Today we re-air an interview from 2019 with Gabriel Weinberg, the CEO of DuckDuckGO. Happy holidays and hope you enjoy this interview!

We dig into what it takes to make a maintainable application as we continue to learn from Designing Data-Intensive Applications, as Allen is a big fan of baby Yoda, Michael's index isn't corrupt, and ...

Paulo Renato, a Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft works with large GISVs and he tells us about the massive scale to which these customers have to consume Azure and how best to manage this ...

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early ‘80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2003, he’s also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ...

In this episode, we're talking about working with distraction and how we can focus better in the new year.

If you struggle with regular expressions, you aren't alone. Regex is a huge pain point for a lot of developers and can be complex to understand. Read more › The post Regex Demystified appeared ...

Containers sound like a good idea - but can you get your application live on them? Carl and Richard talk to Michele Bustamante about her on-going work migrating existing applications to microservices ...

Today's episode is about perspective. When you have the perspective that most of what you experience will eventually be forgotten.

Jie Feng, a Senior PM in the Azure Data team, gives us the low-down on the new Data Share service that went GA at Ignite. She provides use-cases for the service, tells us how it works and how to access ...

Think about any relationship you've had, specifically a professional relationship. These relationships have either explicit or implicit agreements. In today's episode we're talking about explanations ...

Are your processes useful? In the last couple of episodes, we've been talking about feedback loops and in today's episode we're continuing that discussion and zooming out to make sure our feedback loops ...

While most higher level languages have sorting algorithms built into them or in their standard libraries they may not be the best option for what you are building. Understand sorting will help you to ...

Do you Python? Carl and Richard chat with Michael Kennedy about the current state of Python and how .NET developers can learn it! Michael talks about the many flavors of Python out there today and the ...

In the last episode we talked about feedback loops and in today's episode, we're talking about how that feedback loop can lead to automatic responses.

Evan talks about a recent support case he worked on and how it's easy to blame Azure for everything that goes wrong when moving to the Cloud. Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode307.mp3 Transcript:   Other ...

In today's episode, we're focusing on self-improvement, specifically focusing on the idea of a feedback loop and how we can use them to change and improve.

We continue to study the teachings of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, while Michael's favorite book series might be the Twilight series, Joe blames his squeak toy chewing habit on his dogs, and ...

What was the last feature you built that wasn't as useful as you'd hoped? How can we avoid this scenario?

When you have a huge backlog of possible features to implement in your app, you may be tempted to create a plugin model so that other people can modify it. However, this path is trickier than it seems. Read ...

How do you improve the performance of your application? While at .NET Developer Days in Poland, Carl and Richard chatted with Steve Gordon about his work writing high-performance C#. The conversation ...

Can you experience a feeling that you don't have a name for? In today's episode we're talking about complex feelings and building a framework for creating memories and knowledge.

How do titles and roles function on a team and how can they lead us astray? Today, we're talking about roles on development teams and what they mean.

Microsoft’s Mads Torgersen– Lead Designer of C# — talks about creating programming languages and what’s new in C# 8. Do not miss this one! Overview of C# 8.0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/whats-new/csharp-8 ...

Today we're talking about how to think about requests and different ways to manage too many requests.

Defensive programming is about creating long lasting applications that will graciously handle unexpected inputs from users. It's building code to survive the test of time. Read more › The post ...