Land of champions

July 26, 2007

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Magnifico has done it again. He's taken a superhit from Animals - House of the rising sun, and made one hell of a version out of it. Here's the video. I know the song is not really that new, but I just heard it for the first time today and had to blog about it. Right, off to writing the next post.

Reflecting on the first ~20 years of my career

I was part of the Microsoft layoffs in June 2023. While I was initially upset with it, and particularly with how it happened (though I can't share details), it turned out to be one of the more positive things that happened for me recently. You see, I was

Dec 14

Building Products at Scale - Platform and Reliability Team (Part III)

This is the third instalment on building products at scale. Part 1 covered the backlog & refinement sessions, and Part 2 covered the planning. Now, let's get back to engineering, and discuss how to support the process. If you’re still following, what we have now is: * Regular

Feb 9

Interacting with Dataverse data from Azure & C#

In this blog post, we'll cover an interesting topic that came up as part of my contributions to the Microsoft Disaster Response (MSDR) effort. With the Ukraine war, one of the biggest challenges for the rest of the world is displaced people. The Microsoft MSDR contribution provided some

Jan 12

Building Products at Scale - Release Trains (Part II)

In Part I [https://www.vodovnik.com/2022/07/08/how-id-build-products/], we ended up with a well-defined product backlog. Our Engineering Team can go into their Sprint Planning with a list of well-refined list of User Stories and plan their sprint. However, the Engineering team does not live in a

Jul 18

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