In this episode Matt Simpson talks to Daniel Larsen, Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, about his recent Operating Azure at Scale talk at the Auckland Azure Lunchtime meetup. How did a software developer become so passionate about governance? What has been the evolution of Azure Governance from a field engineer's perspective? And how do the new Azure Blueprints and Policy features apply to PaaS workloads?

Show links:

• Microsoft NZ Partner Hub
• Cloud practice playbooks
• Operating Azure at Scale (meetup page)
• Operating Azure at Scale - video
• Operating Azure at Scale - slides and notes
• Deep dive into Implementing governance at scale through Azure Policy (Ignite 2018)

Azure Lunch is a regular podcast of news and views from Microsoft Azure with a Kiwi slant. Today's episode is sponsored by the Microsoft NZ Partner Hub. If you're building software or providing services related to Microsoft products then you should check out the Partner hub for training, advice and a heap of resources including the Partner Practice Playbooks - https://aka.ms/nzpartnerhub

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

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