QCon, and .NET Conf. Beyond Akka.NET, Aaron is known for creating NBench (a .NET performance benchmarking framework), the Sdkbin marketplace for .NET developers, and for his prolific blog and YouTube content on distributed systems, .NET internals, and software engineering philosophy. Mentioned in this Episode - (@Aaronontheweb) openclaw simon Crop - verify library SlopWatch - detect reward hacking behavior Opus 4.6 & Sonnet 4.6 Copilot OpenCode Claude Code Codex 5.3 model for debugging Qwen2.5 27B llama.cpp local. tmux - Terminal multiplexer suo apt install -y tmux Ralph LLM loop Akka.NET StirTrek, May 1 in Ohio NDC Copenhagen in June Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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Mads Torgersen: Talking AI - Episode 395
03/30/2026
Mads Torgersen: Talking AI - Episode 395
Mads is a Principal Architect at Microsoft, where he has been for over 20 years. He's been the Lead Designer of the C# language for a long time. Prior to this, Mads was a professor and contributed to a language starting with J. He was previously on episode 325 of the podcast where he spoke about the latest on C# at the time. Mentioned in this Episode Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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James World - AI - Episode 394
03/23/2026
James World - AI - Episode 394
James World is a technology leader with decades of hands‑on engineering experience, enabling enterprises to thrive through modern cloud and AI‑driven solutions. He has spent well over ten years architecting cloud‑native platforms on Microsoft Azure, guiding multiple development teams through complex digital transformations while remaining deeply involved in the code and critical technical decision‑making. His background spans financial services and other enterprise environments where reliability, performance, and scalability are non‑negotiable. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert and a polyglot developer, with extensive commercial experience primarily in .NET and C#, applied across distributed systems, event‑driven architectures, and modern AI integration patterns. He is currently focused on driving responsible and effective adoption of Generative AI within the enterprise—from engineering productivity and product enhancement to business‑assistive tooling. He has been involved with AI initiatives and won several AI hackathons, helping organizations move from experimentation to meaningful strategic value. He enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring engineers, and sharing practical insights on architecture, modern software development, and AI‑augmented delivery practices. He believes technologists never stop learning—and that commitment is what keeps the industry exciting. Mentioned in This Episode Context7 GitHub SpecKit OpenSpec Striker for mutation testing Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.
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