How I try to keep up with technology
Technology
is changing in a very fast pace. If we look at Microsoft technologies like
Azure, you see changes every week. Because of this I get a lot of questions
from clients and colleagues how I keep up with all the changes and new
functionalities.
Podcasts
As a
consultant I travel a lot in my car, while traveling I’m almost always
listening to a Podcast. For this I use a tool called “Pocket Cast” that I
control via Android Auto in my car.
The
Podcasts that I listen to now are:
- Azure Friday Podcast
- The Azure Podcast
- Azure Flash News
- DevOps Radio
- Arrested DevOps
- .Net Rocks
- The Cloud Cast
- MS Dev Show
- Coding Blocks
- DevOps.fm
- The Cloud Architects Podcast
- Radio TFS
- Azure DevOps Podcast
Reading
Besides
listening to podcasts I read a lot of books and articles. For this I use my
e-reader that is stacked with a lot of e-books. Besides that, I sync blog
articles to the devices by using Pocket.
To get a
good overview of the blog posts that I read I use a tool called “Feedly” (https://feedly.com/i/welcome) with feedly you get a good overview of the
articles that are new and also mark them as read. On my mobile device (Google
Pixel 2) I use the feedly native application for when I’m not working on my laptop.
On my Windows 10 device I use the application Nextgen Reader.
The blogs
that I follow are:
- Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades
- Coding Blocks
- Blog posts – Codit
- eBook Deal of the Week :: Microsoft
Press Store - Scott Hanselman's Blog
- Networking Blog
- Microsoft – TechCrunch
- Born to Learn
- Jeremy Thake’s musings - Medium
- Microsoft Edge Blog
- The AI Blog
- Microsoft Research
- Microsoft Azure Blog
- ZDNet
- Stories
- Channel 9
- Colin's ALM Corner
- Azure DevOps Blog
- Van
Haren Publishing | BLOG –
(Dutch) - Henry Been
- Visual Studio Geeks
- A Developer’s Life
- DevOps in action
- Oren Novotny
- MackBytes
- Willy[-Peter] Schaub
- Scrum Bug
- Darren's Blog
- Sound Code - Mark Heath's Blog
- Azure service updates
- Build Azure
- AzureBarry
- Cloud for the win!
Other sources
As a consultant
I have access to the Microsoft Advisors channel were we receive information and
notification about new functionalities in Azure or Azure DevOps. Next to these
source I have access to all the training material of Microsoft as a certified
trainer. My skillpipe account is full of books (MOC) that I read to stay up to
date and certified.
Recommendation
If you have
any recommendation on podcasts or blogs that I should follow please let me know.