AI DevOps Podcast

Today's guest is Rockford Lhotka. Rocky is an open source architect, professional author, speaker, Microsoft Regional Director, MVP, and avid outdoorsman! He's written numerous books on Visual Basic, C#, and CSLA .NET; and regularly speaks at major technical events.   Rocky has been a mover and shaker in this industry for a long time. He got started in the late 80s, jumped onto the Microsoft bandw...

This week Udi Dahan is joining The Azure DevOps Podcast! Udi is the founder of NServiceBus, the CEO of Particular Software, and Microsoft's Regional Director. He is one of the world's foremost experts on service-oriented architecture and domain-driven design.   He started programming when he was just 8 years old and got his first professional gig at 19 years old. Soon after, he got involved with ....

This week Jeffrey has a special episode for you all! It is recorded live, from the night before the Microsoft MVP Summit, at Jeffrey's annual "Party with Palermo!" get-together for MVPs.   Jeffrey gives an introduction to a number of MVPs who are attending the conference and reconnects with friends and colleagues in the software industry — 19 to be exact! You'll want to stay tuned for this one to...

Your host, Jeffrey Palermo, is excited to bring you this week's episode with his guest, Ted Neward! Ted is an Independent Consultant and Architect, as well as a long-time columnist of CODE Magazine. He also teaches Android Development (using Java) and iOS Development at the University of Washington as a Guest Lecturer.   In this week's episode, Ted and Jeffrey are going to be talking about the 'Op...

Today's guest is Matt Mitrik, the Sr. Program Manager of the Azure DevOps Services Team.   Matt has been working with ALM and DevOps tools for roughly 13 years. He joined Microsoft in 2006 and has been there ever since. Originally, his journey started at the TFS Team in migration tools, helping people get from the previous generation of version control and work tracking tools. Now, within the Azur...

Phil Haack joins the podcast to discuss DevOps at GitHub!   Phil has an interesting and extensive career background. He started out as a Manager of Software Engineering back in 1997. Since then, he's done a lot — but some of his recent highlights include: being the main Program Manager at Microsoft from 2007-2011 (responsible for ASP.NET MVC and NuGet), and leading the Client Apps team as Director...

On today's episode, Jeffrey Palermo welcomes back return guest, Greg Leonardo. Greg is a Cloud Architect at Campus Management Corp. and Webonology. Greg's main focus is to help organizations with Cloud adoption and innovation. He's been working in the IT industry since his time in the military (1993), and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. He's worked in many facets of IT thro ug...

This week, Jeffrey welcomes his guest, Beth Massi! Beth is the Product Marketing Manager for the entire .NET platform. She's also on the Board of Directors for .NET Foundation. She has been with Microsoft for over 12 years, originally starting out as a Senior Program Manager.   Beth fell in love with the .NET platform when it was first released in 2000 and hasn't stopped working with it since — ma...

Today's featured guest is Martin Woodward! Martin is a Principal Group Program Manager on the Azure DevOps team at Microsoft as well as the Vice President of the .NET Foundation. Martin has been with Microsoft quite a while, joining back in 2009. When he first started with Microsoft, his focus was on open source, then bringing GitHub into TFS and Microsoft, and then helping with .NET team. He even...

On today's episode, Scott Hunter joins your host, Jeffrey Palermo, to discuss DevOps capabilities in Azure. 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, he and h is team build .NET Core, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, managed languag...

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 skilled in Software as a Service (SaaS), .NET Framework, Contin...

Paul Stovell, the founder and CEO of Octopus Deploy, joins the podcast today. Paul is an expert on all things automated deployment and Cloud operations. He started Octopus Deploy back in 2011, but prior to that, he worked as a consultant for about five years.   Octopus Deploy is a pretty major player in the market. Their mission? To do automated deployments really, really well. Today, it helps ove...

This week, your host, Jeffrey Palermo, is bringing you a special solo episode to discuss current industry news in the DevOps space, as well as some of his latest tips and strategies.   Jeffrey has been incredibly passionate about DevOps for a while now — since 2006 to be exact. Earlier in his career, he was a founding board member of a group called Agile Austin, led the Austin .NET User Group for...

In this episode, Paul Hacker is joining the Azure DevOps Podcast to discuss DevOps processes and migrations.   Paul is a DevOps Architect at Microsoft and has over 15 years of application, architecture, design, development, and management experience in Microsoft technologies. He has a depth of experience in ALM, Process Improvement, and Team Foundation Server. He's also a fully self-taught enginee...

Today's guest is Greg Leonardo, a Cloud Architect at Campus Management Corp. and Webonology. Greg's main focus is to help organizations with Cloud adoption and innovation. He's been working in the IT industry since his time in the military (1993), and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. He's worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is the President of TampaDev — a com...

Today's episode is a bit of a special one — your host, Jeffrey Palermo, interviews his own older brother, Aaron Palermo. Aaron is a DevOps engineer, solution architect, and all-around cybersecurity expert. He works for a global cybersecurity services company, is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and is a co-author of the up-and-coming Software Defined Perimeter Specification Version 2. SDP...

In today's episode, your host, Jeffrey Palermo, is joined by his guest, Gopinath Chigakkagari. Gopinath is Principal Group Program Manager on the Azure Pipelines product and is an expert on continuous delivery. He's been with Microsoft for over 20 years, serving a variety of roles at the company — starting out as a developer, then becoming a program manager, and then transitioning to his current r...

Today's episode of the Azure DevOps Podcast is featuring Roopesh Nair, a Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience in custom software. And at Microsoft, he works on the release capabilities in Azure Pipelines. Roopesh is incredibly passionate about DevOps and enjoys working with customers.   In this episode, Roopesh gives an overview of the capabilities within...

Today's episode is all about the future of Azure Pipelines. To discuss this topic is Chris Patterson, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft. Chris has been working at Microsoft for over 13 years — starting in 2005 as a Technology Specialist, then transitioned into his current role in 2006. His focus is on the Team Build features of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services. In this e...

In today's episode Jeffrey is joined by Jeremy Epling, Head of Product for Azure Pipelines and a Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft. He has been a leader at Microsoft for over 15 years in various roles. There's a lot going on in the DevOps space with Azure right now — and in particular, with Azure Pipelines. Jeremy is incredibly passionate about the current progress being made and is exc...

In this episode, Jeffrey Palermo is joined by Jamie Cool to discuss what's going on in Azure DevOps! Jamie is the Director of Program Management for Microsoft. In his role he manages dozens of Program Managers all around the world, shipping loads of features on the platform. He has been at Microsoft for 20 years now. When he was first interviewing out of college, he was very intrigued by the PM ro...

In this episode, Jeffrey is discussing security in DevOps with his guest, Henry Been. Henry is an independent DevOps and Azure architect from the Netherlands. He enjoys working with development teams to create a nd deliver great software — and for him, this includes the full DevOps cycle; starting with discovering and planning new features and ending only when end users are satisfied. Henry's inte...

In today's episode, Jeffrey is joined by Eric Hexter, the Chief Technology Officer of Quarterspot LASO — a fintech company that produces lending platforms using machine learning. He built the company in the Cloud with DevOps as a foundational component of delivering the product. Eric has filled roles as CTO, Chief Architect, Developer, and Consultant. He's spent most of his career working with web...

This episode Jeffrey brings you a live recording from the Microsoft Ignite event. Today, he's talking with several people, including Greg Leonardo, an Azure MVP and Cloud Architect; Josh Gaverick, an MVP in Application Lifecycle Management and an Senior Application Architect at 10th Magnitude; Rob Richardson, a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET who also builds web properties for small and medium sized busi...

Jeffrey Palermo is joined by Aaron Bjork on the Azure DevOps Podcast today! Aaron is a Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft where he directs all work in the areas of Agile project management, reporting, and collaboration for Azure DevOps Services. He's a 16-year Microsoft veteran who has spent his career building products that promote and encourage team productivity. He is also a recognize...