Window on Technology

Window on Technology is a podcast hosted by Tobias Fenster (tobiasfenster.io) on which typically one expert takes about a specific technology area, either as an introduction or to share the latest news or big changes coming up.

Carme Cortada and Søren Friis Alexandersen - Diversity in Dynamics

Send us a textCarme Cortada and Søren Friis Alexandersen join in another episode recorded directly at Directions EMEA to discuss Diversity in Dynamics, formerly known as Women in Dynamics. We discuss the recent change towards a broader focus on Diversity in general, why and how that happened and what it means for the organization in the future. We also talk about ways to get involved and why now is a great moment to do so. Last but not least Søren talks about his own story and why he shared i...

11-08
17:27

Shannon Mullins, Björn Zahnow and Mats Necker - Organizing Community events

Send us a textShannon Mullins, Björn Zahnow and Mats Necker join this episode directly at Directions EMEA in Vienna to discuss community events. They discuss the challenges this brings, the dos and don'ts for speakers, how Microsoft influences things in our ecosystem and the events they like most. And of course they touch upen Directions EMEA itself

11-08
25:27

Marco Heimeshoff - Domain-Driven Design

Send us a textMarco Heimeshoff, trainer, speaker and software developer, joins the show to discuss Domain-Driven Design. Where does it come from, why does it matter, how can you implement it and how can you get started with it. He also shares his community activities like the KanDDDinsky conference and the Virtual Domain-Driven Design Community at VirtualDDD.com

08-22
48:33

Thorsten Hans - WebAssembly, Spin and Fermyon

Send us a textThorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, joins the show to discuss WebAssembly in general and specifically the news around Spin and SpinKube. We discuss when to use Spin, what the CNCF contribution of SpinKube means and what the future could bring in the WebAssembly world.

07-17
44:21

Natalie Karolak and Krzysztof Bialowas - BC TechDays 2024

Send us a textNatalie Karolak, Product Architect at COSMO CONSULT and MVP Alumni, and Krzysztof Bialowas, Business Central Team Leader at Dynaway and MVP, join this episode directly from day 2 of BC TechDays 2024. We discuss news and highlights of the conference, of course touch on AI and explain why we all like the conference so much.

06-14
14:21

Adrian Mouat, James Spurin and Nigel Poulton - Docker Captains Summit 2024

Send us a textAdrian Mouat, James Spurin and Nigel Poulton join to discuss the 2024 Docker Captains Summit in Lisbon, what we have seen and heard and how we expect that to impact the future

06-11
18:17

Vivian Voss - DynamicsMinds 2024 and co-creation in Power Apps

Send us a textVivian Voss, freelance Solution Architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP, joins the show to talk about the second year of DynamicsMinds in Portoroz, Slovenia, as well as a couple of topics around the Power Platform like co-creation, pro-code support and the dynamics in fusion teams

05-28
31:16

Ralf Richter - Event Driven Architecture

Send us a textRalf Richter, Distinguished Cloud Consultant at shiftavenue and Community hero, comes on the show to discuss everything around Event Driven Architecture. We start with an overview and typical scenarios, look into differentiation from other architectural approaches, discuss drawbacks and adoption best practices and close it off with real life examples and some misconceptions. Ralf also shares the idea of his latest podcast Decode AI.

05-02
50:32

Josh Anglesea - Integrating Canvas Apps into Business Central and the broader Power Platform integration picture for BC

Send us a textJosh Anglesea, Systems Architect at Xpedition and Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, joins this episode to talk about the integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft Power Platform. We take a look at the overall picture and then dive into the details of the possibilities to integrate Canvas Apps into Business Central (see https://joshanglesea.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/business-central-embedded-canvas-app/ for Josh's original blog post on th...

03-21
35:46

Jacob Winther and Mike Borg Cardona - Artifical Intelligence in Business Central

Send us a textArtificial Intelligence is by far the most dominant topic in IT currently. In this episode, Jacob Winther, Design Lead for Business Central, and Mike Borg Cardona, Product Manager for everything productivity in Business Central, join the show to discuss AI in Business Central. We start by talking AI in general and how it will impact all of us, then we look deeper into the recently introduced AI functionality in Business Central, including the new prompt dialog and the Business C...

11-27
40:25

Christian Heide Damm and Esteban Ardaya Heckl - Business Central Online scalability and reliability

Send us a textA lot of customers and partners are working on and with Business Central Online every day, but why and how can it handle that load and get amazingly close to 100 % availability? In this episode, Christian Heide Damm, Cloud Architect and Esteban Ardaya Heckl, Principal Software Engineer, both working on the Business Central team, join the show to give us a look under the hood. We talk scalability and how the service reacts to increasing load, and also what happens if an issue app...

11-17
31:30

Shannon Mullins, Dmitry Katson and Steve Chinksy - Day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023

Send us a textShannon Mullins, Dmitry Katson and Steve Chinksy talk about their highlights of day 1 at Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon: Of course, a lot of AI and Copilots, but also the scale of Business Central Online, the new partner programs announced by Microsoft and a lot more.

11-01
30:30

Carme Cortada, Leen Everaerts and Patrícia Maia - Women in Dynamics on Day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023

Send us a textCarme Cortada, Leen Everaerts and Patricia Maia join this episode recorded on day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon. We talk about Women in Dynamics, how and why it was started, what the goals are and how it is progressing. We also talk about their T.H.I.S framework (check out https://www.womenindynamics.org/ to find out more) and what Dynamics partners should do to become a more diverse and inclusive environment.

11-01
14:59

Nigel Poulton and Timo Stark - DockerCon 2023

Send us a textRecorded on the afternoon of day two of DockerCon 2023 in Los Angeles, Docker Captains Nigel Poulton, best-selling author and trainer, and Timo Stark, Software Engineer at Nginx, join this episode. We talk about the highlights and announcements of DockerCon, discuss Wasm and it's impact, sprinkle in some Kubernetes and end with why we loved the event.

10-05
34:30

Urs Enzler - The problem with software development effort estimation

Send us a textUrs Enzler, software architect, shares his insights about the challenges with software development effort estimation. We talk about general aspects, we dive a bit into diseconomy of scale and complexity, we detour into monoliths vs. microservices and what the differences between estimation of projects and products are. In the end, Urs shares his idea for how we can at least try to approach the problem.

07-20
43:08

Bert Verbeek and Luc van Vugt - 2023 BC TechDays

Send us a textBert Verbeek and Luc van Vugt, both Dynamics 365 Business Central MVPs working for 4PS, join another "live" episode from the BC TechDays. We talked about the highlights of the day, the news of the keynote, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on development and developers and what else was interesting.

06-22
19:39

Jens Møller-Pedersen and Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan - How the BC backlog is managed

Send us a textJens Møller-Pedersen, Engineering Manager, and Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager, join the podcast in this episode to talk about how they shape the future of the parts of Business Central they are responsible for. We talk about how they decide what to do (and what not to do) and when to do it, how to figure out how much effort something takes and why that isn't as important as you might think and how the organization and work approach is set up.

03-17
51:39

AJ Ansari and Waldo - VS Code in the browser (for BC)

Send us a textSparked by a Twitter discussion, AJ Ansari, COO at DSWi and Eric "waldo" Wauters, Partner at iFacto, join this episode to discuss the opportunities, but also challenges if we had a way to use VS Code in the browser for BC. We discuss the scenarios that would be unlocked, but also how it might cause problems. In the end, we briefly dive into how it might help to attract more people to a development career with Business Central. We also somewhat diverge into topics like citi...

12-20
37:11

Luise Freese and Ralf Richter - Azure Developer Community Day 2022

Send us a textOn this episode recorded in the Microsoft Germany headquarter in Munich, I am joined by M365 princess Luise Freese and Ralf Richter, one of the founders of the Azure Developer Community Day. We talk about the highlights of this first in-person iteration of the event and learn a bit about the background and the amount of work that Ralf puts into organizing it. We also discuss why and how putting a bit of code into low-code/no-code makes sense, what the actual story for the Power ...

12-13
20:57

Michael Irwin - All things Docker, Wasm and Windows Constainers

Send us a textMichael Irwin, Sr. Manager DevRel at Docker and former Docker Captain, joins in this episode to talk about where Docker as a company and as an Open Source contributor is right now and shares his thoughts on Kubernetes and container orchestration. Then we go into WebAssembly, one of the most interesting tech topics at the moment and how it relates Docker and also discuss Windows containers. In the end, he shares how he made the whole Docker company sing "Happy Birthday" for his k...

12-03
28:02

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