Inside Microsoft’s Secret to Scaling New Ideas W/ Taylor Black
What does it really take to turn bold ideas into real impact inside one of the world’s largest technology companies?In this episode of Engineering in the Loop, Alec Harrison sits down with Taylor Blac...
17 Dec 202529min
AI, Turkey, and Catching Up
In this episode Alec and Brian talk about AI, turkey, and AI turkey?
29 Nov 202548min
From 11 Nested For-Loops to AI-Driven Engineering — A Conversation with Zure CEO Sakari Nahi
Alec welcomes Sakari Nahi, CEO of Zure, for a fun and thoughtful discussion that spans 25 years of tech evolution. Sakari shares how a single C# book jump-started his career, why he left a job he didn...
17 Nov 202542min
Be Useful — And Pivot: Cory House on Specialization, AI, and Staying Valuable
Cory House (Pluralsight/DomeTrain author and principal at ReactJS Consulting) shares the story of going “all-in” on JavaScript/React and how that focus grew into a successful independent consulting an...
9 Nov 202552min
Certs, Copilot, and Code: From Microsoft Learn to Speech-to-Infrastructure
Alec Harrison and Brian Gorman return from a short break to talk all things certifications, Copilot, and the curious evolution of learning with AI. Alec shares his experience taking Microsoft’s new Ap...
2 Nov 202535min
Force Multipliers, Not Magic: Javier Lozano on AI & .NET
Founder of .NET Conf and 20-year Microsoft MVP Javier Lozano joins Engineer in the Loop to talk about what’s changed—and what hasn’t—in web development. We riff on MVP categories, why demos are easy a...
27 Okt 202539min
Platform > Servers: Elliott Leighton-Woodruff on Landing Zones, FinOps, and Real-World Cloud Tradeoffs
From Exchange 2003 to Azure landing zones, Elliott shares 15 years of lessons on moving beyond VMs, building platform ops that devs actually love, and keeping cloud costs sane.Key TakeawaysPlatform en...
3 Okt 202552min
