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

753 articles 4 books

Azure IoT

Azure IoT Developer Kits (AZ3166) Have Arrived

The Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible Internet of Things (IoT) board with quite a few sensors, buttons, and display all built-in. The…

Oct 4, 2017 2 min read
Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure gets a new Logo and a Manifesto

Out of the MANY different announcements made today is included the fact that Microsoft has created a new logo for the Microsoft Azure cloud. The…

Sep 25, 2017 1 min read
Azure Management

Azure Regions and Availability Zones

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]For a long time, since the beginning of Microsoft Azure, the most granular control you could have for choosing…

Sep 22, 2017 4 min read
Azure Integration

What is Azure Event Grid?

Azure Event Grid is a messaging service built to enable event-based architectures to be built more easily. At the basic level it’s similar to a…

Aug 24, 2017 4 min read
Microsoft Azure Functions
Azure Compute

Scaling Azure Functions with Durable Functions

Serverless compute is the latest advancement in Platform as a Service (PaaS) capabilities in the cloud. Azure Functions is the Serverless Compute service options available…

Aug 15, 2017 8 min read
Azure IoT

Azure IoT Developer Kit Ready for Pre-Order

The new Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit board is pretty amazing! It is Arduino compatible and includes many sensors, buttons, and an OLED display all…

Aug 11, 2017 2 min read
Azure IoT

Azure IoT Developer Kit: Sensor Overview

The Microsoft Azure IoT Developer Kit is an Arduino compatible board built for helping with prototyping Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. The key difference with…

Aug 8, 2017 6 min read
Azure IoT

Raspberry Pi Device Simulator for Azure IoT

One of the long time frustrations with Raspberry Pi development is that you needed a physical device and hardware (sensors, buttons, etc) to fully develop…

Aug 2, 2017 2 min read
Arduino

Programming Arduino with Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform, Node.js-based IDE (Integrated Development Environment). It’s been maturing into a really amazing development tool. It’s not really the…

Aug 1, 2017 2 min read
Azure Hybrid

Microsoft Azure Stack is ready to Purchase!

In the early days of Microsoft Azure, back in 2010 when it was called Windows Azure, Microsoft had announced plans to make the Azure services…

Jul 11, 2017 2 min read