Best MS Dev Podcasts (2025)

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Improving Legacy Applications with Billy Hollis 1:01:52

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Can you improve a legacy application? What's the right way to go about it? Carl and Richard talk with Billy Hollis about his work updating legacy applications, starting with the most essential question: should you? Billy begins by defining what it means to be a legacy application and how, invariably, these applications are critical to the organizat…

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Copilot Adoption in Financial Services with Christina Wheeler 35:34

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What can the financial services sector teach us about adopting Copilot in our organizations? Richard chats with Christina Wheeler about her work at Microsoft, where she helps companies leverage large language model technologies. Christina discusses data security, which is crucial in the financial services industry due to its numerous regulations. T…

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Jeff Fritz on .NET Aspire and CoPilot Agents

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Jeff Fritz (Microsoft) joins me to talk about .NET Aspire, CoPilot Agents and Vibe programming. This is a show not to miss; his enthusiasm is catching and his knowledge is astonishing.By Jesse Liberty

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Event Sourcing with Hannes Lowette 1:05:00

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How can event sourcing help your applications? Carl and Richard speak with Hannes Lowette about his work in helping developers utilize event sourcing patterns to build scalable applications. Hannes discusses moving away from the old habit of decomposing data from objects into rows, columns, and tables, as there's no reason to save that disk space a…

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From ClickOps to DevOps with Steven Bucher 32:35

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How do you get from ClickOps to DevOps? While at Build, Richard chatted with Steven Bucher about using Copilot in Azure to help build PowerShell scripts with Azure CLI to get you moving down the path of repeatable deployment. Steven talks about interacting with Copilot in Azure through the Portal, Azure CLI, and PowerShell. Using tools like GitHub …

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Workplace Wellness ('Uncovering' what is well...and what is not!) 19:44

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Send us a text Here is what you will learn in today's episode: What wellness program are intended to do Why they are so important for staff and company success Why most wellness programs are falling short of their goals What is working in 2025 - and what is not What's actually going on with employees that's damaging their health and costing compani…

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AI Concerns with Mark Seemann 54:00

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Do you have AI concerns? So does Mark Seemann! Carl and Richard chat with Mark about his views on the impact that large language models are having on the development community. Mark starts with the power of ChatGPT to be perceived as a source of truth, which we know isn't true! How does this ultimately impact the development of software? You need s…

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Copilot Studio with April Dunnam 35:43

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How do you bring AI agents to your organization? Richard chats with April Dunnam about her experiences with Copilot Studio, Microsoft's tool for building various agents for your organization. April discusses the multiple approaches available today for utilizing generative AI and the benefits of leveraging template-driven and low-code solutions to c…

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Progressive Web Apps in 2025 with Lemon 57:19

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How do you build progressive web apps in 2025? Carl and Richard talk to Lemon about his experiences building all sorts of PWAs for customers and entertainment. Lemon discusses going beyond the icon in PWAs and leveraging more powerful features, including service workers. The conversation also digs into some of the crazy talks done over the years, a…

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Fabric in 2025 with Arun Ulag 34:13

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What's happening with Fabric in 2025? While at Build, Richard chatted with Arun Ulag about the fantastic progress Fabric has made in the past year. Arun discusses expanding the product line beyond analytics to include real-time intelligence and hosting primary data workloads. The goal is to make it incredibly easy to get your organization's "data e…

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How FMTs, Coprophagia and the Milk Microbiome Inform Wildlife Conservation With Sally Bornbusch 48:09

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Sally Bornbusch, Ph.D., is an NSF postdoctoral fellow in biology conducting microbial ecology research in animal care and conservation at the Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute. She discusses how FMTs are being used to mitigate health concerns in wild animals in captivity, shares key findings about the milk microbiome from th…

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A Better AI Development Assistant with Mark Miller 1:01:36

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How can AI tech help you write better code? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about the latest AI features coming in CodeRush. Mark talks about focusing on a fast and cost-effective AI assistant driven by voice, so you don't have to switch to a different window and type. The conversation delves into the rapid evolution of software development, u…

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Building Real Software using PowerApps with Luise Freese 38:35

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How does a PowerApp become a fully-fledged software application? Richard chats with Luise Freese about her experience of taking a PowerApp built by an individual through the "onboarding process" of becoming a complete software application, including requirements, tests, deployment pipeline, security, user training, and more. It's easy to create a p…

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Episode 177 - Five and a Half Enhancements in SQL Server 2025 29:18

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Guy and Eitan discuss Stephen Planck's blog post "Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice", and add some of their own insights. Relevant links: Five SQL Server 2025 Enhancements DBAs Will Notice - SQL Table Talk Configure a flexible automatic failover policy for an availability group - SQL Server Always On | Microsoft Learn Accelerated D…

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Thinking Agentic AI with Seth Juarez 57:36

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Ready for a great explanation of Agentic AI? For the last show at Build, Carl and Richard sit down with Seth Juarez to dig into what agentic AI really is - and how you can take advantage of it! Seth discusses the potential of MCP and NLWeb to enable agents to work with each other, as well as the challenges of managing these tools effectively. The c…

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More Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich 30:18

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How has Azure been innovating lately? While at Build Richard chatted with Azure CTO Mark Russinovich about some of the latest innovations in Azure, including some of the new hardware available. Mark talks about working with hardware manufacturers to build servers optimized to the workloads the largest Azure customers need. The conversation also exp…

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The Imagine Cup Finalists from Build! 41:01

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It's the Imagine Cup Finalists! While at Build, Carl and Richard sat down with Daniel Kim, Matt Steele, and Gheida Omar to talk about their projects in the Imagine Cup. Gheida discussed Signvrse, a mobile app that enables real-time translation of speech, text, and sign language. Matt tells the story of Hairmatch, a mobile app for women with texture…

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Getting More from GitHub with April Yoho 33:10

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How do you get more from GitHub in your work routine? Richard chats with April Yoho about how sysadmins can take advantage of more GitHub features to make better quality scripts and more! April discusses the capabilities of GitHub Copilot to assist administrators in comprehending the intricacies of source management, including branching and merging…

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Richie Bonilla and Forage AI Email

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Forage is an AI email assistant that sorts your mail into categories, provides a summary once or twice a day (your choice) and summarizes newsletters into bullet points. I talk with Richie Bonilla (CEO and co-founder)* about his startup, what lead him to create Forage and how it works. https://foragemail.com * Co-founder? Co-Founder? Cofounder?…

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Frictionless Development with Nicole Forsgren 57:50

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How do you eliminate the friction of development? Carl and Richard talk to Nicole Forsgren about her upcoming book on eliminating the friction from software development. Building on her earlier book, Accelerate, Nicole discusses the role of AI technologies in software development, along with more traditional DevOps elements, such as automating test…

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SQL Server 2025 with Bob Ward 25:35

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Here comes SQL Server 2025! While at Build, Richard chatted with Bob Ward about releasing a preview version of SQL Server 2025. Bob discusses SQL Server 2025 as an AI-ready enterprise database with numerous capabilities specifically tailored to your organization's AI needs, including a new vector data type. This includes making REST API calls to Az…

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Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien 49:11

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What happens when AI comes to your web testing tool? While at Build, Carl and Richard talked to Debbie O'Brien about the latest features in Playwright, including Playwright MCP, the model control plane for Playwright capabilities. Debbie talks about using Playwright MCP to buy a table. Ask your LLM what tests should be written for your web page, an…

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Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien 50:00

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What happens when AI comes to your web testing tool? While at Build, Carl and Richard talked to Debbie O'Brien about the latest features in Playwright, including Playwright MCP, the model control plane for Playwright capabilities. Debbie talks about using Playwright MCP to buy a table. Ask your LLM what tests should be written for your web page, an…

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The Case for Telemetry with Liz Fong-Jones 32:17

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How can modern telemetry solutions help you? While at NDC in Melbourne, Richard chatted with Liz Fong-Jones of Honeycomb about her approach to educating leadership on creating great telemetry solutions for organizations. Liz discusses the importance of being able to answer questions about reliability issues without causing problems, as opposed to r…

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Episode 176 - SQL Server 2025 and more 38:14

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Many announcements and interesting releases came out this past month, so we got a lot to talk about in this episode! Relevant links: What's New in SQL Server 2025 - SQL Server | Microsoft Learn SQL Server 2025 - AI ready enterprise database from ground to cloud | Microsoft Community Hub Announcing Public Preview of DiskANN in SQL Server 2025 | Micr…

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Coding Agents with Scott Hunter 54:57

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How will coding agents change your code? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Scott Hunter about the announcements around coding agents at the keynote. Scott talks about the agent mode available in Visual Studio Code - and now in Visual Studio! Agent mode allows the LLM to evaluate the code across an entire solution, not just the file you'…

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CoPilot Agents

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Prepare to have your mind blown. Copilot Agents are powerful AI tools for Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio. Used to CoPilot? — you ain’t seen nothing yet! James Montemagno and Burke Holland of Microsoft discuss how to get it, and how to use it. https://code.visualstudio.com GitHub Copilot for Skeptics Who Still Think AI is Overrated | BRK124 Tw…

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Fixing a Security Vulnerability in Active Directory with Steve Syfuhs 49:33

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Why would a security vulnerability take more than two years to fix? Richard chats with Steve Syfuhs about the evolution of the response to KB5015754. Originally published in 2022, the issue involved vulnerabilities in the on-premises certificate authority for Active Directory. Pushing a fix to force the immediate replacement of the certificates cou…

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Agnostic Diagnostics and the Future of ASM Health With Dev Mittar 41:33

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Dev Mittar, Ph.D., Scientific Director of the ASM Health Scientific Unit discusses the use of metagenomic next generation sequencing to develop agnostic diagnostic technology, giving scientists and clinicians alike, a tool to diagnose any infectious disease with one single test. He also discusses how the ASM Health Unit is empowering scientists and…

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Serverless Elastic with Ken Exner 44:00

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What if you could use ElasticSearch serverless? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Ken Exner about the new announcements around Elastic providing serverless storage and search! Ken talks about paying for only the data you move and store with serverless, rather than needing to operate any infrastructure for Elastic. The conversation digs …

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How to Talk to Security with Sarah Young 35:48

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How do you talk to security? While at NDC Melbourne, Richard chatted with Sarah Young about her approaches to helping folks work with the security team. Often seen as an impediment to business, Sarah talks about what motivates security teams, how to use language to help them understand that you are taking security seriously, and how to get more thi…

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C# Networking with Chris Woodruff 1:05:00

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Do you understand how networking works in C#? Carl and Richard chat with Chris Woody Woodruff about his new book on networking with C#. Chris runs down the fundamentals of networking and then discusses the different approaches readily available in the C# world, including web sockets, gRPC, SignalR, and many more! The conversation also turns to the …

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Episode 451 | AC's New Podcast 1:19

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I'm thrilled to announce my new podcast with my co-host Julie Turner, focused on full-stack web development! Start listening to the first six episodes today! Hey, it’s AC, and thrilled to announce the launch of Code. Deploy. Go Live., a brand-new podcast focused on full stack web development! After months of planning and preparation, we’re ready to…

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PowerShell 7.5 and DSC 3.0.0 with Jason Helmick 36:47

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What's new in PowerShell 7.5? Richard talks to Jason Helmick about the latest version of PowerShell. Jason talks about 7.5 being a version with plenty of community contributions and what that means for everyone. He also discusses 7.6, which will be released as a long-term support version of PowerShell synchronized with .NET 10. Then, on to Desired …

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Backend for Frontend Security Framework with Erwin van der Valk 52:00

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How do you secure browser-based frontends with ASP.NET Core backends? Carl and Richard discuss the Backend for Frontend (BFF) Security Framework with Erwin van der Valk. Erwin talks about Sam Newman's BFF Pattern and how it helps deal with the diversity of clients, including web, desktop, and mobile, to work with a common backend. OAuth 2.0 is capa…

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Mike Kistler (Microsoft) on OpenAPI

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OpenAPI is the framework of choice for documenting APIs OpenAPI support in ASP.NET Core API apps https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/overview?view=aspnetcore-9.0 Generate OpenAPI documents at build-time https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/openapi/aspnetcore-openapi?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visua…

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Active Directory in 2025 with Liz Tesch 34:38

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Active Directory is 25 years old - are you still managing it like it's 1999? Richard talks to Liz Tesch about her excellent blog post on the subject and the challenge many sysadmins have with Active Directory today. Liz talks about how WAN bandwidth was a concern in the early 2000s, so we organized Active Directory into Organizational Units to mini…

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Episode 175 - Migrating from on-prem to AWS RDS 38:59

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Guy talks about a recent migration project he was working on to move an on-prem SQL Server to AWS RDS. Eitan talks about a new AI-related feature in Azure SQL Databases. And we also discuss the new SNAPSHOT backup T-SQL command in SQL Server 2022. Relevant links: Importing and exporting SQL Server databases using native backup and restore - Amazon …