AI DevOps Podcast

This week, Jeffrey is joined by Buck Woody, Applied Data Scientist working on the Azure Data Services team at Microsoft. Buck has over 39 years of professional and practical experience in computer technology and is also a globally sought-after speaker and author.

In this jam-packed episode, Buck talks about his passion for data and why it's important to recognize that data is the central part of anything, which means keeping people employed. He talks about his role in machine learning and AI in Microsoft, and why we have to be extra careful when letting machines make the final call, why data science is useful, and the difference between business intelligence and data science. Buck shares the number one thing he feels developers need to know, and a few free resources that you can use to expand your knowledge and skills.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:00] Jeffrey welcomes Buck and gives a quick overview of his background and how he got into data and security. Buck has worked with many top companies including IBM, NASA, and started at Microsoft about 16 years ago.

[5:00] Jeffrey joined the Red Dog team, which was the early part of Azure.

[6:12] What was working in tech and AI back in the 1970s, compared to today?

[9:48] How do we take some of the AI technology for granted?

[10:04] What is data mining?

[15:00] What does Buck feel is the number one thing a developer needs to understand about data and effective queries?

[20:44] What is Buck's definition of Big Data?

[22:46] What is the difference between business intelligence and the idea around data science?

[24:25] What is the number one question Buck asks when someone tells him they want artificial intelligence?

[25:47] Why don't you need business intelligence to do data science?

[26:03] What is the age-old practice of ETL?

[27:12] What is source data poisoning, and how does it affect our algorithms?

[30:31] It is important for AI to augment human reasoning. Buck and Jeffrey talk about the example of recognizing red vs. green lights.

[34:20] Jeffrey and Buck explore the construct of Excel Flash Fill.

[37:02] What are the go-to tools that developers should be installing? What are some free Microsoft resources, and what are Cognitive Services?

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Buck Woody: Twitter | LinkedIn

Using Excel Flash Fill

Microsoft AI School

Azure Cognitive Services

Microsoft Tech Community

Data Architecture

Star Trek

Anna Hoffman

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

This week, Jeffrey is joined by Buck Woody, Applied Data Scientist working on the Azure Data Services team at Microsoft. Buck has over 39 years of professional and practical experience in computer technology and is also a globally sought-after speaker and author.

 

In this jam-packed episode, Buck talks about his passion for data and why it's important to recognize that data is the central part of anything, which means keeping people employed. He talks about his role in machine learning and AI in Microsoft, and why we have to be extra careful when letting machines make the final call, why data science is useful, and the difference between business intelligence and data science. Buck shares the number one thing he feels developers need to know, and a few free resources that you can use to expand your knowledge and skills.

 

Topics of Discussion:

[2:00] Jeffrey welcomes Buck and gives a quick overview of his background and how he got into data and security. Buck has worked with many top companies including IBM, NASA, and started at Microsoft about 16 years ago. 

[5:00] Jeffrey joined the Red Dog team, which was the early part of Azure.

[6:12] What was working in tech and AI back in the 1970s, compared to today?

[9:48] How do we take some of the AI technology for granted?

[10:04] What is data mining?

[15:00] What does Buck feel is the number one thing a developer needs to understand about data and effective queries?

[20:44] What is Buck's definition of Big Data?

[22:46] What is the difference between business intelligence and the idea around data science?

[24:25] What is the number one question Buck asks when someone tells him they want artificial intelligence?

[25:47] Why don't you need business intelligence to do data science?

[26:03] What is the age-old practice of ETL?

[27:12] What is source data poisoning, and how does it affect our algorithms?

[30:31] It is important for AI to augment human reasoning. Buck and Jeffrey talk about the example of recognizing red vs. green lights.

[34:20] Jeffrey and Buck explore the construct of Excel Flash Fill.

[37:02] What are the go-to tools that developers should be installing? What are some free Microsoft resources, and what are Cognitive Services?

 

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Buck Woody: Twitter | LinkedIn

Using Excel Flash Fill

Microsoft AI School

Azure Cognitive Services

Microsoft Tech Community

Data Architecture

Star Trek

Anna Hoffman

 

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

This week, Jeffrey is joined by Jimmy Engström, a Senior Developer, author, and speaker.

Since he was 7 years old and got his first computer, Jimmy has been on the cutting edge of technology, always developing, and trying new things. When he got wind of Blazor, he immediately realized the potential and adopted it when it was only in beta. Since then, he has been running Blazor in production since it was launched by Microsoft.

Jimmy's passion for the .NET industry and community has taken him all around the world and has even earned him the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the last 8 years in a row. Additionally, Jimmy is the author of Web Development with Blazor and the co-host of Coding After Work; a podcast and stream.

In this episode, Jimmy shares what he thinks every developer should know when it comes to Blazor, his favorite Blazor components, insights regarding integrating Blazor into a DevOps environment, his career journey in Blazor, and about his book, Web Development with Blazor, A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#.

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:15] About today's episode with Jimmy Engström.

[2:20] Jeffrey welcomes Jimmy to the show and congratulates him on his book on Blazor.

[2:50] Jimmy shares his career background and his professional body of work.

[6:55] When did Jimmy become interested and invested in Blazor? What led him to writing a book about it?

[11:29] What should every developer know about Blazor?

[18:44] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[19:16] Jimmy talks Blazor architecture and APIs.

[21:59] Blazor components that Jimmy and his team especially love using.

[25:15] Jimmy's opinions on Radzen and Telerik.

[26:25] Jimmy shares when he first adopted Blazor and the big changes he has noticed as he's moved from .NET 5 to .NET 6.

[29:36] Jimmy's insights regarding integrating Blazor into a DevOps environment.

[32:50] Where to find Jimmy online.

[35:09] Jeffrey thanks Aaron Stannard for joining the podcast.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Jimmy Engström's Microsoft Profile

Jimmy Engström's Twitter @EngstromJimmy

EngstromJimmy.com

Jimmy Engström's LinkedIn

Web Development with Blazor, A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#, by Jimmy Engström (on PacktHub)

Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#, by Jimmy Engström (on Amazon)

Jimmy Engström on Sessionize

CodingAfterWork.com

Blazor

SignalR

Blazm.net

Infragistics

Telerik

Radzen

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

This week, Jeffrey is joined by Jimmy Engström, a Senior Developer, author, and speaker.

 

Since he was 7 years old and got his first computer, Jimmy has been on the cutting edge of technology, always developing, and trying new things. When he got wind of Blazor, he immediately realized the potential and adopted it when it was only in beta. Since then, he has been running Blazor in production since it was launched by Microsoft.

 

Jimmy's passion for the .NET industry and community has taken him all around the world and has even earned him the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the last 8 years in a row. Additionally, Jimmy is the author of Web Development with Blazor and the co-host of Coding After Work; a podcast and stream.

 

In this episode, Jimmy shares what he thinks every developer should know when it comes to Blazor, his favorite Blazor components, insights regarding integrating Blazor into a DevOps environment, his career journey in Blazor, and about his book, Web Development with Blazor, A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#.

 

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:15] About today's episode with Jimmy Engström.

[2:20] Jeffrey welcomes Jimmy to the show and congratulates him on his book on Blazor.

[2:50] Jimmy shares his career background and his professional body of work.

[6:55] When did Jimmy become interested and invested in Blazor? What led him to writing a book about it?

[11:29] What should every developer know about Blazor?

[18:44] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[19:16] Jimmy talks Blazor architecture and APIs.

[21:59] Blazor components that Jimmy and his team especially love using.

[25:15] Jimmy's opinions on Radzen and Telerik.

[26:25] Jimmy shares when he first adopted Blazor and the big changes he has noticed as he's moved from .NET 5 to .NET 6.

[29:36] Jimmy's insights regarding integrating Blazor into a DevOps environment.

[32:50] Where to find Jimmy online.

[35:09] Jeffrey thanks Aaron Stannard for joining the podcast.

 

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Jimmy Engström's Microsoft Profile

Jimmy Engström's Twitter @EngstromJimmy

EngstromJimmy.com

Jimmy Engström's LinkedIn

Web Development with Blazor, A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#, by Jimmy Engström (on PacktHub)

Web Development with Blazor: A hands-on guide for .NET developers to build interactive UIs with C#, by Jimmy Engström (on Amazon)

Jimmy Engström on Sessionize

CodingAfterWork.com

Blazor

SignalR

Blazm.net

Infragistics

Telerik

Radzen

 

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

In this episode, Jeffrey is rejoined by Aaron Stannard for the second half of their two part interview! Be sure to turn into last week's episode, "Aaron Stannard on the Actor Model with Akka.NET | Part 1" to learn all about Aaron's career history and the creation of Akka.NET.

Aaron is the founder and CEO of Petabridge and Sdkbin, building open source tools for .NET developers to build concurrent and distributed applications. He's also the founder of MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers, and has spent some time inside Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

In this episode, Aaron discusses the general use cases of Akka.NET, the problem it addresses, where and how to use the actor model, and more. Don't miss out on this deeply fascinating two-part series with Aaron Stannard!

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:13] About today's episode with Aaron Stannard.

[1:53] For application types, if someone is building a web application, a native application, or a mobile app, would they put Akka.NET in a backend process that consumes messages being received from somewhere?

[3:53] Is high-scale more so Akka.NET's bread-and-butter as opposed to low-scale, but constantly running?

[10:10] Is the transport always a queue like Azure Service Bus or is it ever a web service call?

[13:32] Is Akka.NET used instead of or with other frameworks?

[15:32] Aaron shares several use cases of Akka.NET and explains the problems that it can address.

[22:02] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[22:37] Why a developer might look at/use Akka.NET. Aaron also explains another area where actors are used.

[26:56] The nuanced things you can do with Akka.NET that you can't do with other built-in tools in platforms like Azure.

[27:28] How close on the network do the servers need to be to participate?

[27:53] Aaron explains how Akka.Cluster would work for a specific use case problem.

[29:43] Where the actor model can help developers.

[33:17] The overhead requirements for Akka.NET.

[35:04] Where to learn more about Akka.NET and find Aaron Stannard online.

[37:19] Jeffrey thanks Aaron Stannard for joining the podcast.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

.NET Conf

Akka.NET

Akka.NET Bootcamp | Petabridge

Petabridge Blog

Aaron Stannard's Website

Aaron Stannard's Twitter @Aaronontheweb

RabbitMQ

Azure Service Bus

Akka.Cluster

MAUI.NET

"When and How to Use the Actor Model An Introduction to Akka NET Actors" (Microsoft Visual Studio Youtube Channel)

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

In this episode, Jeffrey is rejoined by Aaron Stannard for the second half of their two part interview! Be sure to turn into last week's episode, "Aaron Stannard on the Actor Model with Akka.NET | Part 1" to learn all about Aaron's career history and the creation of Akka.NET.

 

Aaron is the founder and CEO of Petabridge and Sdkbin, building open source tools for .NET developers to build concurrent and distributed applications. He's also the founder of MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers, and has spent some time inside Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

 

In this episode, Aaron discusses the general use cases of Akka.NET, the problem it addresses, where and how to use the actor model, and more. Don't miss out on this deeply fascinating two-part series with Aaron Stannard!

 

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:13] About today's episode with Aaron Stannard.

[1:53] For application types, if someone is building a web application, a native application, or a mobile app, would they put Akka.NET in a backend process that consumes messages being received from somewhere?

[3:53] Is high-scale more so Akka.NET's bread-and-butter as opposed to low-scale, but constantly running?

[10:10] Is the transport always a queue like Azure Service Bus or is it ever a web service call?

[13:32] Is Akka.NET used instead of or with other frameworks?

[15:32] Aaron shares several use cases of Akka.NET and explains the problems that it can address.

[22:02] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[22:37] Why a developer might look at/use Akka.NET. Aaron also explains another area where actors are used.

[26:56] The nuanced things you can do with Akka.NET that you can't do with other built-in tools in platforms like Azure.

[27:28] How close on the network do the servers need to be to participate?

[27:53] Aaron explains how Akka.Cluster would work for a specific use case problem.

[29:43] Where the actor model can help developers.

[33:17] The overhead requirements for Akka.NET.

[35:04] Where to learn more about Akka.NET and find Aaron Stannard online.

[37:19] Jeffrey thanks Aaron Stannard for joining the podcast.

 

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

.NET Conf

Akka.NET

Akka.NET Bootcamp | Petabridge

Petabridge Blog

Aaron Stannard's Website

Aaron Stannard's Twitter @Aaronontheweb

RabbitMQ

Azure Service Bus

Akka.Cluster

MAUI.NET

"When and How to Use the Actor Model An Introduction to Akka NET Actors" (Microsoft Visual Studio Youtube Channel)

 

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

In this episode, Jeffrey is joined by a deeply fascinating guest, Aaron Stannard! Aaron is the founder and CEO of Petabridge and Sdkbin, building open source tools for .NET developers to build concurrent and distributed applications. He's also the founder of MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers, and has spent some time inside Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

In this conversation, Aaron shares the story of his career history up to this point in time, the creation of Akka.NET and Petabridge, and the problems that these projects aim to address.

Be sure to tune in next week for the second part of this interview with Aaron Stannard!

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:15] About today's episode with Aaron Stannard.

[1:54] Jeffrey welcomes Aaron to the podcast!

[3:42] Aaron shares his career history and journey.

[8:38] Aaron shares the story of Akka.NET.

[13:38] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[14:11] Aaron continues the story of Akka.NET and explains what problems it addresses.

[19:19] Aaron shares how many lines of code was the first rev of Akka just to get the basics working.

[23:30] Be sure to tune in next week for the second and final part of the interview with Aaron Stannard!

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

.NET Conf

Akka.NET

Akka.NET Bootcamp | Petabridge

Petabridge Blog

Aaron Stannard's Website

Aaron Stannard's Twitter @Aaronontheweb

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

In this episode, Jeffrey is joined by a deeply fascinating guest, Aaron Stannard! Aaron is the founder and CEO of Petabridge and Sdkbin, building open source tools for .NET developers to build concurrent and distributed applications. He's also the founder of MarkedUp Analytics, a real-time in-app marketing and analytics service used by 1000+ developers, and has spent some time inside Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist.

 

In this conversation, Aaron shares the story of his career history up to this point in time, the creation of Akka.NET and Petabridge, and the problems that these projects aim to address.

 

Be sure to tune in next week for the second part of this interview with Aaron Stannard!

 

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:15] About today's episode with Aaron Stannard.

[1:54] Jeffrey welcomes Aaron to the podcast!

[3:42] Aaron shares his career history and journey.

[8:38] Aaron shares the story of Akka.NET.

[13:38] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[14:11] Aaron continues the story of Akka.NET and explains what problems it addresses.

[19:19] Aaron shares how many lines of code was the first rev of Akka just to get the basics working.

[23:30] Be sure to tune in next week for the second and final part of the interview with Aaron Stannard!

 

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

.NET Conf

Akka.NET

Akka.NET Bootcamp | Petabridge

Petabridge Blog

Aaron Stannard's Website

Aaron Stannard's Twitter @Aaronontheweb

 

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

This week, Jessica Engström joins the podcast to speak about user experience.

Jessica is an international speaker, teacher, podcaster, mentor, geek, and the CEO of her own company. One of her passions is the developer community where she organizes conferences, events, streams, and runs multiple user groups. She's also the co-host of the Coding After Work Podcast and Twitch channel! One thing that Jessica is absolutely sure of is that you can never learn enough! And this is why she is continuously learning new things, researching, and trains with some of the best people in the world.

In this episode, Jessica shares her insights on UX, her advice to developers looking to get into it, tips for making your UX more accessible, the greater problems she would like to see solved with better UX, and other key pieces of advice around UX standards and development.

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:13] About today's episode with Jessica Engström.

[2:01] Jeffrey welcomes Jessica Engström to the podcast!

[2:18] Jessica shares her background and what led her to doing what she does today.

[5:27] Jessica describes the multiple projects and roles she holds from hosting a podcast to being a mentor to being the CEO of her own company, and more.

[8:05] Jessica describes what user experience is to her, some of the current missing pieces, and what areas of it need to be more broadly educated about.

[11:51] Jessica's UX methodology and her recommendations on how to get started with it.

[15:22] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[15:55] Jessica shares an important UX design tip.

[17:05] How Jessica recommends teaching new developers the UX rules of thumb.

[18:34] Jessica defines accessibility when it comes to UX.

[21:36] How to make UX more accessible and other options that Jessica thinks should be available on all websites/platforms.

[27:30] Jessica recommends resources to check out if you're interested in learning more about UX.

[28:43] Are there embedded UX standards when you choose a CSS framework (such as Material UI or Bootstrap)? Would Jessica recommend them?

[30:00] The similarities and differences between HTML UIs and Windows Native or mobile.

[31:33] Jessica shares her thoughts on when to use vs. when not to use H1 on a web page.

[33:14] Where to find Jessica online.

[33:27] Jeffrey thanks Jessica Engström for joining the podcast.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Jessica Engström's Microsoft MVP Profile

Jessica Engström's Twitter @EngstromJess

CodingAfterWork.se

UITraps.com

WebAIM.org

WebAIM.org/resources

w3.org/WAI/roles/developers

AZM.se/traps

Medium | UX Collective

Instagram #UX

Material UI

Bootstrap

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

This week, Jessica Engström joins the podcast to speak about user experience.

 

Jessica is an international speaker, teacher, podcaster, mentor, geek, and the CEO of her own company. One of her passions is the developer community where she organizes conferences, events, streams, and runs multiple user groups. She's also the co-host of the Coding After Work Podcast and Twitch channel! One thing that Jessica is absolutely sure of is that you can never learn enough! And this is why she is continuously learning new things, researching, and trains with some of the best people in the world.

 

In this episode, Jessica shares her insights on UX, her advice to developers looking to get into it, tips for making your UX more accessible, the greater problems she would like to see solved with better UX, and other key pieces of advice around UX standards and development.

 

Topics of Discussion:

[:36] About The Azure DevOps Podcast, Clear Measure; the new video podcast Architect Tips; and Jeffrey's offer to speak at virtual user groups.

[1:13] About today's episode with Jessica Engström.

[2:01] Jeffrey welcomes Jessica Engström to the podcast!

[2:18] Jessica shares her background and what led her to doing what she does today.

[5:27] Jessica describes the multiple projects and roles she holds from hosting a podcast to being a mentor to being the CEO of her own company, and more.

[8:05] Jessica describes what user experience is to her, some of the current missing pieces, and what areas of it need to be more broadly educated about.

[11:51] Jessica's UX methodology and her recommendations on how to get started with it.

[15:22] A word from Azure DevOps Podcast's sponsor: Clear Measure.

[15:55] Jessica shares an important UX design tip.

[17:05] How Jessica recommends teaching new developers the UX rules of thumb.

[18:34] Jessica defines accessibility when it comes to UX.

[21:36] How to make UX more accessible and other options that Jessica thinks should be available on all websites/platforms.

[27:30] Jessica recommends resources to check out if you're interested in learning more about UX.

[28:43] Are there embedded UX standards when you choose a CSS framework (such as Material UI or Bootstrap)? Would Jessica recommend them?

[30:00] The similarities and differences between HTML UIs and Windows Native or mobile.

[31:33] Jessica shares her thoughts on when to use vs. when not to use H1 on a web page.

[33:14] Where to find Jessica online.

[33:27] Jeffrey thanks Jessica Engström for joining the podcast.

 

Mentioned in this Episode:

Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Azure DevOps

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

bit.ly/dotnetdevopsebook — Click here to download the .NET DevOps for Azure ebook!

Jeffrey Palermo's YouTube

Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!

Jessica Engström's Microsoft MVP Profile

Jessica Engström's Twitter @EngstromJess

CodingAfterWork.se

UITraps.com

WebAIM.org

WebAIM.org/resources

w3.org/WAI/roles/developers

AZM.se/traps

Medium | UX Collective

Instagram #UX

Material UI

Bootstrap

 

Want to Learn More?

Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.