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Eldert Grootenboer
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Senior Product Manager @Microsoft | #Azure Service Bus | Former #Azure MVP | Community Enthusiast | Public Speaker
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How resilient are your Azure deployments?

@Chris-Ayers.com talks on RunAs Radio at runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1... about his work making Azure reliable - for Azure itself! Lots of conversation about the trade-offs in reliability and complexity.
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Want to understand what “asynchronous” really means in distributed systems? Watch Sam Newman’s MQ Summit 2025 keynote “You Keep Using That Word” - the video is live now! youtu.be/8ybqsEg2HYs
November 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Join us LIVE at #dotNetConf as we launch .NET 10 and VS2026! We are live with demos and details for the next three days! www.dotnetconf.net
.NET Conf 2025
Join the .NET Conf 2025 free virtual event November 11-13 2025 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!
www.dotnetconf.net
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Even if you are not into event driven systems, you should watch this talk by @noctovis.bsky.social

Thank you, @oskardudycz.bsky.social for making me aware of this.

#EventDriven #EventVersioning

youtu.be/6TCbJtPnits
Change Is Inevitable: Versioning Event-Driven Systems — Laila Bougria
YouTube video by JetBrains
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Microsoft recently announced a preview feature for its API Management (APIM) service that allows developers to send messages directly to Azure Service Bus …. #apimanagement #apibroker #azure #infoq #servicebus
www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Azure APIM Simplifies Event-Driven Architecture with Native Service Bus Policy
Microsoft's new feature in API Management (APIM) enables seamless messaging to Azure Service Bus, simplifying API connections in event-driven architectures. By using the send-service-bus-message polic...
www.infoq.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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At the #mqsummit, @clemens.vasters.com did a great job today, spreading the word about #xRegistry and its value proposition.
xregistry.io
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I am very excited about this conference and I'll have a bunch of things to show.

xRegistry.io
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Got any questions about all the latest GitHub, VS Code and Copilot news? Jared Palmer, Pierce Boggan and I will be hosting an AMA tomorrow. Looking forward to chatting with you www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopi...
From the GithubCopilot community on Reddit: AMA on GitHub Universe releases tomorrow (November 5)
Explore this post and more from the GithubCopilot community
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November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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What’s your favorite cocktail bar in the Chicago area? Tell us where and why.

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November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Cool blog post showing the power of the new #Azure APIM policy for Service Bus seanfeldman.com/posts/handli...
Handling API Calls like a King 👑
Turn sync HTTP calls into resilient async flows with Azure API Management and queues—embracing backpressure, retries, and idempotency to keep APIs fast and reliable.
seanfeldman.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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My brand new book Microsoft Azure in Action is HALF PRICE! Yes, you can learn about alpacas, illegal books, and of course Microsoft Azure, for 50% off right now. It's the Happy Halloween sales at @manning.com!
Trick or treat your way to here: www.manning.com/books/micros...
October 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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New conversation w/ @markrussinovich.bsky.social about the "AI Boost" that senior engineers are seeing, and the "AI Drag" that early in career engineers hit...it's all our responsibility to lift up the next generation with mentorship, curiosity, and systems thinking! www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6l2...
EPISODE 27 - Scott and Mark Learn To… The AI Productivity Trap: Senior Boost, Junior Drag
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Introducing native Service Bus message publishing from #Azure API Management!

APIM now supports sending messages directly to Azure Service Bus using a built-in policy, allowing to use managed identities, secure policies, and zero code changes.

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integra...
Introducing native Service Bus message publishing from Azure API Management | Microsoft Community Hub
We’re excited to announce a new capability in Azure API Management (APIM) — you can now send messages directly to Azure Service...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Since I'm flying long haul today, repost of my "the Mercator projection is distorting the size of places" tool clemensv.github.io/mercator/
Mercator Map — Rotate Under Center
clemensv.github.io
October 4, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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32 Chunk winning Fat Bear Week causes debate between me and @dylanbeatt.ie #856wasrobbed
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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I will be giving my messaging workshop at KanDDDinsky on October 21-22. On the first day, we explore the core concept of how we communicate using messaging from message pumps to brokers, with coding exercises. On the second day, we explore reactive architectures.
September 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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I demoed this at Ignite last year—now it's real. Every server gets a dedicated Hardware Security Module. This fundamentally changes how we secure connected systems. End-to-end hardware-protected keys is now the baseline, not the exception: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureCo...
Microsoft Azure Introduces Azure Integrated HSM: A Key Cache for Virtual Machines | Microsoft Community Hub
Today we are excited to release the public preview support for Azure Integrated HSM for AMD v7 Virtual Machines. As announced last year at Ignite, Azure...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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#Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new capability that enables #Azure #LogicApps (Standard) to function as MCP servers, providing developers with a flexible way to build and manage agents.

My #InfoQ News Item: www.infoq.com/news/2025/09...
Microsoft Introduces Logic Apps as MCP Servers in Public Preview
Microsoft has unveiled a public preview of Azure Logic Apps (Standard) as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling developers to build and manage AI agents easily. This new capability promotes s...
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September 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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So I'm gonna be doing a new and ultra weird talk next year - and I'm doing a bit of a test run at DotNetNorth next month.

www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

It's gonna be weird, come out.
Meditations on Code As Art, Tue, Oct 14, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Code can be beautiful, elegant and performant, but can it deliberately be artistic? Despite how important and prolific software and programming have become over the last 5
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September 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Come join @scott.hanselman.com and I talk about the Future of Development and #dotnet at DEVintersection and bring someone else for FREE. devintersection.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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See you in Denver! I was lucky enough to deliver the keynote for the inaugural event and I can’t wait to return again this year! #VenkatCon
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September 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Took everyone a while to come to terms with the idea that if (1) space is infinite, (2) local conditions are random, and (3) randomness is described by a fixed bounded distribution, then there will be copies of us very far away! Infinitely many of them.

arxiv.org/abs/0905.128...
The Multiverse Hierarchy
I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, arguing that they form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of ...
arxiv.org
September 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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After a thousand epsiodes, time for a super-sized Ask Me Anything!

@thurrott.bsky.social joins Richard on RunAs Radio at runasradio.com/Shows/Show/1... to answer questions from listeners!
September 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496
Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy
Job #AJO30496, Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US
academicjobsonline.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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And now you can develop NES/Famicom games using exclusively your web browser, and online CVBasic 0.9.0. Thanks to Haroldoop #retro #retrogaming #colecovision #msx #famicom #nes haroldo-ok.itch.io/cvbasic-onli...
CVBasic online compiler by haroldo-ok
Compile CVBasic source code directly from your browser
haroldo-ok.itch.io
September 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM