Daniel Scott-Raynsford (DSR) is a Senior Partner Solution Architect for Data & AI at Microsoft with 25+ years of experience, specializing in Azure, cloud-native SaaS architectures, DevOps/AIOps, and agentic AI systems.
Carlos Mendible is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft who writes in-depth, hands-on guides about Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Generative AI, focusing on real-world cloud automation and architecture.
Simon Waight is a software developer and technical blogger who writes about Microsoft developer events, GitHub Copilot, AI applications, and modern web development with practical insights for developers.
Aidan Finn is a Microsoft Azure MVP with nearly three decades of experience in IT, specializing in Microsoft infrastructure, cloud architecture, and secure Azure solutions. Through his company Cloud Mechanix, he delivers real-world training and consulting based on hands-on experience, and regularly shares independent, opinionated insights with the global Microsoft community.
Tomas Petricek is an assistant professor at Charles University in Prague and a partner at fsharpWorks, specializing in programming systems, functional programming, and the history and philosophy of computing.
Ned Bellavance — Veteran IT professional and founder of Ned in the Cloud, creating courses, podcasts, and technical content on cloud and infrastructure.
Jacob Tomlinson writes about Python, open-source development, GitHub Actions, automation, and best practices for software maintenance.
Marko is a full-stack software developer with 20 years of experience, specializing in serverless architectures on AWS, Node.js/TypeScript, React, and SQL/DynamoDB optimization.
Gergely Orosz analyzes real-world tech industry issues, from Cloudflare outages and dependency risks to return-to-office trends, sharing practical insights on software engineering, reliability, and modern tech culture.
Drew DeVault’s blog features sharp commentary on open source, software engineering, programming languages, ethics in tech, and the social impact of technology.
Jeff Atwood — Software developer, writer, and entrepreneur best known as co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network, and co-founder of Discourse, writing about software development, community building, and the human side of programming.
Simon Willison — Independent developer and writer documenting practical experiments, tools, and deep analysis around large language models, generative AI, web development, security, and emerging programming workflows through detailed posts and daily TILs.
Brent — Curator of Stitcher’s Community Feed, a community-driven, hand-curated content aggregator highlighting thoughtful, high-quality writing from across the web. The feed focuses on software engineering, open source, web development, infrastructure, and the human side of building technology. Readers can browse recent picks, follow via RSS, or contribute their own suggestions.
SebastianRaschka.com is the personal blog of Sebastian Raschka, PhD, an LLM research engineer whose work bridges academia and industry in AI and machine learning. On his blog and notes section he publishes deep, well-documented articles on topics such as LLMs (large language models), reasoning models, machine learning in Python, neural networks, data science workflows, and deep learning architecture. Recent posts explore advanced themes like “reasoning LLMs”, comparisons of modern open-weight transformer architectures, and guides for building, training, or analyzing neural networks and model internals.
Tlakomy.com is the personal blog of Tomasz Łakomy, a Senior Frontend Engineer, tech speaker, and egghead.io instructor who is currently working on Cloudash, a serverless monitoring tool. On his blog he shares notes and deep dives about AWS, serverless architectures, AWS CDK, Lambda, DynamoDB, AppSync, GraphQL, TypeScript, and frontend development, always with a practical and friendly tone.
SimonWillison.net is the long-running blog of Simon Willison, a software engineer, open-source creator, and co-author of the original Django framework. He writes about Python, Django, Datasette, AI tooling, prompt engineering, search, databases, APIs, data journalism, and practical software architecture. The blog includes detailed notes from experiments, conference talks, and real projects. Readers will find clear explanations of topics such as LLM workflows, SQL patterns, data publishing, scraping, deployment, caching, and modern developer tooling. Simon also publishes frequent micro-posts and TIL entries that document small discoveries and tricks from day-to-day engineering work. The tone is practical and research oriented, making the site a valuable resource for anyone interested in serious engineering and open data.
