Dylan McCarthy

It has been a tough few months for me outside of my professional life, but tonight I got an email that helped things feel better. I'm excited and honoured to announce that I've been renewed into the Microsoft MVP program for a second year. I've also been added to the DevOps category :)

Airport breakfast, on the way to San Diego #DevOpsCon! Looking forward to speaking about Platform Engineering and Developer Experience. #mvpbuzz

Today brought back a lot of bad memories.

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Start of a big day, 2 Global Azure talks and then helping out at a hackathon after

Going on soon for Global Azure Auckland to talk about Minimal IDPs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPCG...

Then at Global Azure Melbourne in person to talk about Microsoft DevBox Team Customisations

#mvpbuzz #globalazure

I had such an amazing time at #NDCMelbourne this year, between presenting my own talk and catching some more amazing sessions I totally forgot to take any photos.

Thanks to the @ndcconferences.com crew for running a great event!

I'm also having a good result with Claude 3.7 but have found the newer OpenAI models are struggling to follow instructions in agent mode, they often respond like they are in ask mode then you have to prompt them to actually do something.

I think you might have caused the pages to be out of order by observing the system, check again later, it might have changed 😛

Yeah I've been using it a bit and you definitely need to give it a clear end goal and even provide context on what kind of things it should and shouldn't do. Won't replace a good engineer but will let someone who can clearly define the problem offload a task to AI.

On the way home from #MVPSummit. It has been an amazing week but also pretty overwhelming. Glad I got to catch up with fellow MVPs and the teams at Microsoft. Now to just get through this 15 hour flight then sleep for 24 hours.

All checked in for day one (well technically pre-day one)

Ok now in Seattle, and it's raining and cold ... This is amazing! just like winter in Melbourne (my favorite time of year). Though the surge pricing on the uber put a dampener on that, but you can't win them all. Now it's time to fall into a coma after 24 hours of travel.

Just finished my long haul, wasn't the best, power issues with the seat power, glitches with the entertainment system and a fair bit of turbulence half way through. The flight attendants were great though. Now just waiting for the flight to Seattle.

Breakfast before the big flight to MVP Summit, so excited for the week to come! #mvpbuzz

I've been trying to get back to streaming this year but it has been hard. Was diagnosed with ADHD recently so been going on that journey which takes a lot of the time I would use to stream. Still trying to share blogs and do talks as that is why I share things, to help uplift and educate others.

But it just feels secure, you know what I mean?

Awesome I'll be there as well :)

Looking forward to Green Day tonight 😎

So it's been a slow start to the year for me but finally starting to get some things moving, first off it's a new blog page.

www.dylandevex.dev

I wanted to rebrand a bit from the dmcasaservice to Dylan DevEx, as it's a bit closer to what I talk about.

Ooh fancy, be keen to see how it is working

Designing and Implementing Platform Engineering - Training This learning path provides a comprehensive guide to designing and implementing platform engineering within modern enterprises. It covers the foundational principles, strategic alignment with business...

Microsoft Learn have released a new learning path for "Designing and Implementing Platform Engineering" - This path covers the principles of Platform Engineering, and how you can build platforms that enhance DevEx, operational excellence etc. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... #MVPBuzz

Happy new year everyone, wishing for a great 2025 for all

Have been giving multiple internal sessions at work on Microsoft DevBox and how we can use IaC to not only deploy the service but also do image customisation. Most stuff is positive but man I cannot wait until the new custom image creation options are in, using AIB is a pain.

I'm going to be speaking at NDC Melbourne 2025, where I'll be talking about Cloud-Native Platform Engineering on #Azure! If you're a Platform Engineer looking to build scalable, sustainable, and enjoyable experiences for your developers on Azure, I'll see you there! ndcmelbourne.com/slots/cloud-...

Excited to share that I'll be presenting at @ndcconferences.com in Melbourne next year!!

ndcmelbourne.com/slots/platfo...

Well looks like my trip to Singapore has ended on a slightly down note, caught COVID-19 on the way back. I think I'm going to need to get some more comfortable masks to wear while travelling more.

Day 2 of DevOpsCon, had a great panel session on AI that I was invited to participate in. Lots of engineers want to do more with AI but just don't know where to start or how best to use the tools.

Ok Day 1 at DevOpsCon Singapore, excited to present at 11:30

Well they can't make it easy for you? Nothing like getting off an international flight then having to get on a train to get to your connecting domestic flight

Off to my first international conference, also first time speaking at an international conference. Next post hopefully from Singapore :)

I would recommend Azure Container Apps, you don't have to use all the features so it can be good for just a simple frontend + backend.