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Send us a textThorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, joins the show to discuss WebAssembly in general and specifically the news around Spin and SpinKube. We discuss when to use Spin, what the CNCF contribution of SpinKube means and what the future could bring in the WebAssembly world. 

Send us a textNatalie Karolak, Product Architect at COSMO CONSULT and MVP Alumni, and Krzysztof Bialowas, Business Central Team Leader at Dynaway and MVP, join this episode directly from day 2 of BC TechDays 2024. We discuss news and highlights of the conference, of course touch on AI and explain why we all like the conference so much.

Adrian Mouat, James Spurin, and Nigel Poulton delve into the 2024 Docker Captains Summit in Lisbon, discussing its impact on the future. They share insights on community engagement, Docker's evolution, and the importance of cloud native tooling. The podcast also includes a humorous anecdote about encountering a graffiti artist's tag during a boat trip.

Send us a textVivian Voss, freelance Solution Architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP, joins the show to talk about the second year of DynamicsMinds in Portoroz, Slovenia, as well as a couple of topics around the Power Platform like co-creation, pro-code support and the dynamics in fusion teams

Send us a textRalf Richter, Distinguished Cloud Consultant at shiftavenue and Community hero, comes on the show to discuss everything around Event Driven Architecture. We start with an overview and typical scenarios, look into differentiation from other architectural approaches, discuss drawbacks and adoption best practices and close it off with real life examples and some misconceptions. Ralf also shares the idea of his latest podcast Decode AI. 

Send us a textJosh Anglesea, Systems Architect at Xpedition and Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, joins this episode to talk about the integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft Power Platform. We take a look at the overall picture and then dive into the details of the possibilities to integrate Canvas Apps into Business Central (see https://joshanglesea.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/business-central-embedded-canvas-app/ for Josh's original blog post on that topic). In the end, Josh also shares the recent AI advancements that came to the Power Platform.

Send us a textArtificial Intelligence is by far the most dominant topic in IT currently. In this episode, Jacob Winther, Design Lead for Business Central, and Mike Borg Cardona, Product Manager for everything productivity in Business Central, join the show to discuss AI in Business Central. We start by talking AI in general and how it will impact all of us, then we look deeper into the recently introduced AI functionality in Business Central, including the new prompt dialog and the Business Central Copilot. Jacob and Mike also share their learning curve on AI and what they see coming next.

Send us a textA lot of customers and partners are working on and with Business Central Online every day, but why and how can it handle that load and get amazingly close to 100 % availability? In this episode, Christian Heide Damm, Cloud Architect and Esteban Ardaya Heckl, Principal Software Engineer, both working on the Business Central team, join the show to give us a look under the hood. We talk scalability and how the service reacts to increasing load, and also what happens if an issue appears and how it is mitigated.

Send us a textShannon Mullins, Dmitry Katson and Steve Chinksy talk about their highlights of day 1 at Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon: Of course, a lot of AI and Copilots, but also the scale of Business Central Online, the new partner programs announced by Microsoft and a lot more.

Send us a textCarme Cortada, Leen Everaerts and Patricia Maia join this episode recorded on day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon. We talk about Women in Dynamics, how and why it was started, what the goals are and how it is progressing. We also talk about their T.H.I.S framework (check out https://www.womenindynamics.org/ to find out more) and what Dynamics partners should do to become a more diverse and inclusive environment.