Download Episode (mp3) In this show: MySQL, Vertica, Azure Data Explorer and Matan 24 Hours of PASS: Summit Preview 2019 PASS Summit 2019: Session Schedule The Data Bias in Song Contests How ...

A rising alternative to the content management system approach is to use the JAMstack, which stands for Javascript, APIs, and Markup. It's an approach to building websites that is intended to deliver ...

What is gRPC and why should you care? Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about the new hotness that is gRPC - or is it? Shawn talks about all the different approaches we've taken over the years ...

The science of motivation is tricky. We know some of the things we want but don't know how to get them.

Something difficult to accept is the fact that you will probably change.

We learn how to apply the concepts of The Pragmatic Programmer to teams while Michael uses his advertisement voice, Joe has a list, and Allen doesn't want anyone up in his Wheaties.

Shaloo Garg, a Director in Microsoft Startups, explains to us how Startups can leverage valuable technical and business resources from Microsoft to help make them successful in the marketplace. Resources: https://Startups.microsoft.comhttps://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us Media ...

Different ways to think about finding purpose.

Cheryl Contee is the award-winning CEO of the digital agency Do Big Things. She's the cofounder of Attentive.ly, the first tech startup with a black female founder to be acquired by a NASDAQ company, ...

Speaking at conferences can be daunting, especially if you are first starting out. Public speaking can be hard enough without going through the conference talk process. Both Will and BJ have gone through ...

In the age of the cloud, does performance matter? Carl and Richard talk to JD Trask of Raygun software about his work making applications run fast - and knowing how to do it! JD talks about the various ...

If you're feeling stuck right now, this is the episode for you.

Today we're focusing on self-improvements as a team.

Focus.

Dr. Saleema Amerishi and researchers at Microsoft have published 18 guidelines for Human-AI Interaction that prescribe how an AI system should behave upon initial interaction, as the user interacts with ...

Dr. Saleema Amershi and researchers at Microsoft have published 18 guidelines for Human-AI Interaction that prescribe how an AI system should behave upon initial interaction, as the user interacts with ...

Faith Xu, a Senior PM in the Microsoft ML Platform team, brings us up to speed on the Open Neural Network eXchange (ONNX) specification and it's associated Runtime which can be used for running interoperable ...

If you are contemplating starting a side project, there are some things you need to keep in mind in order to keep your day job from interfering with, or even damaging your side project. You also need ...

Server-Side Blazor is poised to ship at the end of September 2019 - are you ready? Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker, formerly of DotNetNuke fame, about server-side Blazor - starting with, how does ...

School will be starting soon and in today's episode we're talking specifically to students.

After 112 episodes, Michael can't introduce the show, Allen pronounces it "ma-meee", and don't make Joe run your janky tests as The Pragmatic Programmer teaches us how we should use exceptions and program ...

We've all experienced boredom.

Download Episode (mp3) We had a technical issue with this month's recording, so instead we're going back to one of our favorite shows - Big Mistakes with Brent Ozar. Enjoy, and we'll be back with ...

Today we're talking about thinking long term.

Veteran guest of the show, Logic Apps Lead PM Kevin Lam is back to talk about their latest offering, Logic Apps ISE. He gives us the low-down on the unique features of this offering and when it makes ...