Scott Hanselman Podcasts

Sarah Rainsberger owns technical documentation at Astro. What was her path into open source and technology? It might surprise you. Sarah started as an avid user of the Astro project and turned it into a career. She chats with scott about how important technical writing and documentation is to the end user experience.…

Katherine Lu joins Scott Hanselman to explore the new capabilities of Elastic SAN, a new storage offering that offers a scalable, cost-effective, high-performance, and comprehensive storage solution for a range of compute options. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:41 - What is Azure Elastic SAN? 03:05 - Azure Elastic SAN capabilities 05:15 - Azure E…

Saghar Salehi is a former member of the Afghan girls’ robotics team. The team became a symbol for the progress of Afghan women. They participated in the global robotics competition held in the US in 2017 and won an award for “courageous achievement” given to teams who persevere through trying circumstances. The team was able to escape Afghanistan a…

Dr. Julie Gurner is a doctor of psychology and executive performance coach with nearly a decade of experience working with some of the nation’s top tech and finance executives and teams. She is the founder of the Ultra Successful, a newsletter that provides insights into the psychology behind what ultra-successful people do differently to achieve t…

Tom Kerkhove joins Scott Hanselman for a hands-on experience to demonstrate how enterprises can make the transition to API-first architectures and microservices in a hybrid, multicloud world with the self-hosted gateway in Azure API Management. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:03 - Concepts 06:38 - Demo setup 10:46 - Demo self-hosted gateway 23:09 …

Ankita Kulkarni has taken the learnings from her career as an engineering leader and turned it into a course, community, and ebook. Scott talks to Ankita about the The Engineering Leader's Playbook. As a leader working in tech for over a decade, she's got lots to share in this episode! Visit Ankita's website, with a custom page for Hanselminutes Po…

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Nicki Washington, a Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Duke University. She shares her insights on how identity and cultural competence affect the computing disciplines, from education to industry, and why they are essential for developing inclusive and ethical technologies. We also discuss her coursewa…

Harold Campos joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can use Azure Logic Apps to build native integration solutions for mainframes and midranges, including IBM DB2, Host Files, CICS, IMS, MQ, 3270 systems, and many more. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:27 - A brief history of mainframes and midranges 03:21 - Mainframe modernization 04:28 - Azure Lo…

Scott sits down with Ted Neward to talk about the history and shape of data. From mainframes to ER diagrams to SQL Server to Object Databases and Document Databases, why has the way we access and store data changed over the years and what we can learn from this history?By Scott Hanselman

Ben Murphy joins Scott Hanselman to walk through Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) Insights, which is a native monitoring solution that gives you visibility into connection characteristics and optimization opportunities for your AVD environment. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Macro and micro analysis 01:33 - Overview tab 03:33 - Connection Diagnos…

Scott talks to Anders Hejlsberg about a new open-source project called TypeChat that uses TypeScript types to generate structured AI responses from natural language requests. The library is designed to integrate large language models into existing app interfaces and make them safer and more reliable.…

Liam Cavanagh joins Scott Hanselman to explain vector search in Azure Cognitive Search. Vector search is a method of searching for information within various data types, including image, audio, text, video, and more. It determines search results based on the similarity of numerical representations of data, called vector embeddings. Unlike keyword m…

Scott chats with engineer, community leader, and Developer Relations Lead at Okta Corey Weathers on this episode. Shares his story about how he became interested in technology, we get a glimpse into his daily work and how he manages his teams and nurtures the next generation of developer advocate.By Scott Hanselman

Olivia Al Joundi and Sudhanva Huruli join Scott Hanselman to discuss the recently announced Azure Linux for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Azure Linux is Microsoft's Linux distribution and is Generally Available for use as an OS option in AKS. It provides added security, performance, and quality benefits for your Linux based Kubernetes workloads. …

Franchesca Ramsey is an comedian, writer, actor, producer, activist, and content creator. She's also a proud Union Member of both the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). She sits down with Scott to talk about the importance of unions, what it means to be a "work…

Rong Zhang and Tatsat Mishra join Scott Hanselman to talk about the latest updates for the AKS extension in VS Code that provides a fully integrated developer experience with Azure Kubernetes Services. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Overview with Rong 02:30 - Demo with Tats 11:22 - Content to get started 12:45 - Wrap-up Recommended resources…

Veni Kunche is a coder, a maker, and a founder. After working as a Software Engineer since 2003, she quit her job in tech to start her own company, https://www.diversifytech.com!By Scott Hanselman

In this episode, we talk to Oren Eini from RavenDB. RavenDB is a NoSQL document database that offers high performance, scalability, and security. Oren shares his insights on why performance is not just a feature, but a service that developers and customers expect and demand. He also explains how RavenDB achieves fast and reliable data access, how i…

This episode of Hanselminutes is in partnership with the ACM Bytecast podcast! In this episode, we have a special guest: Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet, co-founder of 3Com, and recipient of the 2022 Turing Award. Bob joins us to share his insights on the history and future of computer networking, and his current work in geothermal power! ht…

In this episode, we talk to Jasmine Greenaway, a software engineer at Microsoft and the author of Fundamentals for Self-Taught Programmers, a book that helps aspiring developers learn the essential skills and concepts of programming. She gives us some tips and advice on how to learn effectively, how to build a portfolio, and how to network and find…

Sean Noyes, Senior Cloud Solutions Architect from Redis, joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the latest advancements in Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise. Developers can enhance their applications with efficient index searching and global backups for cached data, all while reducing costs. Learn more about these new capabilities, including Active-Active…

Dr. Kate Miltner is a researcher and lecturer in data ai and society at the information school at the University of Sheffield. Her work explores issues of power and inequality in digital systems and cultures. She's currently slowing "who's coding?" and how did they start coding, as she examines coding boot camps across the US and UK. https://www.wh…

Parikshit Savjani joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the evolution of Azure Database for MySQL, an open-source MySQL database on Azure. The conversation focuses on the journey from the Single Server deployment model to the new and improved Flexible Server offering, which represents a fully managed MySQL database-as-a-service (PaaS or DBaaS) running o…

Danica Fine is a Senior Developer Advocate at Confluent. She is a big fan of the power of data and has deep expertise in Apache Kafka. She chats with Scott about the importance of a strongly architected data platform and gives tips on when you need to move from the basics of SQL to a true data rich environment that includes data streaming products.…

Davide Mauri and Thomas Gauvin join Scott Hanselman to show how building a full-stack or JAMstack solution has never been so easy. Using Azure Static Web apps and the newly released Data API builder (also available as an open-source project), you can add REST and GraphQL APIs to your database in a minute, including pagination, sorting, filtering, a…

In this episode, I'm joined by Florin Rotar, the Chief Technology Officer at Avanade, and Chris Lloyd-Jones, the Head of Open Technologies at Avanade. We'll be talking about how AI is evolving from being a tool to being a partner as well as the announcements we heard at Microsoft BUILD in Seattle!By Scott Hanselman

Simplify your Kubernetes development process with automated deployments for AKS powered by Draft. With just a few clicks, automated deployments take care of the tedious work of containerization so that you can focus on bringing your app to life. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting out, automated deployments make it easy to run your…

Nanxi Liu is a serial entrepreneur and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. She is the co-founder and co-CEO of Blaze, a platform that enables teams to build software with no code. In this episode, Nanxi reveals how she launched and scaled multiple successful businesses across different industries. She also shares her insights on how to raise capital, hir…

Rory Preddy joins Scott Hanselman to demonstrate how to develop Java applications on Azure using a variety of tools and services. He shows how to use Visual Studio Code (VS Code), to write and debug Java code. He shows how to use GitHub Codespaces, a cloud-based development environment, to write and test your code directly in the browser. Finally, …

With the rise of Mastodon as a Twitter alternative, Daniel Roe, part of the Nuxt core team, joins Scott to talk about building Elk, a Mastodon client that was built using Nuxt. The app is a PWA (Progressive Web App) and behaves as natively as a web app can! How did they do it? https://roe.dev https://twitter.com/danielcroe https://github.com/daniel…

Tulika Chaudharie joins Scott Hanselman to introduce and demonstrate the power of WordPress on Azure App Service. See how easy it is to deploy and manage your WordPress sites, running on the familiar Azure App Service and using Microsoft's MySQL flexible server service for your content and data. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 00:53 - WordPress on Ap…

Toi B. Wright is an independent consultant who has been working as a software developer for over 25 years. She has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon. She is the author of two editions of 'Blazor WebAssembly by Example: A project-based guide to building web apps wi…