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There are a handful of people worth watching at Microsoft conferences - no matter what they're doing. My list is: * Anders Hejlsberg * Mark Russinovich * Sco
by AaronFriel 12y ago
There are a handful of people worth watching at Microsoft conferences - no matter what they're doing. My list is:
* Anders Hejlsberg
* Mark Russinovich
* Scott Hanselman
They have the clout and the job security to speak their mind - and they do. They all work on neat projects and are interested in talking about the internals. I saw Mark at Build this year and his talk was about the "fails" of Azure. It was an honest breakdown of how they've had failures that have taken down customers, taken down Microsoft services, and hurt the reputation of Azure.
I've followed Mark's blog since before he became a Technical Fellow at Microsoft, and he deserved it, no doubt. Very few people could write or speak with such precision about the internals of Microsoft kit. His interviews on Channel9 are all fascinating, before Azure he did work on the NT Kernel (and who knows what else) and he spoke candidly about dealing with issues scaling up the operating system. He has given interviews solely about removing global locks from the kernel, because that's his domain and he's good at it. If that reminded me of anyone else, it would be Linus Torvalds and his intimate knowledge of the Linux kernel.
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- gavinpc 12y ago> Very few people could write or speak with such precision about the internals of Microsoft kit Indeed, he "wrote the book" on it, which is apparently freely available as PDF now [1]. As someone who knows nothing about OS's, I picked up a cheap copy out of curiosity, and found it highly readable and enlightening (until it got rained on somewhere around chapter 10). EDIT: Do you have a link to the "fails" talk? I've been using Azure for the last few months and have been extremely impressed so far. [1] https://www.google.com/#q=windows+internals+russinovich+pdf https://www.google.com/#q=windows+internals+russinovich+pdf
- chubot 12y agoList of Mark's videos, including that one: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Speakers/Mark-Russinovich http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Speakers/Mark-Russinovich Thanks for the reference -- always interested in watching frank talks about software failure.
- rpowers 12y agoI have to agree that Hanselman is one of the best speakers.
- msrx 12y agoCan't believe you put Scott in the same bucket as Anders and Mark. There are many more insightful and innovative people (including other Technical Fellows) at MS Research and MS itself that are worth following. Scott Hanselman's role is generally evangelizing existing technologies.
- shanselman 12y agoIS that my role? O_o
- markjbrown 12y agoheh, funny :)
- guiambros 12y agoDon't mean to hijack the thread, but Scott, any plans to bring back This Developer's Life? It was (is?) one of the best dev podcasts out there. ps: hope the things shared in the one before last episode are now completely over. My best wishes.
- AaronFriel 12y agoI'll let shanselman's response to your first sentence stand on its own :) Regarding other people, certainly many are worth following. It'd be remiss not to mention Erik Meijer's group or the work done by others in MSR. They make for great Channel9 videos and great papers when they publish. But when I go to or watch a MSFT conference, those 3 are the top names I look for. Fair enough?
- selimthegrim 12y agoWhat on earth is Erik Meijer doing these days? I always used to enjoy his educational rants about Java and standard OOP.
- amaks 12y agoAccording to his Linkedin page, he's a founder at http://www.applied-duality.com/ http://www.applied-duality.com/.
- girvo 12y ago> Anders Hejlsberg Gosh I have such a nerd crush on him. Easily my favourite language designer, by far. I wish I could be him, and funnily enough am learning language design outside of work, but I highly doubt I'll ever be as good!