Jim Leonardo, Head of information technology at biBerk Insurance, discusses leadership in software development. Topics include the shortage of software leaders, career progression, T-shaped development, importance of testing, understanding customers, the Innovator’s Dilemma, learning from diverse experiences, and the value of minimum viable products (MVPs) in software development.

Ted Neward, known as “The Dude of Software” and “Dr. Gregory House of Software,” shares insights on building a tribe, leveraging networks, effective software team management, and the importance of team success over individual success. He emphasizes compassion in management, recognizing and developing management skills, and the need for direct communication with executives for successful software delivery.

Dan Garfield, Co-founder of Codefresh, discusses his journey in technology, the importance of Kubernetes, and the creation of Argo CD. Topics include unified software delivery, GitOps Principles, managing microservices, and the role of Argo in the balance with Codefresh. Also, insights on the slow adoption of .NET developers, environment management, promotion workflows, and GitOps Certification.

Experienced technologist Richard Campbell discusses podcasting advice, AI limitations, autonomous trucks, user experience improvement with machine learning, impact of automation on software development jobs, habits vs. wisdom, and the future of augmented reality.

An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD, and PST, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil has been working with .NET since the first betas, developing software for over 35 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005 as well as a Professional Scrum Trainer. Phil has taken over the best-selling Pro C# books (Apress Publishing), including Pro C# 10, is the President of the Cincinnati .NET User’s Group (Cinnug.org), and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosted the Hallway Conversations podcast (Hallwayconversations.com), founded and runs the CincyDeliver conference (Cincydeliver.org), and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. During the day, Phil works as the CTO for Pintas & Mullins. Phil always enjoys learning new tech and is always striving to improve his craft.   Topics of Discussion: [3:47] Philip’s career journey and why he’s still hands-on coding. [5:37] Sometimes it’s not a technical problem, but a process or human interaction problem. [6:37] Philip’s love of mentoring. [8:18] The importance of collaboration. [9:53] Challenges in migrating applications from .NET Framework to .NET Core. [12:55] The importance of staying current. [14:48] Modernizing legacy web applications using .NET Core. [19:22] Rebuilding an old app using new technology, with challenges and lessons learned. [24:22] Gradually introducing a new screen using feature flags is better than a "big bang" rewrite. [26:01] Continuous deployment helps to roll out new features gradually to limited users. [27:53] Differences between the .NET framework and .NET Core apps, including configuration settings to environmental awareness. [34:59] Philip’s favorite resources to dig into, including his book. [41:20] The power of collaborative learning.   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! “Philip Japikse: Professional C# in .NET - Episode 230”   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.  

Brady Gaster is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team at Microsoft where he works on Orleans, SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes of making it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud!   Topics of Discussion: [2:49] Brady’s career highlights and how throwing parties prepared him for Microsoft. [4:07] History of Microsoft’s publishing tools and their evolution towards cloud-native development. [7:37] Using Azure Container Apps for containerization and publishing to Kubernetes. [13:42] Using Aspire for containerized applications in Azure, including toolchain and orchestration. [17:36] Simplifying software development with automation. [23:27] Azure subscriptions and provisioning for developers. [25:38] AZD infra synth. [26:15] Using Azure DevOps and Azure Development Environments for named environments in .NET development. [30:39] The system of record for the names of the environments. [37:13] What we can look forward to with the next release. [38:37] What should we know about Microsoft Learn so far?   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! “Brady Gaster: Orleans — Episode 221” NET Aspire Preview 4 .NET Aspire Documentation Brady Gaster   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Raziel is the Senior Vice President of Codefresh at Octopus Deploy. He is an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, and software developer at heart. He is the Founder of Codefresh and is passionate about accelerating the way software is disrupting our day-to-day life by simplifying the way we deploy applications.   Topics of Discussion: [2:23] When Raziel first got interested in making a difference in the industry. [3:05] The role of the software developer has evolved over time. [7:11] What is GitOps? [14:46] Overlap with the concept of infrastructure as code. [14:57] Simplifying software deployment using GitOps. [20:44] Why it’s an exciting time to be in software development. [22:55] What can we do with Codefresh? [25:24] Does Codefresh work with other infrastructure types? [26:29] Storing and managing application configuration and infrastructure code in separate Git repositories. [29:10] What are the most common reasons this infrastructure repository would have a commit pushed to it? [35:27] Codefresh joining Octopus Deploy.   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Codefresh OpenGitOps   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.  

Glenn is a Principal Product Manager for the App Platform team within the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Glenn was a developer in Australia where he worked on software for various government departments.   Topics of Discussion: [2:47] Glenn’s career path. [6:33] The old .NET vs the new .NET. [8:09] .NET was initially Windows-only but is now being rebuilt as open-source, cross-platform software. [9:40] The evolution of .NET. [9:53] .NET core. [14:04] New features and ideas presented at .NET Conf. [16:26] Aspire. [18:58] Every piece of an Aspire solution uses open Telemetry as a standard. [19:26] Redis.  [27:15] Aspire knows all the “what’ and “how” to deploy to the cloud, without explicit cloud knowledge. [32:36] The intent of AZD. [36:57] Handling the components of Aspire. [40:21] How to add custom resources to Aspire. [41:00] Opinionated vs non-opinionated development in the .NET ecosystem.   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Glenn Condron on New Capabilities on .NET - Ep 58 Glenn C GitHub DevBlogs Glenn C Building Cloud Native Apps with .NET 8 Introducing .NET Aspire   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Richard Hundhausen helps software organizations and teams deliver better products by understanding and leveraging Azure DevOps and Scrum. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Scrum Developer, author of Professional Scrum with Azure DevOps (MS Press), and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Scrum framework. As a software developer and consultant with over 30 years of experience, he understands that software is built and delivered by people and not by processes or tools.   Topics of Discussion: [3:03] Is it really that easy to teach developers? [3:34] Scrum implementation and best practices for developers and managers. [5:11] What is a Scrum trainer and developer? [6:40] Reminding teams to talk to each other and deliver value earlier. [6:47] Remembering not just the nouns, but the verbs: improve, collaborate, share, love the values, commit, have courage, be open, have focus, and be respectful. [8:39] The importance of having the right teams. [12:04] Improving software development efficiency through cross-functional teams. [13:47] The importance of being a self-managing team. [15:04] When we outsource everything to HR to find a good culture, that can perpetuate the “it’s someone else’s job” mentality. [15:24] Bigger companies vs. smaller companies. [17:44] Giving creatives the space to create. [21:09] HDD (Hypothesis-driven development) can help us learn early and adapt. [29:27] The importance of focusing on outcomes and impacts, rather than just measuring resources, activities, and outputs. [31:08] Outcomes and impacts are where we should be focused. [32:40] One percent of product owners using Scrum as intended? [33:27] Even if you don’t have a product owner, have someone who orders the work.   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Accentient Upgrade Your Team Daniel Pink Practicing Hypothesis-Driven Development in Azure DevOps “Richard Hundhausen on Professional Scrum — Ep 100”   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

Mads is the Lead Designer of the C# language and has been at Microsoft for 18 years. Prior to this, Mads was a professor and contributed to a language starting with J. He was previously on episode 164 of the podcast where he spoke about the latest on C# at the time.   Topics of Discussion: [3:40] The serendipitous career path Mads took that led him to C# and Microsoft. [6:17] Where are the high points of where the C# language has gone over the past six months? [7:40] Adding a unified syntax. [10:00] Primary constructors. [15:43] Some new features in C# are still too early to see their full impact, but we can still have hypotheses about how they will affect programming. [16:14] Non-nullable conversion. [21:45] Learning C# and its evolution. [23:24] The concept of everyday C#. [26:15] C# goals. [33:02] Does C# have a clear category? [39:41] Generative AI. [41:16] AI's impact on coding and the impact generative AI is having on development. [47:17] Will AI replace the career opportunities for developers? [51:21] Acknowledging the disruptive nature of AI with also the belief that it will lead to societal changes, including job displacement, and hopes for environmentally sustainable productivity gains.   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us at programming@palermo.net. Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Github.com/CSharplang Ep #164: Mads Torgersen on C#10 and .NET6 Microsoft C# documentation   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.