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Erik Darling makes your database faster in exchange for money. He is a DBA, developer, and architect with a track record of tackling even the most challenging of technical issues. He runs a SQL Server Consulting and Coaching practice. In addition to his consulting services, he is also passionate about blogging, training, and contributing to open-source projects that help with SQL Server troubleshooting. He's given many public speaking engagements on the topic at conferences and events around the world, like PASS Summit and SQLBits.

Website - https://erikdarling.com/
Twitter - https://x.com/erikdarlingdata
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/ErikDarlingData
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/darling-data/
LinkedIn 2 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-darling-data/
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@darling.data
BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/erikdarling.com

Trainings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-l2PxUidI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikbtpVZS2s
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2022/

Previous Guest on the Azure DevOps Podcast: 
Episode 315 – Erik Darling: Database Technical Debt 

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Chris Woodruff, or as his friends call him, Woody, is a software architect of over 25 years. Woody loves software engineering, especially allowing applications and services to communicate across networks and through Web APIs. He has received Microsoft MVP awards in SQL, Data and C# in the past, along with multiple years of being awarded the AWS Community Builder Award. He's a current board member of the .NET Foundation Woody lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he explores the many breweries in West Michigan and travels with his family. Woody is also a long-time bourbon fan and loves hunting for whiskey bottles.

Website - https://woodruff.dev/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chriswoodruff/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/cwoodruff
Simplicity-First Website - https://simplicity-first.dev/

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:

Episode 262 - Chris "Woody" Woodruff: Network Programming https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/chris-woody-woodruff-network-programming-episode-262

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Jonathan Tower — known to friends and colleagues simply as "J." — is the founding partner of Trailhead Technology Partners, a custom software consulting firm with employees across the U.S., Europe, and South America. A 12-time Microsoft MVP for .NET and a Telerik Developer Expert, J. brings nearly 25 years of industry experience spanning roles from senior architect to director of development. He was recently elected to the .NET Foundation Board of Directors for the 2026–2027 term and is the driving force behind Beer City Code, Western Michigan's largest professional software conference. J. is also a LinkedIn Learning course author and an active speaker at software conferences around the world; including being a speaker at the most recent .NET Conf.
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtower/
Website - https://www.jtower.com/
Trailhead Technology Website - https://trailheadtechnology.com/
Trailhead Technology Events - https://trailheadtechnology.com/events
Trailhead Technology Blogs - https://trailheadtechnology.com/blog
Beer City Code- https://beercitycode.com/

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:

Episode 371 - Software Leadership with Jonathan "J." Tower https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/software-leadership-with-jonathan-j-tower-episode-371
Episode 263 - J. Tower: Modernization Strangler Fig Pattern https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/j-tower-modernization-strangler-fig-pattern-episode-263

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Ryan Riley is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Quorum Software in Houston, TX, with deep expertise in functional programming, software architecture, and web API design across the .NET ecosystem. He is a Microsoft Visual F# MVP and longtime open-source contributor, best known for his work on projects such as Frank, WebApiContrib, and the Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN) specification. Ryan leads the Community for F# virtual user group and is an active blogger, having recently published a thought-provoking piece in March 2026 examining AI-assisted spec-driven development and its relationship to Agile and historical software practices. He brings a thoughtful, systems-level perspective to software engineering leadership, mentoring, and team-building that spans front-end UX through back-end distributed applications.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanriley/
GitHub: https://github.com/panesofglass
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/panesofglass

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:

Ryan Riley: Leading a Software Engineering Team - Episode 316 (September 23, 2024) 

The Power of 10 Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_10:_Rules_for_Developing_Safety-Critical_CodeDevelopment Process using AI

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Today I've have Gaurav Seth with us — he's a product executive at Microsoft working on fundamentally redefining how software gets built and scaled. He's been bringing agentic AI into every stage of the develop‑deploy‑operate cycle, both for Microsoft's internal engineering teams and for developers building on the platform. He's hands-on building AI agents into GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio, working on evaluation systems that improve model quality, and shaping core platforms that power Azure, Microsoft 365, Windows, Xbox, and LinkedIn.
Right now, he's focused on some of the hardest problems in the industry — what it looks like to move from manual to AI-driven development, how to measure and improve agent performance at scale, how to make massive codebases understandable to LLMs, and what the future of developer workflows looks like in an agent-first world. Before this, he helped lead some major shifts — from Edge's move to Chromium, to scaling TypeScript into one of the most widely used languages in the world, to evolving Visual Studio's business model and growing .NET in a crowded market. He operates end-to-end — from product strategy and engineering to go-to-market, partnerships, and enterprise adoption — and has a unique ability to connect deep technical innovation with real-world impact. 
Mentioned in this Episode
LinkedIn
X / Twitter 
.NET Blog (author page) 
Foundry Local: Onyx w/ Ollama 
VSCode Agent Pane 
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