Huge thanks to this dream team:

Marcelo Zambrana – fellow HashiCorp Ambassador 🌍
Dariusz Porowski – author of the Terraform Provider for Microsoft Fabric ⚡
Aaron Hogue – Microsoft veteran 💪

No shortcuts. No gimmicks. Just code + creativity. And now… 3rd place. LFG! 🚀

From terraforming castles 🏰 to orchestrating flocks of pink sheep 🩷🐑, we showed that code and imagination are still more than enough to inspire.

The category was sponsored by none other than @philspencer.bsky.social, CEO of Microsoft Gaming — which makes this recognition even more surreal. 💥

We were the long shot with the crazy idea:

➡️ No AI buzzwords
➡️ No hype machines
➡️ Just good old-fashioned open source software development — cloud & DevOps principles applied to community outreach through the world's most popular video game: Minecraft.

lol. Yeah “that guy that built a Minecraft provider for terraform” 😅🤣

Enterprise grade flock of pink sheep… lemme tell you!!! 🤪😅🤣

Ikr?!?! Wild!!! 🤩