I had a great time tonight presenting about scalability, distributed systems, messaging, and eventing in Azure at the Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup. I also really enjoyed the collaboration and the Q&A at the end. Now, I'm on the train headed home.

Curious how to build distributed systems at scale with messaging and eventing patterns using #Azure services?. Meet, mingle, and connect with other cloud computing practitioners and enthusiasts tomorrow evening at the Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup.

Eric Siegel (@predictanalytic) kicking off #SummerfestTech 2025 with his keynote "The AI Playbook: How to Capitalize on Machine Learning".

What are you doing this Thursday evening?. Eating pizza with me and David Giard while learning about and discussing #Azure AI Search?. If you are, since I'm ordering the pizza, what do you want? Domino's, Chicago Deep Dish, or Chicago Tavern Style?.

And that's a wrap on the #MSBuild 2025 Seattle experience. I'll recap the conference, announcements, and provide recommendations for sessions to watch and things to learn in an article on in the coming days.

Tune into Microsoft Build in 15 minutes at 8:47 PT to see the 2025 Imagine Cup World Championship with @donasarkar and Annie Pearl. The keynote will immediately follow at 9:00 PT with @satyanadella and Kevin Scott.

I love hearing Ray Charles' America the Beautiful every time I am at the MDW parking garage elevators.

Heading to #MSBuild but not sure where to start?. Join me + fellow MVPs for "New to Microsoft Build? Get Help Planning Your Agenda" 🎯. We’ll share our picks, answer your Qs, and help you build your schedule with confidence!. ➡️ #Azure #AI #MVPBuzz

Chicago #GlobalAzure on May 9 at @McDonalds HQ. Join me and members of the Chicago #Azure community to explore insights on patterns, practices, and innovations in Microsoft Azure. Event details and registration:

Jaxon and I at #BSidesMKE today.

Doing some fun recordings in the Microsoft studios this afternoon. #mvpbuzz

It's Fat Tuesday and I'm enjoying Cafe Du Monde chicory coffee this morning.

The practical demo of Azure AI Foundry at the #AiTour was great. Thank you @sethjuarez for the great demo.

I almost didn't recognize @scottgu with his new white button down. #AiTour

Hanging out with some of my favorite people at the Microsoft #AITour in NYC. @magrom @maryjofoley @andrewbrust

I have been a @FlameBossSmokes user for years. I have a 300 and they are ending cloud services that support these older models. They are offering a $100 discount to existing users for a new model, but in return they brick your old controller, even for local use. That's terrible.

I've used @ClearDB for MySQL in Azure from the beginning of App Service. Sadly, we've reached the end of the road.

It smells like Christmas in my office.

I had a great time presenting on topics like #python, #ai, #azure, monitoring, and API gateways at @Live360events with others from @responsiveX. We mixed in a bit of fun too, including the Universal parks. But it's great to be home with lots of monitors and IDEs out of demo mode.

I was interviewed by #VisualStudio Magazine about gaining insights into app and infra health in Azure. You can find some of my thoughts on this topic in their article. They also mention my session on #Azure Monitor that's happening in a couple of weeks at Live 360 in Orlando.