Window on Technology
Window on Technology is a podcast hosted by Tobias Fenster (tobiasfenster.io) on which typically one expert takes about a specific technology area, either as an introduction or to share the latest news or big changes coming up.
Episodes
30 episodes
Carme Cortada and Søren Friis Alexandersen - Diversity in Dynamics
Carme Cortada and Søren Friis Alexandersen join in another episode recorded directly at Directions EMEA to discuss Diversity in Dynamics, formerly known as Women in Dynamics. We discuss the recent change towards a broader focus on Diversity in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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17:27
Shannon Mullins, Björn Zahnow and Mats Necker - Organizing Community events
Shannon Mullins, Björn Zahnow and Mats Necker join this episode directly at Directions EMEA in Vienna to discuss community events. They discuss the challenges this brings, the dos and don'ts for speakers, how Microsoft influences things in our ...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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25:27
Marco Heimeshoff - Domain-Driven Design
Marco Heimeshoff, trainer, speaker and software developer, joins the show to discuss Domain-Driven Design. Where does it come from, why does it matter, how can you implement it and how can you get started with it. He also shares his community a...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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48:33
Thorsten Hans - WebAssembly, Spin and Fermyon
Thorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, joins the show to discuss WebAssembly in general and specifically the news around Spin and SpinKube. We discuss when to use Spin, what the CNCF contribution of S...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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44:21
Natalie Karolak and Krzysztof Bialowas - BC TechDays 2024
Natalie Karolak, Product Architect at COSMO CONSULT and MVP Alumni, and Krzysztof Bialowas, Business Central Team Leader at Dynaway and MVP, join this episode directly from day 2 of BC TechDays 2024. We discuss news and highlights of the confer...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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14:21
Adrian Mouat, James Spurin and Nigel Poulton - Docker Captains Summit 2024
Adrian Mouat, James Spurin and Nigel Poulton join to discuss the 2024 Docker Captains Summit in Lisbon, what we have seen and heard and how we expect that to impact the future
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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18:17
Vivian Voss - DynamicsMinds 2024 and co-creation in Power Apps
Vivian Voss, freelance Solution Architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP, joins the show to talk about the second year of DynamicsMinds in Portoroz, Slovenia, as well as a couple of topics around the Power Platform like co-creation, pr...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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31:16
Ralf Richter - Event Driven Architecture
Ralf Richter, Distinguished Cloud Consultant at shiftavenue and Community hero, comes on the show to discuss everything around Event Driven Architecture. We start with an overview and typical scenarios, look into differentiation from other arch...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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50:32
Josh Anglesea - Integrating Canvas Apps into Business Central and the broader Power Platform integration picture for BC
Josh Anglesea, Systems Architect at Xpedition and Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, joins this episode to talk about the integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft Power Platform. We take a look at the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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35:46
Jacob Winther and Mike Borg Cardona - Artifical Intelligence in Business Central
Artificial Intelligence is by far the most dominant topic in IT currently. In this episode, Jacob Winther, Design Lead for Business Central, and Mike Borg Cardona, Product Manager for everything productivity in Business Central, join the show t...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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40:25
Christian Heide Damm and Esteban Ardaya Heckl - Business Central Online scalability and reliability
A lot of customers and partners are working on and with Business Central Online every day, but why and how can it handle that load and get amazingly close to 100 % availability? In this episode, Christian Heide Damm, Cloud Architect and Esteban...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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31:30
Shannon Mullins, Dmitry Katson and Steve Chinksy - Day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023
Shannon Mullins, Dmitry Katson and Steve Chinksy talk about their highlights of day 1 at Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon: Of course, a lot of AI and Copilots, but also the scale of Business Central Online, the new partner programs announced by Mic...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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30:30
Carme Cortada, Leen Everaerts and Patrícia Maia - Women in Dynamics on Day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023
Carme Cortada, Leen Everaerts and Patricia Maia join this episode recorded on day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon. We talk about Women in Dynamics, how and why it was started, what the goals are and how it is progressing. We also talk about t...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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14:59
Nigel Poulton and Timo Stark - DockerCon 2023
Recorded on the afternoon of day two of DockerCon 2023 in Los Angeles, Docker Captains Nigel Poulton, best-selling author and trainer, and Timo Stark, Software Engineer at Nginx, join this episode. We talk about the highlights and announc...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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34:30
Urs Enzler - The problem with software development effort estimation
Urs Enzler, software architect, shares his insights about the challenges with software development effort estimation. We talk about general aspects, we dive a bit into diseconomy of scale and complexity, we detour into monoliths vs. microservic...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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43:08
Bert Verbeek and Luc van Vugt - 2023 BC TechDays
Bert Verbeek and Luc van Vugt, both Dynamics 365 Business Central MVPs working for 4PS, join another "live" episode from the BC TechDays. We talked about the highlights of the day, the news of the keynote, the impact of Artificial Intelligence ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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19:39
Jens Møller-Pedersen and Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan - How the BC backlog is managed
Jens Møller-Pedersen, Engineering Manager, and Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager, join the podcast in this episode to talk about how they shape the future of the parts of Business Central they are responsible for. We talk about...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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51:39
AJ Ansari and Waldo - VS Code in the browser (for BC)
Sparked by a Twitter discussion, AJ Ansari, COO at DSWi and Eric "waldo" Wauters, Partner at iFacto, join this episode to discuss the opportunities, but also challenges if we had a way to use VS Code in the browser for BC. We discuss the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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37:11
Luise Freese and Ralf Richter - Azure Developer Community Day 2022
On this episode recorded in the Microsoft Germany headquarter in Munich, I am joined by M365 princess Luise Freese and Ralf Richter, one of the founders of the Azure Developer Community Day. We talk about the highlights of this first in-person ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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20:57
Michael Irwin - All things Docker, Wasm and Windows Constainers
Michael Irwin, Sr. Manager DevRel at Docker and former Docker Captain, joins in this episode to talk about where Docker as a company and as an Open Source contributor is right now and shares his thoughts on Kubernetes and container orchestratio...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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28:02
James Crowter and Torben Kragelund - Day 3 of Directions EMEA 2022
On the 3rd episode from Directions EMEA 2022 in Hamburg, organizers James Crowter and Torben Kragelund are joining the podcast to share their highlights of this years conference, what happens behind the scenes, thoughts on the keynotes and comm...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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26:48
Luise Freese and Jeremy Vyska - Day 2 of Directions EMEA 2022 (and a lot else)
On day 2 of Directions EMEA 2022, Luise Freese and Jeremy Vyska again join live in Hamburg and we discuss the highlights of day 1 and 2. But very quickly we go quite far off topic and have good fun with it. We talk about the differences between...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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32:18
Tatjana Pupko, AJ Ansari and Krzysztof Bialowas - Day 1 of Directions EMEA 2022
Tatjana Pupko, AJ Ansari and Krzysztof Bialowas join this episode directly from Directions EMEA 2022 in Hamburg to discuss their highlights of day 1. AJ missed the keynote while being stuck in the elevator, but we still managed to talk about it...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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40:00
Thanks to Søren Alexandersen and lovo.ai!
This is a very brief episode where I want to say thank you to Søren Alexandersen for an amazing intro and outro, and to lovo.ai for the generated spoken voice!
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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2:40
Eva Dupont - Documentation and community contributions
Eva Dupont, master of all things Business Central documentation, joins in this episode to talk about running an open documentation repository with a focus on community contributions. She explains how and why we all benefit if the community beco...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:30