Chris Pietschmann
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Chris Pietschmann

Chris Pietschmann is a Microsoft MVP (since 2008), HashiCorp Ambassador, IBM Champion and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) with 25+ years of experience designing and building Cloud & Enterprise systems. He has worked with companies of all sizes from startups to large enterprises. He has a passion for technology and sharing what he learns with others to help enable them to learn faster and be more productive.  
Microsoft MVPMicrosoft MCTHashiCorp Ambassador 2025IBM Champion 2026

766 articles 4 books

Internet of Things

Top 5 IoT Messaging Protocols

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions employ some kind of messaging protocol for each individual IoT device to communicate in the system. These messaging protocols are…

Jan 21, 2022 4 min read
Azure Management

Python Scripting in the Azure Cloud Shell

Did you know the Azure Cloud Shell includes support for Python? You can write Python scripts, save then, upload, and run them directly within the…

Oct 15, 2020 2 min read
Development

VS Code Gets Linux ARMv7 and ARM64 Support

With the release of the v1.50 (September 2020) update of Visual Studio Code comes official support for Linux ARMv7 and ARM64. This means that Microsoft…

Oct 12, 2020 1 min read
Development

Azure DevOps Outages: October 7, 2020

Azure DevOps was down yesterday due to an Azure Front Door (AFD) related issue. Today, Microsoft has been experiencing a series of “Service Disruptions” with…

Oct 7, 2020 2 min read
NVidia Jetson

NVIDIA Releases Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit

NVIDIA released a lower cost 2GB version of the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Development Kit that also includes Wifi. This new Jetson Nano Developer Kit is…

Oct 5, 2020 3 min read
Microsoft Edge coming to Linux
Linux

Microsoft Edge Browser Coming to Linux

Microsoft has been increasingly supporting Linux, and the latest application coming to Linux is the Microsoft Edge web browser. About a year ago we saw…

Sep 23, 2020 1 min read
Azure Bicep

Azure Bicep Roadmap Q4’20 into 2021

Microsoft recently released the first preview of the Azure Bicep project which provides a new, more intuitive language for building out infrastructure as code deployments…

Sep 17, 2020 1 min read