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Michael Nygard advises consulting firms, private equity teams, CTOs, CEOs, and boards when they require senior technology judgment for limited-term, high-impact situations — including architecture assessment, platform rescue, cloud and data cost intervention, AI engineering enablement, technical diligence, divestiture and carve-out architecture, and operating-model redesign. Over a 35-year career, he has worked at the seam where people, processes, organizations, and the systems they build intersect. Most organizations treat those as separate problems. The hardest failures, and the most consequential wins, live precisely where they interact. That through-line is what Release It! is fundamentally about. The vocabulary it introduced — circuit breakers, bulkheads, stability patterns — is now standard in how the industry discusses reliability, and the book is widely cited as foundational to DevOps and cloud-native practice.

At Nubank, he led the Data Business Unit with over $300 million in annual spend, then served as Chief Architect with reach across 2,500 engineers while the customer base grew from 75 million to 125 million across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. Results included cutting data-platform spend roughly 50% year-over-year, improving on-time data availability past 99%, building governance aligned with LGPD, GDPR, and CCPA, moving team engagement from the bottom decile to the 60th percentile, and rolling out AI coding tools to more than 90% of engineers without customer-visible quality regression.

At Sabre, as part of the CTO office, he helped lead development-practice modernization, GCP migration strategy, mainframe offload architecture, technical diligence, and divestiture architecture across thousands of applications and hundreds of products. He is most effective when the stakes are real, the system is sociotechnical, and the solution must hold across architecture, execution, economics, and organizational behavior.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtnygard/
Personal Blog & Website: https://www.michaelnygard.com
GitHub: https://github.com/mtnygard Twitter/X: https://x.com/mtnygard
Release It! (Pragmatic Programmers): https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know (O'Reilly): https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/97-things-every/9780596800611/
Goodreads Author Page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6089.Michael_T_Nygard
LinkedIn Articles: https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/mtnygard Presentations Archive: https://github.com/mtnygard/presentations/wiki

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Brady Gaster is a Principal PM Architect at GitHub, where he works on Apps, Agents, MIDI, and most notably, Squad — an open-source framework for orchestrating AI agent teams with GitHub Copilot. A longtime contributor to the .NET ecosystem, Brady previously served as Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team, leading work on SignalR, Orleans, microservices, and HTTP APIs.

He is the co-creator of Squad, which allows developers to define a team of specialized AI agents that collaborate on real engineering work.

When he's not building developer tools, Brady enjoys making music in his basement with synthesizers and guitars, and spending time with his two sons.

Website / Blog: https://bradygaster.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/bradygaster
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradygaster/
Twitter/X: @bradygaster

Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:
Episode 102 — Brady Gaster on SignalR and More 
Episode 221 — Brady Gaster: Orleans 
Episode 295 — Brady Gaster: .NET Cloud Native 
Episode 331 — Brady Gaster: Upgrading .NET apps 

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Matthew Renze is an AI researcher, consultant, and author, and the founder of Renze Consulting, where he has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals worldwide. He has delivered over 200 keynotes, presentations, and workshops on every continent — including Antarctica — for clients ranging from tech startups to Fortune 500 companies. A nine-time Microsoft MVP in AI, Matthew is also the president of the Renze AI Research Institute, where he studies how self-reflecting large language model agents improve problem-solving performance, trustworthiness, and value alignment. Most recently he was accepted into the Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University, and he featured as an interview subject in the 2026 documentary "AI Everywhere."

Website: https://matthewrenze.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewrenze/
Twitter/X: @matthewrenze
GitHub: https://github.com/matthewrenze (via profile links)

Our OpenClaw agent ("Bob") - Bob's website: https://bobrenze.com/
- Bob's blog: https://blog.bobrenze.com/
- Bob's book: https://a.co/d/014kieQI
- Agent ranking site: https://agentfolio.io/

Stage 1 - Communicating in steps with an AI assistant
- ChatGPT - https://chatgpt.com/
- Claude Chat - https://claude.ai/

Stage 2 - Collaborating on tasks with an AI agent
- GitHub Copilot - https://github.com/features/copilot
- Claude Code - https://claude.com/product/claude-code
- OpenAI Codex - https://openai.com/codex/

Stage 3 - Supervising processes with an agentic workflow
- LangChain / LangGraph - https://www.langchain.com/langgraph
- Microsoft Agent Workflows - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/workflows/

Stage 4 - Managing a project with an autonomous agent
- OpenClaw: https://openclaw.ai/
- Hermes: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/

Stage 5 - Leading a mission with an autonomous agency
- PaperClip AI: https://paperclip.ing/

Fireworks AI: https://fireworks.ai/

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Previous Appearances on the Azure & DevOps Podcast:

Episode 44 — Matthew Renze on Data Science for Developers https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/matthew-renze-on-data-science-for-developers-episode-44

Episode 220 — Matthew Renze: Developing Your AI Strategy https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/matthew-renze-developing-your-ai-strategy-episode-220

Episode 249 — Matthew Renze: AI Ethics https://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/ai-ethics-with-matthew-renze-episode-249

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Tamir Dresher is a Principal Engineer at Microsoft Threat Protection, where he focuses on scaling AI agent systems and distributed architectures, bringing over 15 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems. He is the co-creator of Squad, an open-source multi-agent runtime for GitHub Copilot that orchestrates AI teams directly inside your repository. Tamir is the author of "Rx.NET in Action" (Manning) and "Hands-On Full-Stack Web Development with ASP.NET Core" (Packt), and has been a lecturer in Software Engineering at the Ruppin Academic Center since 2013. A prominent figure in the Israeli and international developer communities, he is a Microsoft MVP alumnus who speaks frequently at global conferences and writes actively on his blog at tamirdresher.com.
Website / Blog - https://www.tamirdresher.com/ 
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamirdresher/
GitHub: https - //github.com/tamirdresher
Twitter/X - @tamir_dresher
Blog Post - https://www.tamirdresher.com/blog/2026/05/24/squad-watch-extensions-customer-success
Github - https://github.com/bradygaster/squad

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Erik Darling makes your database faster in exchange for money. He is a DBA, developer, and architect with a track record of tackling even the most challenging of technical issues. He runs a SQL Server Consulting and Coaching practice. In addition to his consulting services, he is also passionate about blogging, training, and contributing to open-source projects that help with SQL Server troubleshooting. He's given many public speaking engagements on the topic at conferences and events around the world, like PASS Summit and SQLBits.

Website - https://erikdarling.com/
Twitter - https://x.com/erikdarlingdata
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/ErikDarlingData
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/darling-data/
LinkedIn 2 - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-darling-data/
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@darling.data
BlueSky - https://bsky.app/profile/erikdarling.com

Trainings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeYBdghaIjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-l2PxUidI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uikbtpVZS2s
https://db.cs.cmu.edu/seminar2022/

Previous Guest on the Azure DevOps Podcast: 
Episode 315 – Erik Darling: Database Technical Debt 

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