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EPISODE · Jul 30, 2025 · 48 MIN

Matthew Dowst talks about PowerShell, Python, writing books and more

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In this episode of "Inside IT Automation" we speak with Matthew Dowst. Matthew is a Managing Consultant for Quisitive (formerly Catapult Systems) and the lead architect for their managed automation team. He has spent the last 10 years working  extensively with PowerShell to help clients of all sizes automate  their production workloads. In addition, Matthew is very involved  in the PowerShell community, writing blogs, authoring modules, and participating in online forums. He is also the creator  of the PowerShell Weekly newsletter, a weekly roundup of that week’s PowerShell news. He is the author of the book "Practical Automation with PowerShell". In our conversation he talks about his IT automation journey, PowerShell stories, why building blocks are important for successful automation, the process of writing a book about PowerShell, Python, AI and more. 

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