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

755 articles 4 books

Cloud

Accelerate Your Multicloud Security Strategy

Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud strategies—leveraging a mix of cloud service providers such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—to…

Dec 2, 2024 13 min read
Artificial Intelligence

Design of Intelligent, Multi-Agent AI Systems

Intelligent multi-agent AI systems stand out as a robust solution for solving problems requiring modularity, scalability, and specialized expertise. The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence…

Nov 25, 2024 16 min read
Cloud

Microsoft Fabric vs Azure Service Fabric: Understanding the Differences

Microsoft Fabric and Azure Service Fabric share the term "Fabric" but serve different purposes. Microsoft Fabric is a unified data platform for analytics and integration, while Azure Service Fabric focuses on managing scalable microservices applications. Despite the shared name, they cater to distinct audiences and functionalities within the Microsoft ecosystem.

Nov 24, 2024 3 min read
Azure Management

New Microsoft AI Shell Public Preview

During Microsoft Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced the public preview of AI Shell, a groundbreaking innovation that integrates artificial intelligence directly into command-line workflows. With this…

Nov 20, 2024 3 min read
Artificial Intelligence

Introducing the new Azure AI Agent Service

Azure AI Agent Service is designed to revolutionize the development and deployment of these AI agents, delivering an enterprise-ready solution tailored to meet the unique…

Nov 19, 2024 4 min read
Azure Data & Storage

Azure Cosmos DB: Understanding Partition Keys

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service designed to meet the demands of large-scale, low-latency applications. One of the most critical design…

Oct 29, 2024 10 min read
DevOps

Terraform Functions and Expressions Explained

Functions in HashiCorp Terraform are integral to making your configurations flexible, efficient, and maintainable. They are pre-defined operations that can be used within expressions to…

Aug 9, 2024 13 min read
HashiCorp Terraform

Terraform vs OpenTofu: What’s the difference?

What’s the difference between HashiCorp’s Terraform and OpenTofu? This is a tale that starts with HashiCorp first developing Terraform, the popular open source, multi-cloud, Infrastructure…

Aug 7, 2024 6 min read