Washington state is about to ban noncompete agreements. The state's House and Senate have both signed the bill, and it's headed to the governor's desk. Washington would join a short list of states that prohibit almost all noncompetes.

I have opened a new feature request that I think might be useful github.com/Azure/bicep/... #Azure #AzureBicep

Working on a complex expression in a Bicep template. It's so great to call Microsoft Docs MCP to let the agent learn about a function and then combine it with best practices tools from GitHub Copilot for Azure. #bicep #infrastructureascode #githubcopilot

Microsoft Build keynote will start soon! Join my Bicep session afterwards at 11:35 in Hub Theater A. I’m giving away a few copies of my book! 💪 DEM539 @microsoft.com #MVPbuzz #Bicep

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Next release of Bicep will have experimental DSCv3 support! github.com/Azure/bicep/... This is just the first of many steps, but you can now author DSCv3 config using Bicep (don't try loops, won't work). There's still lots of work left to have more natural integration including intellisense.

I always found the term “DevOps” to be kinda dumb, so it sure was nice of them all to rebrand as “Platform Engineering.”

Looking forward to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Summit this week on Microsoft's campus where I'll deliver a fun talk looking back at Azure's history and forward to where it's heading. If you're an MVP, see you Thursday!

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

Export as Bicep is fully available today! 💪 Test it out yourself in the portal, instructions can be found here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

Export as Bicep is available on the Azure Portal! 💪 🔗 Read more on Export as Bicep here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/... #azurebicep #mvpbuzz

🚀 new blog post! I explored how to use Bicep for Graph resources, which makes deploying and managing Microsoft Graph resources as code easier. 🔗 Check it out: msftplayground.com/2025/01/bice... Let me know what you think! 👇 #Bicep #MicrosoftGraph #Entra #Azure #DevOps

Azure Bicep fail() function explained cloudadministrator.net/2025/02/10/a... #Azure #AzureBicep #DevOps

Excited to announce the launch of #AzureNetAppFiles (#ANF) #Terraform #AzureVerifiedModules (#AVM)! Powered by #AzApi, this solution offers speed and agility, enabling rapid feature additions as per the ANF team's updates. 👍 registry.terraform.io/modules/Azur...

Exciting News! 🚀 Announcing #Terraform #Azure Verified Modules for Platform Landing Zone (ALZ)! 🎉 • Modular Deployment • Improved Reliability • ALZ IaC Accelerator Updates Blog: aka.ms/alz/tf/avm/b... Join our next community call on Jan 29, 2025: aka.ms/ALZ/Community #ALZ

never change, Microsoft

This advice is timeless. Just shared it with a new team member.

The Park City ski patrol strike is over. The workers got every major item they wanted from Vail Resorts. -Starting wages up by $2/hr. -Senior workers get pay raised by as much as $7.75/hr. -Better parental leave and professional development. -A better wage scale and more.

The Department of Transportation is fining JetBlue $2 million for "chronically delayed" flights on the East Coast. It's the first time the DOT has fined an airline for delays on specific routes due to "unrealistic" scheduling. Half of the fine will go to affected passengers.

Watch me demo the latest version of the GitHub AT-AT at the Azure Terraform Community call! You too can Automate the Automation with Terraform!!! youtu.be/OpPK1B3Clsk?...

Here's a repo that shows some the main prompt and some examples follow up prompts to run on a data set github.com/davidfowl/Re.... I have the nodejs input dataset and output csv checked in. The tool to produce the data set isn't uploaded as yet.

💪 Azure Bicep - December - Final Community Call of 2024! ➡️ 0.31 Release ➡️ 6 month roadmap ➡️ Version pinning for Bicep ➡️ User-Definted Types with variable access ➡️ Community requested updates 🔗 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy_U... 🔗 Join Bicep Users LinkedIn Group: tinyurl.com/bicepusers

Starting in 10 minutes - see you there!

Our final Bicep Community Call of 2024 will be TOMORROW, Thursday December 5th at 9am PST! Join to hear our roadmap for the next 6 months and some exciting demos and presentations! Reach out for an invite if you did not receive one, or join tomorrow at aka.ms/BicepCcD24!

Jeff Bezos makes over $14,000 in the span of time that a worker earns 50 cents.

If you are using Azure Bicep modules from a container registry then check out this share by @rios.engineer. Very useful to quickly see if the modules you use can be updated! #MVPBuzz #bicep #AzureVerifiedModules #azure

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This weeks #azurebicep ‘Did you know?’ Is live. Get AVM notifications when modules are out of date via the bicepconfig file! Check it out: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

At the risk of reading too much into Bluesky’s success at the moment, I do think it’s a signal that people don’t want to be surrounded by bots and manipulated algorithms AI can only go so far. We want human connection.

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