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The AI DevOps Podcast is a show for those shipping software using AI, .NET, Azure, and DevOps. Each show brings you hard-hitting interviews with industry experts, innovating better methods, and sharing success stories. Sponsoring the podcast is Clear Measure, a software architecture and engineering firm that implements AI to empower software teams to establish quality, achieve stability, and increase speed. Hosted by CTO & Chairman, Jeffrey Palermo.

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August 10, 2026Episode 41442 min

Jimmy Bogard: AI-Driven Development - Episode 414

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Today's guest is a true heavyweight in the .NET open-source world — someone whose work has quietly, but profoundly, shaped the way countless developers build software. Jimmy Bogard is the creator and maintainer of two very popular OSS libraries in the .NET ecosystem: AutoMapper and MediatR. If you've ever tried to simplify object mapping or decouple application logic, chances are you've used his tools. Based in Austin, Texas, Jimmy is an independent software consultant and a 15+ year recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award — every year since 2009. AutoMapper alone has been around for 17 years and racked up hundreds of millions of downloads. It started as a personal tool to streamline development for client projects and grew into a global standard for object mapping. Github eShop - https://github.com/jbogard/eShop Jimmy's Github - https://github.com/jbogard AutoMapper Github - https://github.com/AutoMapper/AutoMapper/releases AutoMapper Nuget - https://www.nuget.org/packages/automapper/ MediatR Nuget - https://www.nuget.org/packages/MediatR MediatR Github - https://github.com/jbogard/MediatR/releases Jimmy's Website - https://www.jimmybogard.com/ Jimmy's Website / AutoMapper - https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-licensing-update/ Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 356 Episode 264 Episode 98 Episode 11 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

August 3, 2026Episode 41336 min

John Bristowe: Octopus Catchup - Episode 413

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ John Bristowe brings over 20 years of experience in technology to his role as Developer Advocate at Octopus Deploy. His career includes time at Progress and Microsoft, where he developed his skills in management and technology. Known for a straightforward and engaging style, John often speaks at industry conferences, sharing practical tips and insights. John is a HashiCorp Ambassador and part of the Progress Champions program. He enjoys creating content such as articles, webinars, and podcasts, aiming to help others in the tech community. In his free time, John likes to stay informed about the latest tech developments and shares his learning with an online audience. His approach is always about sharing knowledge and learning together. LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbristowe/ Sessionize Link - https://sessionize.com/john-bristowe/ Octopus Roadmap - roadmap.octopus.com Octopus Blog - https://octopus.com/blog/code-review-is-theater-now I Love Lucy Reference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnHiAWlrYQc Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/john-bristowe-the-latest-from-octopus-deploy-episode-368 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

July 27, 2026Episode 41244 min

Blake Caraway: AI in Business Operations - Episode 412

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Blake Caraway is the General Manager of Texas Multi-Chem, Ltd., a Texas Hill Country company where he has spent over a decade transforming daily operations through technology. With a degree in Computer Information Systems from Southwest Texas State University, Blake began his career as a Programmer Analyst at Dell Technologies, then moved into software architecture at Callaway Golf. He later joined Headspring Systems in Austin, which was later acquired by Accenture, as a Principal Consultant, where he led agile software projects, shaped client-facing architecture, and helped grow the consulting practice. Blake brought that software experience back to his hometown of Kerrville, Texas, where he now leads Texas Multi-Chem — a preeminent sports field contractor of Texas. Blake is using technology to improve internal operations one business process as a time. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakecaraway/ Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

July 20, 2026Episode 41145 min

Michael Nygard: AI - Episode 411

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Michael Nygard advises consulting firms, private equity teams, CTOs, CEOs, and boards when they require senior technology judgment for limited-term, high-impact situations — including architecture assessment, platform rescue, cloud and data cost intervention, AI engineering enablement, technical diligence, divestiture and carve-out architecture, and operating-model redesign. Over a 35-year career, he has worked at the seam where people, processes, organizations, and the systems they build intersect. Most organizations treat those as separate problems. The hardest failures, and the most consequential wins, live precisely where they interact. That through-line is what Release It! is fundamentally about. The vocabulary it introduced — circuit breakers, bulkheads, stability patterns — is now standard in how the industry discusses reliability, and the book is widely cited as foundational to DevOps and cloud-native practice. At Nubank, he led the Data Business Unit with over $300 million in annual spend, then served as Chief Architect with reach across 2,500 engineers while the customer base grew from 75 million to 125 million across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Results included cutting data-platform spend roughly 50% year-over-year, improving on-time data availability past 99%, building governance aligned with LGPD, GDPR, and CCPA, moving team engagement from the bottom decile to the 60th percentile, and rolling out AI coding tools to more than 90% of engineers without customer-visible quality regression. At Sabre, as part of the CTO office, he helped lead development-practice modernization, GCP migration strategy, mainframe offload architecture, technical diligence, and divestiture architecture across thousands of applications and hundreds of products. He is most effective when the stakes are real, the system is sociotechnical, and the solution must hold across architecture, execution, economics, and organizational behavior. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtnygard/ Personal Blog & Website: https://www.michaelnygard.com GitHub: https://github.com/mtnygard Twitter/X: https://x.com/mtnygard Release It! (Pragmatic Programmers): https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/ 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (O'Reilly): https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/97-things-every/9780596800611/ Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6089.Michael_T_Nygard LinkedIn Articles: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/mtnygard Presentations Archive: https://github.com/mtnygard/presentations/wiki Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

July 13, 2026Episode 40849 min

Brady Gaster: Squad AI Agent - Episode 410

Brady Gaster is a Principal PM Architect at GitHub, where he works on Apps, Agents, MIDI, and most notably, Squad — an open-source framework for orchestrating AI agent teams with GitHub Copilot. A longtime contributor to the .NET ecosystem, Brady previously served as Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team, leading work on SignalR, Orleans, microservices, and HTTP APIs. He is the co-creator of Squad, which allows developers to define a team of specialized AI agents that collaborate on real engineering work. When he's not building developer tools, Brady enjoys making music in his basement with synthesizers and guitars, and spending time with his two sons. Website / Blog: https://bradygaster.com/ GitHub: https://github.com/bradygaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradygaster/ Twitter/X: @bradygaster Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 102 — Brady Gaster on SignalR and More Episode 221 — Brady Gaster: Orleans Episode 295 — Brady Gaster: .NET Cloud Native Episode 331 — Brady Gaster: Upgrading .NET apps Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

July 6, 2026Episode 40933 min

Matthew Renze: AI Changes - Episode 409

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Matthew Renze is an AI researcher, consultant, and author, and the founder of Renze Consulting, where he has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals worldwide. He has delivered over 200 keynotes, presentations, and workshops on every continent — including Antarctica — for clients ranging from tech startups to Fortune 500 companies. A nine-time Microsoft MVP in AI, Matthew is also the president of the Renze AI Research Institute, where he studies how self-reflecting large language model agents improve problem-solving performance, trustworthiness, and value alignment. Most recently he was accepted into the Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University, and he featured as an interview subject in the 2026 documentary "AI Everywhere." Website: https://matthewrenze.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrenze/ Twitter/X: @matthewrenze GitHub: https://github.com/matthewrenze (via profile links) Our OpenClaw agent ("Bob") - Bob's website: https://bobrenze.com/ - Bob's blog: https://blog.bobrenze.com/ - Bob's book: https://a.co/d/014kieQI - Agent ranking site: https://agentfolio.io/ Stage 1 - Communicating in steps with an AI assistant - ChatGPT - https://chatgpt.com/ - Claude Chat - https://claude.ai/ Stage 2 - Collaborating on tasks with an AI agent - GitHub Copilot - https://github.com/features/copilot - Claude Code - https://claude.com/product/claude-code - OpenAI Codex - https://openai.com/codex/ Stage 3 - Supervising processes with an agentic workflow - LangChain / LangGraph - https://www.langchain.com/langgraph - Microsoft Agent Workflows - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/ Stage 4 - Managing a project with an autonomous agent - OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/ - Hermes: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/ Stage 5 - Leading a mission with an autonomous agency - PaperClip AI: https://paperclip.ing/ Fireworks AI: https://fireworks.ai/ ---------------------------------- Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast: Episode 44 — Matthew Renze on Data Science for Developers https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/matthew-renze-on-data-science-for-developers-episode-44 Episode 220 — Matthew Renze: Developing Your AI Strategy https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/matthew-renze-developing-your-ai-strategy-episode-220 Episode 249 — Matthew Renze: AI Ethics https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/ai-ethics-with-matthew-renze-episode-249 --------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

June 22, 2026Episode 40740 min

Tamir Dresher: Squad Agent Workflows - Episode 407

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ Tamir Dresher is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft Threat Protection, where he focuses on scaling AI agent systems and distributed architectures, bringing over 15 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems. He is the co-creator of Squad, an open-source multi-agent runtime for GitHub Copilot that orchestrates AI teams directly inside your repository. Tamir is the author of "Rx.NET in Action" (Manning) and "Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core" (Packt), and has been a lecturer in Software Engineering at the Ruppin Academic Center since 2013. A prominent figure in the Israeli and international developer communities, he is a Microsoft MVP alumnus who speaks frequently at global conferences and writes actively on his blog at tamirdresher.com. Website / Blog - https://www.tamirdresher.com/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamirdresher/ GitHub: https - //github.com/tamirdresher Twitter/X - @tamir_dresher Blog Post - https://www.tamirdresher.com/blog/2026/05/24/squad-watch-extensions-customer-success Github - https://github.com/bradygaster/squad Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

June 15, 2026Episode 40637 min

Erik Darling: T-SQL Architecture - Episode 406

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ 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 Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

June 8, 2026Episode 40548 min

Chris "Woody" Woodruff: AI-Assisted Software Architecture - Episode 405

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ 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 ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

June 1, 2026Episode 40436 min

J. Tower: A.I. Workflows - Episode 404

https://clearmeasure.com/developers/forums/ 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 ---------------------------------------- Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.