Window on Technology

Send us Fan MailAgustín Leyenda Duarte, Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Jeremy Vyska, Solver at Brightcom, and Jesper Schulz-Wedde, Principal Engineer at Microsoft, join the show to talk about BCQuality (https://github.com/microsoft/BCQuality). They share what made them create it, what the influences for it were, what they are currently working on and when real uptake by Business Central partners can start. We also discuss they impact they hope or expect to have with it on the community and how everyone can contribute to make it better.

Send us Fan MailFreddy Kristiansen, Owner at Freddy.DK, joins the show to discuss BC TechDays and OpenClaw. He shares his view on the conference and what differentiates it from others. Then we dive into OpenClaw, where it comes from, what it does, how disruptive it's impact can be and what the future outlook might be.

Send us Fan MailRachel Profitt, Principal Progam Manager at Microsoft, David Lorenzo López, Power Platform Lead at Prodware, Jose Martinez Lago, Power Platform Solution Architect at BE-Terna and Rex de Koning, Cloud Engineer at InSpark, join the show to discuss DynamicsMinds: Why it so special, why all of us love being here, the highlights of the program (including the keynote) and some community appreciation

Send us Fan MailAreti Iles, Head of Professional Services at Telefónica Tech’s AI Business Solutions division, and Magnus Sørensen, Principal Specialist at Context&, join the show to discuss AI, but not for the usual "what's new, what's exciting" story, but we dive into other aspects: How AI changes the way developers work, how that change can be managed, what the impact is on learning and where legal and compliance comes in

Send us Fan MailVivian Voss, freelance Solution Architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP, joins the show to talk about how AI is impacting the maker / citizen dev story in the Power Platform. We go from the technical side to the impact on people and she gives an outlook into how she sees this evolve in the future

Send us Fan MailPauline Kolde, Partner, Benedikt Bergmann, Founder & CEO and Björn Zahnow, Partner, all from CRMK Germany, join the show to discuss what it means to found a Consultancy company, why they did it and how it worked for them. They also share what is special in their culture, what they would suggest to others thinking about founding and of course where they see the impact of AI

Send us Fan MailAndrew Wingate, Business Central Practice Director at Venture, and Jeremy Vyska, Solver at BrightCom Solutions, join the show to discuss the Nubimancy Project (https://nubimancy.com/). We go from what it actually is, where the name comes from and who benefits from understanding it through the plans they have for evolving the project to contribution and collaboration opportunities. If you heard of it or saw it somewhere and were wondering what it actually is, this is the episode for you!

Send us Fan MailJeremy Vyska, Solver at BrightCom Solutions, and Steve Endow, Owner at Blue Dragonfly, join the show to discuss AI-assisted coding in general and with a focus on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We talk about where they both started their journey on the topic, how they use it now on a day-to-day basis and how they benefit from it. We go through adoption challenges and strategies, learn about best practices and recommendations and hear where they expect the topic to go in the future. In the end, Steve also shares what it means to debug a vibe-coded PTE.

Send us Fan MailShannon Mullins, Andy Wingate and Jeremy Vyska talk about their highlights of day 1 at Directions EMEA 2025 in Poznan: Of course, a lot of AI, but also the conference in general, the new BC logo announced by Microsoft and a lot more.

Send us Fan MailJeremy Vyska, Solver at BrightCom, and Tine Staric, Software Architect at Companial, join this episode live from BC TechDays 2025. We discuss our highlights of the conference and what is special about BC TechDays

Send us Fan MailJohan Persson, Senior Specialist at Engage Group, and Laze Janev, D365 F&O Solution Architect at Rexel, join the show at DynamicsMinds 2025 to discuss the current state of Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. We look at the history of the product and how it evolved over the years, they share insights on typical customers and implementation challenges and we discuss how continuous upgrades influence the whole approach. Then we dive a bit into the Power Platform integration and even briefly touch upon the impact of AI in F&O. Johan's blog and podcast can be found at https://blog.johanpersson.nu/

Send us Fan MailJonas Melgaard, Solution Architect for D365 and Power Platform at the Nordic Investment Bank, joins the show from DynamicsMinds 2025 to discuss Infrastrcture as Code at a financial institution. We look at the basic ideas and why they matter and the impact of AI, but mainly discuss the differences in the financial industry. You can find Jonas at https://melgaard.nu/

Send us Fan MailTaylor Brown, Group Program Manager at Microsoft, joins the show to discuss Windows containers. We discuss the origins and development of Windows containers, as well ass their impact on Microsoft's services and the broader tech community. He emphasizes the importance of open source collaboration and the integration of Windows containers with Docker, which paved the way for Microsoft's improved relationship with open source projects. He shares recent advancements in Windows containers include enhanced stability, performance, and interoperability with Linux containers, benefiting large-scale services like Microsoft 365. Taylor gives some insights into ongoing projects like the integration of eBPF and the potential of WebAssembly as well as why and how people should learn about Windows containers.The links for learning and getting started for Windows containers that he mentioned are https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/paths/deploy-manage-monitor-wincontainers-aks/ and https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/windows-server/blog/containers and you can find him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorbro

Send us Fan MailFreddy Kristiansen, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, joins the show from MVP Summit in Redmond to discuss DevOps in general and specifically AL-Go for GitHub as well as some container topics. We talk about the history and recent developments in AL-Go including security topics, why it has become so important for Microsoft and a lot of BC partners as well as the outlook on containers for BC. We also touch upon NuGet for BC and how the BC DevOps story compares in the context of the rest of the industry. 

Send us Fan MailKennie Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, joins the show while at the MVP Summit at the Microsoft headquarter in Redmond to discuss reporting and analytics in Business Central. We start from the history and the evolution in the last couple of years before we dive into the most recent changes including how AI influences the whole story. Kennie then shares how Analytics Views came to live, how he thinks about and prioritizes new features, what the approach on breaking changes is and why he cares so much about samples and documentation. In the end he shares what the BC team is currently doing and why you can find him at almost all BC conferences.

Send us Fan MailJesper Schulz-Wedde, Principal Software Architect at Microsoft, joins this episode to discuss the origin, the current state and the future of the Dynamics 365 Business Central co-creation initiative. This Open Source program has changed the way the application code of the product evolves, but that hasn't happened over night. Jesper shares the motivation, the obstacles and why it is beneficial both from a Microsoft and a partner perspective.

Send us Fan MailCarme Cortada and Søren Friis Alexandersen join in another episode recorded directly at Directions EMEA to discuss Diversity in Dynamics, formerly known as Women in Dynamics. We discuss the recent change towards a broader focus on Diversity in general, why and how that happened and what it means for the organization in the future. We also talk about ways to get involved and why now is a great moment to do so. Last but not least Søren talks about his own story and why he shared it via a blog post on diversityindynamics.org

Send us Fan MailShannon Mullins, Björn Zahnow and Mats Necker join this episode directly at Directions EMEA in Vienna to discuss community events. They discuss the challenges this brings, the dos and don'ts for speakers, how Microsoft influences things in our ecosystem and the events they like most. And of course they touch upen Directions EMEA itself

Send us Fan MailMarco Heimeshoff, trainer, speaker and software developer, joins the show to discuss Domain-Driven Design. Where does it come from, why does it matter, how can you implement it and how can you get started with it. He also shares his community activities like the KanDDDinsky conference and the Virtual Domain-Driven Design Community at VirtualDDD.com

Send us Fan MailThorsten Hans, Senior Cloud Advocate at Fermyon, Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, joins the show to discuss WebAssembly in general and specifically the news around Spin and SpinKube. We discuss when to use Spin, what the CNCF contribution of SpinKube means and what the future could bring in the WebAssembly world. 

Send us Fan MailNatalie Karolak, Product Architect at COSMO CONSULT and MVP Alumni, and Krzysztof Bialowas, Business Central Team Leader at Dynaway and MVP, join this episode directly from day 2 of BC TechDays 2024. We discuss news and highlights of the conference, of course touch on AI and explain why we all like the conference so much.

Send us Fan MailAdrian Mouat, James Spurin and Nigel Poulton join to discuss the 2024 Docker Captains Summit in Lisbon, what we have seen and heard and how we expect that to impact the future

Send us Fan MailVivian Voss, freelance Solution Architect and Microsoft Business Applications MVP, joins the show to talk about the second year of DynamicsMinds in Portoroz, Slovenia, as well as a couple of topics around the Power Platform like co-creation, pro-code support and the dynamics in fusion teams

Send us Fan MailRalf Richter, Distinguished Cloud Consultant at shiftavenue and Community hero, comes on the show to discuss everything around Event Driven Architecture. We start with an overview and typical scenarios, look into differentiation from other architectural approaches, discuss drawbacks and adoption best practices and close it off with real life examples and some misconceptions. Ralf also shares the idea of his latest podcast Decode AI. 

Send us Fan MailJosh Anglesea, Systems Architect at Xpedition and Microsoft MVP for Business Applications, joins this episode to talk about the integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Microsoft Power Platform. We take a look at the overall picture and then dive into the details of the possibilities to integrate Canvas Apps into Business Central (see https://joshanglesea.wordpress.com/2024/02/29/business-central-embedded-canvas-app/ for Josh's original blog post on that topic). In the end, Josh also shares the recent AI advancements that came to the Power Platform.

Send us Fan MailArtificial Intelligence is by far the most dominant topic in IT currently. In this episode, Jacob Winther, Design Lead for Business Central, and Mike Borg Cardona, Product Manager for everything productivity in Business Central, join the show to discuss AI in Business Central. We start by talking AI in general and how it will impact all of us, then we look deeper into the recently introduced AI functionality in Business Central, including the new prompt dialog and the Business Central Copilot. Jacob and Mike also share their learning curve on AI and what they see coming next.

Send us Fan MailA lot of customers and partners are working on and with Business Central Online every day, but why and how can it handle that load and get amazingly close to 100 % availability? In this episode, Christian Heide Damm, Cloud Architect and Esteban Ardaya Heckl, Principal Software Engineer, both working on the Business Central team, join the show to give us a look under the hood. We talk scalability and how the service reacts to increasing load, and also what happens if an issue appears and how it is mitigated.

Send us Fan MailShannon Mullins, Dmitry Katson and Steve Chinksy talk about their highlights of day 1 at Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon: Of course, a lot of AI and Copilots, but also the scale of Business Central Online, the new partner programs announced by Microsoft and a lot more.

Send us Fan MailCarme Cortada, Leen Everaerts and Patricia Maia join this episode recorded on day 1 of Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon. We talk about Women in Dynamics, how and why it was started, what the goals are and how it is progressing. We also talk about their T.H.I.S framework (check out https://www.womenindynamics.org/ to find out more) and what Dynamics partners should do to become a more diverse and inclusive environment.

Send us Fan MailRecorded on the afternoon of day two of DockerCon 2023 in Los Angeles, Docker Captains Nigel Poulton,  best-selling author and trainer, and Timo Stark, Software Engineer at Nginx, join this episode. We talk about the highlights and announcements of DockerCon, discuss Wasm and it's impact, sprinkle in some Kubernetes and end with why we loved the event.

Send us Fan MailUrs Enzler, software architect, shares his insights about the challenges with software development effort estimation. We talk about general aspects, we dive a bit into diseconomy of scale and complexity, we detour into monoliths vs. microservices and what the differences between estimation of projects and products are. In the end, Urs shares his idea for how we can at least try to approach the problem.

Send us Fan MailBert Verbeek and Luc van Vugt, both Dynamics 365 Business Central MVPs working for 4PS, join another "live" episode from the BC TechDays. We talked about the highlights of the day, the news of the keynote, the impact of Artificial Intelligence on development and developers and what else was interesting.

Send us Fan MailJens Møller-Pedersen, Engineering Manager, and Kennie Nybo Pontoppidan, Principal Program Manager, join the podcast in this episode to talk about how they shape the future of the parts of Business Central they are responsible for. We talk about how they decide what to do (and what not to do) and when to do it, how to figure out how much effort something takes and why that isn't as important as you might think and how the organization and work approach is set up.

Send us Fan MailSparked by a Twitter discussion, AJ Ansari, COO at DSWi and  Eric "waldo" Wauters, Partner at iFacto, join this episode to discuss the opportunities, but also challenges if we had a way to use VS Code in the browser for BC. We discuss the scenarios that would be unlocked, but also how it might cause problems. In the end, we briefly dive into how it might help to attract more people to a development career with Business Central. We also somewhat diverge into topics like citizen developers and "proper development process". Unfortunately, in some place, we lost audio for a couple seconds each, sorry for that.

Send us Fan MailOn this episode recorded in the Microsoft Germany headquarter in Munich, I am joined by M365 princess Luise Freese and Ralf Richter, one of the founders of the Azure Developer Community Day. We talk about the highlights of this first in-person iteration of the event and learn a bit about the background and the amount of work that Ralf puts into organizing it. We also discuss why and how putting a bit of code into low-code/no-code makes sense, what the actual story for the Power Platform should be and how it looks like from the perspective of a pro developer.

Send us Fan MailMichael Irwin, Sr. Manager DevRel at Docker and former Docker Captain, joins in this episode to talk about where Docker as a company and as an Open Source contributor is right now and shares his thoughts on Kubernetes and container orchestration. Then we go into WebAssembly, one of the most interesting tech topics at the moment and how it relates Docker and also discuss Windows containers. In the end, he shares how he made the whole Docker company sing "Happy Birthday" for his kids.

Send us Fan MailOn the 3rd episode from Directions EMEA 2022 in Hamburg, organizers James Crowter and Torben Kragelund are joining the podcast to share their highlights of this years conference, what happens behind the scenes, thoughts on the keynotes and community in general as well as the new Directions community portal. We also discuss the upcoming extension of the Days of Knowledge format and how that fits into the BC conference landscape.

Send us Fan MailOn day 2 of Directions EMEA 2022, Luise Freese and Jeremy Vyska again join live in Hamburg and we discuss the highlights of day 1 and 2. But very quickly we go quite far off topic and have good fun with it. We talk about the differences between Directions EMEA as a partner event and other more community-driven events, we discuss the Directions community portal unveiled today, talk about Open Source, in-public development and how to benefit from that. I also pick Luise's and Jeremy's brains about standard, ISV development in the Power Platform and they share their experience with Microsoft and community speakers at Directions.

Send us Fan MailTatjana Pupko, AJ Ansari and Krzysztof Bialowas join this episode directly from Directions EMEA 2022 in Hamburg to discuss their highlights of day 1. AJ missed the keynote while being stuck in the elevator, but we still managed to talk about it, including the expanding Business Central horizon with the Power Platform, D365 Sales and Shopify integration as well as the Women in Dynamics initiative. We also talk about the challenges in attraction young talent into our community and briefly touch upon CI/CD and DevOps. And in the end, we figure out that Directions EMEA, Directions NA and Directions ASIA are all different, but great (and Krzysztof has a master plan to visit them all, including an accidental 10-day trip to Hawaii).

Send us Fan MailThis is a very brief episode where I want to say thank you to Søren Alexandersen for an amazing intro and outro, and to lovo.ai for the generated spoken voice!

Send us Fan MailEva Dupont, master of all things Business Central documentation, joins in this episode to talk about running an open documentation repository with a focus on community contributions. She explains how and why we all benefit if the community becomes more active with contributions to the documentation, she shares her thoughts on what makes a good pull requests, how she would run documentation as a partner and she provides insights into how it all works behind the scenes. In the end, she also explains what her recently started new role is.

Send us Fan MailOn the second "live" episode from the 2022 BC TechDays, AJ Kauffmann and Michael Megel join the podcast to talk about their highlights and insights from the conference. We discuss their experience during their own workshops, concerns about the change adoption speed in our community, and of course, we celebrate the amazing TechDays conference.

Send us Fan MailEric "Waldo" Wauters and Luc van Vugt join this "live" episode to talk about the first session day at the 2022 BC TechDays. We talk about the content, mainly in the keynote, about the impact the news will have on our community and the tech stack that we use and we also discuss why BC TechDays is such a special conference. 

Send us Fan MailMagnus Mårtensson, CPO at Devoteam, Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, joins in this episode to talk about Azure. But not the typical "tech stuff", instead what else you need to consider and manage when you move to Azure. We go from people to finance, security and compliance and also discuss how to continue innovating once you made the switch. In the end, he tells the story about his moniker, "noop man".

Send us Fan MailIn the very first episode, Freddy Kristiansen, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft in Copenhagen, is sharing his thoughts on CI/CD and containers for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. We go from the basics through steps to implementing CI/CD to the latest additions in preview and even the disclosure of a brand-new feature that hasn't been discussed outside of Microsoft yet! Then we talk about what Microsoft is using internally and what the ecosystem can expect in the future. And just when we thought we were done, we also briefly touched on creating good bug reports. 

Send us Fan MailThis is the trailer episode for "Window on Technology", explaining what I want to do in this podcast