Ivan Towlson (@ppog_penguin) is a programmer, software architect and speaker. He works for Microsoft on the team responsible for Cloud-native developer tools including Helm, Draft, Brigade, Duffel, CNAB and VSCode extensions for Kubernetes. In this interview, recorded in a noisy Hotel lobby during Codemania 2019, we cover a wide range of topics from distributed data structures to functional languages to the history of .NET and why Microsoft is investing so heavily in opensource.

Ivan and I are employees of Microsoft and our opinions are our own.

Show links:

• Microsoft Fast Track for Azure
• Codemania. A conference for developers.
• Heather Miller. What happened to distributed programming languages?
• Visual Studio Code Kubernetes Tools
• F# for C# Programmers by @ScottWlaschin
• dotnet/coreclr issue #23466: Nullable: System.Object
• What's new in TypeScript? by Anders Hejlsberg in 2016
• Microsoft Terminal - GitHub
• Azure Kubernetes Service
• Microsoft Fast Track for Azure

From Microsoft New Zealand, this is Azure Lunch. A podcast about Microsoft Azure in short digestible chunks, where we discuss cloud computing from a Kiwi perspective with Architects, Engineers and Technical specialists from around the world.

Azure Lunch is sponsored by Microsoft Fast Track for Azure - a team of Engineers and Program Managers dedicated to helping you to be successful in Azure. Learn more at Azure.com/FastTrack.

Thanks to SilverWHK for the use of his music in our podcast: https://silverwhk.bandcamp.com

Daniel Larsen and his guests are employees of Microsoft. The opinions expressed in this podcast are their own and not an official company statement.