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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 Azure DevOps Services Team, he's working on Azure Boards, and is helping to build that integration between GitHub and Azure Boards.

In this week's episode, Jeffrey and Matt will be discussing GitHub with Azure Boards. They talk about the level of integration that's going to be in Azure Boards (how they're thinking about things right now and where they want to go), their efforts towards new project workflow and integration for Azure Boards, and the timeline Matt's team is looking at for these changes. Matt also gives his pitch for GitHub as the future premiere offering and why you should consider migrating.

Topics of Discussion:

[:47] About today's show with Matt Mitrik.

[1:13] Matt speaks about his background in the space and how he landed at Microsoft.

[3:54] What works now with Azure Boards? And where does Matt want it to be?

[8:33] What's the process for moving something from Azure Repos to GitHub and vice versa? Would Matt recommend moving from Azure Repos to GitHub?

[11:03] Where does the pull request feature fit in? With the work in Azure Boards or where the Git repository goes?

[13:55] When a new feature is being implemented, is the right place for journaling within the user story or within the pull request?

[18:34] Matt speaks about the level of integration that's going to be in Azure Boards; how they're thinking about things right now and where they want to go.

[22:35] A word from The Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[23:01] Matt talks about their efforts towards new project workflow and integration for Azure Boards.

[24:41] The timeframe Matt's team is looking at for these new changes.

[25:05] The strides Matt's team is taking with regards to integration between GitHub and Azure DevOps properties.

[27:02] From a strategy perspective, what's Matt's pitch for GitHub being the future premiere offering and why you should migrate?

[35:20] Matt talks about future options for customer feedback within Azure Boards.

[39:04] What Matt recommends listeners follow-up on if they want to learn more.

[40:34] Matt teases the next big thing on the horizon for his team.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

Matt Mitrik (LinkedIn)

The Azure DevOps Podcast episode: "Phil Haack on DevOps at GitHub"

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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 of Engineering at GitHub. Now, most recently, he has founded his own company, Haacked, which he started to mentor software organizations to be the best version of themselves.

In today's episode, your host, Jeffrey Palermo, and Phil Haack, dive deep into discussing DevOps at GitHub. They talk about his role as Director of Engineering; how GitHub, as a company, grew while Phil worked there; the inner workings of how the GitHub website ran; and details about how various protocols, continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment worked at GitHub.

Topics of Discussion:

[:48] About today's episode with Phil Haack.

[1:10] Phil talks about how he became the Program Manager at Microsoft in charge of ASP.NET MVC and NuGet, and what the role entailed.

[4:00] The transformation Phil helped lead that continues to affect .NET developers today!

[5:35] Phil shares the high points of his career at GitHub.

[7:56] How Phil's role at GitHub developed, and how (and why) GitHub went from "no managers and no meetings" to hiring on managers and starting meetings.

[12:10] When did GitHub start to distribute regionally?

[13:43] How many leased offices did GitHub crop up while Phil worked there?

[15:25] What Phil is currently working on since leaving GitHub!

[17:27] About the new book Phil is writing about GitHub.

[20:07] Major strategic decisions and key aspects that gave GitHub the ability to put out features at a really fast clip for a really long time (with an incredible quality track record to boot!)

[24:18] A word from The Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[24:44] Architecturally, is GitHub.com one website or essentially two hundred different web applications that make up all the URLs of the website?

[26:50] Was there a standard pipeline structure that GitHub maintained (or a common set of steps), or was it moreso a ship-it-however-you-can protocol per service?

[27:50] If Phil had multiple services in the client application, did he have a separate Git repository for each one of those, OR, one Git repository for his team with multiple, independent services?

[29:52] Did every continuous integration build have its own Git repository?

[32:30] What types and quantity of automated testing did Phil pack into the continuous integration (CI) build?

[33:48] Phil highlights some significant things that happened in the CI build step.

[34:31] Did Phil find any good frameworks that worked out in the UI space?

[35:02] What an automated test can't tell you and why it's so crucial to have a really good tester!

[36:15] When they did have automated deployment between environments, what tools and methods did Phil use for those deployments?

[38:04] For the services they were going to deploy to GitHub servers, how many environments did Phil set up in the deployment pipeline ahead of production?

[41:07] The major tools on the deployment side when Phil was working at GitHub.

[43:44] What Phil recommends listeners to follow-up on to continue their research!

Mentioned in this Episode:

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

Phil Haack (LinkedIn)

Haacked

MVC Framework

GitHub for Dummies, by Sarah Guthals and Phil Haack

Hubot

Ruby on Rails

Scientist.NET

Electron

ChatOps

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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 throughout his career and is the President of TampaDev a community meetup that runs #TampaCC, Azure User Group, Azure Medics, and various technology events throughout Tampa.

The previous episode Greg was on (episode 019 - "Greg Leonardo on Architecting, Developing, and Deploying the Azure Way") Jeffrey and Greg discussed many topics around deploying in Azure — so in today's episode, they're continuing the conversation — this time getting even deeper into the topic! They're discussing some of the topics from his book, Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way; infrastructure as code; provisioning environments; how to watch your environments; and much more on what developers targeting Azure need to know!

Topics of Discussion:

[:47] About today's episode.

[2:35] Greg highlights what is so unique about deploying the Azure way.

[6:04] A critical piece of the DevOps mindset is automatically provisioning and changing new environments — How does that apply to Azure?

[8:03] What is a run book and how does it work?

[9:10] Do the scripts to create these environments reside in Azure or do they reside in your Git repository?

[10:32] Greg talks about the kinds of issues he finds when software in a system has been in place for a long time and the company is trying to transition to Azure.

[14:00] Why it is so crucial to switch to automated deployment with Azure.

[16:01] A word from The Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[16:25] Greg gives the lowdown on how to monitor or log environments in Azure.

[19:58] Greg breaks down the pieces of what services you need (i.e. app service, Azure SQL, application insights, log analytics, etc.) for what you're monitoring or logging and how he uses them.

[24:26] How many production Azure subscriptions does Greg run?

[27:30] What else Greg thinks developers targeting Azure need to know!

[30:11] Jeffrey and Greg chat and reminisce about old coding and the internet.

[35:37] Does Greg know of any replacements for remote application in Azure?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

Episode 019 - "Greg Leonardo on Architecting, Developing, and Deploying the Azure Way"

Hands-On Cloud Solutions with Azure: Architecting, developing, and deploying the Azure way, by Greg Leonardo

Greg Leonardo (LinkedIn)
GregLeonardo.com

Campus Management Corp.

Webonology

TampaDev

Vets in Tech

Run book

Azure Monitor

Azure Log Analytics

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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 — making her the perfect person to talk all things .NET with Jeffrey today!

In this episode, they discuss whether or not developers should move to .NET Core (or wait until .NET Core 3), the .NET architecture center and resources, and the open source movement. They also discuss Beth's background with .NET, her advice to those coming into the field now, how to become a member or Board member of the .NET Foundation, and more.

Topics of Discussion:

[:45] About today's show with Beth Massi.

[1:02] Beth introduces herself, talks about her career journey, and shares details of her current job and team.

[11:30] Beth's take on whether or not you should move over to .NET Core or wait until .NET Core 3.

[17:06] Beth and Jeffrey talk about how many developers are taking advantage of working in .NET Framework (at least 4.6.1) which allows them to make use of the .NET Core libraries that are compiled for .NET Standard 2.

[19:36] Talking Rockford Lhotka and moving apps .NET Core.

[20:33] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[20:58] About the dot.net architecture center and the resources offered.

[22:26] How is C# doing as far as language popularity?

[25:28] Beth talks languages, which to choose, and C# competitors.

[27:39] Jeffrey and Beth discuss the shift to open source within companies and the open source movement.

[33:20] Beth's advice to those just coming into the field now.

[35:25] Beth explains how to become a part of the .NET Foundation Board, her role at the .NET Foundation, and what she's looking forward to with the foundation.

[37:11] How to become a member of the .NET Foundation.

[38:40] How Jeffrey and Beth hope the .NET Foundation expands.

[40:20] What Beth recommends you follow-up on after listening to today's show!

Mentioned in this Episode:

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

Beth Massi (LinkedIn)

.NET

.NET Foundation

Rockford Lhotka's Blog

CSLA .NET

Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event

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